UK GK 2023

Q 1.Henry VIII had two of his wives executed, Anne Boleyn was one, can you name the other?

Show Answer Answer:-Catherine Howard

Q 2. Which animal can deliver a kick capable of killing a lion and also attacked singer Johnny Cash leaving him adicted to painkillers?

Show Answer Answer:-An ostrich (Cash was kicked and wounded by an ostrich he kept on his farm)

Q 3. According to the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, what kind of food is eaten tomorrow, yesterday, but never today?

Show Answer Answer:-Jam

Q 4.Which 2004 American drama film starring Sandra Bullcok and Matt Dillon shares its name with the collective noun for a group of rhinos?

Show Answer Answer:-Crash

Q 5.Four of the five Olympic rings are green, blue, red and yellow, which colour is the fifth ring?

Show Answer Answer:-Black

Q 6.What name is given to a cage or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering?

Show Answer Answer:-Gabion

Q 7.Which actress sang the song “Team Work” with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the 1962 film The Road to Hong Kong?

Show Answer Answer:-Joan Collins

Q 8.What do galena and a Cluedo murder weapon have in common?

Show Answer Answer:-Lead (the mineral galena is a lead ore, and the weapon is lead piping)

Q 9.What is the Swahili word for ‘journey’?

Show Answer Answer:-Safari

Q 10.True or False. The catchphrase “Beam me up, Scotty” has never been said in any Star Trek TV series or film?

Show Answer Answer:-True, it has never been said. (The closest Kirk ever came to saying that phrase was in Star Trek IV: The Journey Home, in which he says, “Scotty, beam me up”.)

Q 11. What is the stage name of singer Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta ?

Show Answer Answer:-Lady Gaga

Q 12. Which continent has the largest Catholic population?

Show Answer Answer:-South America

Q 13.The M90 motorway is the most northerly motorway in the United Kingdom; which city is at its northern end?

Show Answer Answer:-Perth

Q 14.What does the word ‘pont’ mean in both French and Welsh?

Show Answer Answer:-Bridge

Q 15.Which American crime drama starring Alice Braga as Teresa Mendoza shares its name with the nickname of a Scottish market town?

Show Answer Answer:-Indonesia

Q 16.Which hospital is the the oldest in Britain? Above its entrance is the only public statue of King Henry VIII in London.

Show Answer Answer:-St Bartholomew’s Hospital, commonly known as Barts.

Q 17.Which American university awards the Pulitzer prize?

Show Answer Answer:-Columbia

Q 18.Which country do swallows migrate to when they leave Britain for the winter?

Show Answer Answer:-South Africa (and Namibia)

Q 19.Which slogan, used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of a non-violence ideology, was coined by the American beat poet Allen Ginsberg? (Hint: It’s a two word slogan)

Show Answer Answer:-Flower Power

Q 20.Which animal is the symbol of the American Republican Party?

Show Answer Answer:-Elephant

Q 21.”When You Wish Upon a Star” is a song written for which 1940 film?

Show Answer Answer:-Pinocchio

Q 22.Including its claws, how many legs does a crab have?

Show Answer Answer:-10

Q 23.16th-century pirate Francis Le Clerc, nicknamed “Pata de Palo” by the Spanish, was the first modern era pirate to have what?

Show Answer Answer:-A peg leg (‘pata de palo’ is stick leg in English)

Q 24.At the 2017 Oscars, which actress incorrectly announced La La Land as Best Picture instead of the actual winner, Moonlight?

Show Answer Answer:-Faye Dunaway (she was given the incorrect envelope)

Q 25. Which city’s cathedral is the largest cathedral and religious building in Britain?

Show Answer Answer:-Liverpool’s (largest cathedrals in order: Liverpool, St Paul’s, York Minster and Lincoln)

Q 26.Which famous ship was named after the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in the Robert Burns’s 1791 poem Tam o’ Shanter?

Show Answer Answer:-Cutty-sark

Q 27. How many members were in the Monty Python team?

Show Answer Answer:-Six (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin)

Q 28.In which city was Boris Johnson born?

Show Answer Answer:-New York City

Q 29.Which member of the Beatles was walking barefoot over the zebra crossing on The Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover?

Show Answer Answer:-Paul McCartney

Posted

in

by

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You cannot copy content of this page