Thursday General Knowledge Quiz
10 General Knowledge quiz questions to get you thinking.
QUESTIONS
1. Since 1975, the Tour de France cycle race always finishes in which city?
2. The Dacia car company, now owned by Renault, is originally from which country?
3. Keflavik Airport is in which country?
4. ‘Three Coins in the Fountain’ was a 1954 film which followed three American women who were working in which city?
5. Who wrote, ‘The Old man and the Sea’?
6. Paul Gauguin travelled to which island of French Polynesia in 1891 and famously painted the native women?
7. Literally translated as ‘the way of the gods’, what is the native religion of Japan?
8. What structure, made from glass and metal, is the main entrance to the Louvre in Paris?
9. According to an Australian song by Rolf Harris, what creatures pull Santa’s sleigh at Christmas to give the reindeer a rest?
10. Which Spanish city was famed for its steel and the swords forged from it, which were used by Hannibal to defeat the Roman legions, El Cid the Castilian knight, and have been used by royalty to knight people since the days of Christopher Columbus?
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ANSWERS
1. Since 1975, the Tour de France cycle race always finishes in which city?
PARIS
2. The Dacia car company, now owned by Renault, is originally from which country?
ROMANIA
3. Keflavik Airport is in which country?
ICELAND
4. ‘Three Coins in the Fountain’ was a 1954 film which followed three American women who were working in which city?
ROME
5. Who wrote, ‘The Old man and the Sea’?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
6. Paul Gauguin travelled to which island of French Polynesia in 1891 and famously painted the native women?
TAHITI
7. Literally translated as ‘the way of the gods’, what is the native religion of Japan?
SHINTO
8. What structure, made from glass and metal, is the main entrance to the Louvre in Paris?
PYRAMID
9. According to an Australian song by Rolf Harris, what creatures pull Santa’s sleigh at Christmas to give the reindeer a rest?
BOOMERS – slang for KANGAROO (Six white boomers is a song which tells how kangaroos lead Santa’s sleigh to deliver the toys, and they also help to deliver a baby kangaroo once their work is done)
10. Which Spanish city was famed for its steel and the swords forged from it, which were used by Hannibal to defeat the Roman legions, El Cid the Castilian knight, and have been used by royalty to knight people since the days of Christopher Columbus?
TOLEDO