Bill Turnbull
General Knowledge 8
ALL OF THE ANSWERS WILL HAVE A PLACE IN THEM (COULD BE VILLAGE TOWN CITY COUNTRY COUNTY STATE FORMER NAME OR AN AREA AND THERE ARE NO DUPLICATES)
1. Which playwright wrote Entertaining Mr Sloan and Loot and was later murdered by his lover -- Joe Orton
2. Who was the first Englishman to score in both an FA and European Cup Final -- Teddy Sheringham
3. Who is the heroine of the book Little Women -- Jo March
4. Who became the first Labour prime minister in 1924 -- Ramsey Macdonald
5. What role was played by Bella Enahoro in the TV series Pie in the Sky -- Cambridge (constable and later sergeant)
6. With what song did Frank Bruno get into the top thirty -- Eye of The Tiger
7. What is the Harlem Globetrotters theme tune -- Sweet Georgia Brown
8. Which admiral led the British to victory over the French in the 1798 Battle of the Nile -- Nelson
9. Which title character in a Daniel Defoe novel was born in Newgate Prison -- Moll Flanders
10. Who is the father of Lady Sarah Chato -- Lord Snowdon
11. Which actress played Harriett in Carry On Dick -- Barbara Windsor
12. Who was the first female presenter of Top Gear -- Angela Rippon
13. Who played Jesus Christ in the 1972 musical Godspell -- David Essex
14. What is the more common name of burned gypsum -- Plaster of Paris
15. Who played Liz McDonald in Coronation Street -- Beverley Callard
16. Who has managed both Newcastle and Middlesbrough -- Jack Charlton
17. What make and type of car was driven by William Conrad in the TV series Cannon -- Lincoln
18. Which great sprinter died after she suffered a seizure in 1998, aged only 38 -- Florence Griffith-Joyner
19. In which TV series would you find Spock, Hodge and Lloydy -- All Quiet On The Preston Front
20. What is the name of the woman's tennis circuit in the USA -- The Virginia Slims
21. Who was the Babe Ruth candy bar named after (nothing to do with baseball) -- President Grover Cleveland's daughter Ruth
22. What is the name of the substitute for silver invented by Thomas Bolsover in the 1740s -- Sheffield plate
23. When Queen Victoria became Queen who ceased to be Queen -- Adelaide
24. Which chart topping song begins with the words "it was a dream she had, in a scheme she had" -- China In Your Hand
25. What is the bark of the tree quercus suber called -- Cork
26. What was the first UK number one for Lonnie Donegan -- Cumberland Gap
27. What is the name for a five lined poem in which the first two and the last lines rhyme -- Limerick
28. Who was the first Englishman to be sent off in a rugby union International -- Mike Burton
29. Which pop artist painted Whaam! -- Roy Lichtenstein
30. Who played violin in the National Youth Orchestra, won Cambridge blues at cricket and rugby and captained England -- Tony Lewis
31. What was the name of the ship on which actress Gay Gibson was murdered -- S.S. Durban Castle
32. Fanny Price appears in which Jane Austen novel -- Mansfield Park
33. Which animals are sold at Bampton Fair -- Exmoor ponies
34. In which film did the Mental As Anything hit ‘Live It Up’ feature -- Crocodile Dundee
35. What was Charlie Chaplin's last film -- A Countess From Hong Kong
36. Which American president was known as the Hero of New Orleans -- Andrew Jackson
37. Who had a number one in the fifties with Only Sixteen -- Craig Douglas
38. What is the wine in a perigueux sauce -- Madeira
39. What building material was patented by builder Joseph Aspdin in 1824 -- Portland Cement
40. In which Paris square was the guillotine used during the French revolution -- Place de la Concorde
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