A Nice Easy Quiz

Buenchico | 19:43 Mon 20th Apr 2020 | ChatterBank

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Here's a nice, simple little general knowledge quiz that you might care to try if, like me, you're BORED, BORED, BORED! It's designed to start off really easy and get just a little bit harder as you work through it (which explains why I've dropped the multi-choice answer format for the last three questions).

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Q1: What is Boris Johnson's first name?
(a) Albert ;
(b) Alexander ;
(c) Gerald ;
(d) Jeremy.

Q2: All English banknotes bear the signature of the Governor of the Bank of England. True or False?

Q3: According to the Bible what does "Pride goeth before . . ."?
(a) destruction ;
(b) disappointment ;
(c) failure ;
(d) a fall

Q4: When VAT was first introduced in the UK in 1973, what was the standard rate that was then charged on most goods and services?
(a) 8% ;
(b) 10% ;
(c) 12½% ;
(d) 15%.

Q5: Approximately how high above the Earth's surface are the satellites that beam Sky TV transmissions into people's homes?
(a) 22 miles
(b) 220 miles ;
(c) 2,200 miles;
(d) 22,000 miles

Q6: Where would you find the Islets of Langerhans?
(a) in Scotland ;
(b) in the human body ;
(c) in Norway ;
(d) on the dark side of the Moon.

Q7: Where is/was Reality Checkpoint?
(a) in Berlin ;
(b) in Cambridge ;
(c) in Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22'
(d) in several works by Franz Kafka.

Q8: Cadet, Commerce, Convention, Nation and Rome are all . . . what?

Q9: Easter, Christmas, Cinnamon, Spider and Old Man are all . . . what?

Q10: Aside from all being listed buildings, what do the following all have in common? Edinburgh Castle, the Willis Insurance building (Ipswich), Tinside Lido (Plymouth), the BT Tower and Lichfield Cathedral.

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