The Jeans for Genes Secondary Schools
GENEral Knowledge Quiz 2008
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1. Which member of the Royal Family made a cameo appearance on Coronation Street’s
40th anniversary edition? Prince Charles
2. What is the connection between Manchester United and Peterborough United? Alex
Ferguson is the manager of MU and his son Darren is the manager of Peterborough.
3. Which English Queen had eleven fingers? Anne Boleyn
4. What links Perry Fenwick, Larry Lamb, Charlie Jones and Rita Simons? They all play
members of the Mitchell family in Eastenders
5. What is the name of the rebellious teenage daughter in ‘The Family’? Emily
6. Your jeans are made out of denim. But where was it first made? France, in a town
called Nimes
7. In science what do you call the asexual reproduction of a genetic carbon copy of an
animal or plant? Clone
8. Kate Winslet, Minnie Driver and Robert Carlysle have all played patients in which
medical drama? Casualty
9. Which swimmer with a restricted growth condition became the youngest ever Gold
medal winner at the Paralympics? Eleanor Simmonds
10. How many pairs of chromosomes does each person have? 23 pairs
CHILD’S PLAY
1. Name the 7 dwarves? Grumpy, Sneezy, Dopey, Bashful, Doc, Happy, Sleepy
2. How old has the ageless Bart Simpson been ever since the TV show began? 10
3. Which hero of science fiction has two hearts? Doctor Who
4. Which character in one of Roald Dahl’s children’s books was inspired by his now famous
granddaughter? Sophie in the BFG
5. Who owns the copyright of JM Barrie’s Peter Pan? Great Ormond Street Hospital
6. Which former Blue Peter presenter has a daughter whose hits include ‘Murder on the
Dancefloor’? Janet Ellis
7. Whose alternative career includes writing the children’s books The Adventures of Abdi
and The English Roses? Madonna
8. The Rubik’s Cube is one of the most popular toys on Amazon.co.uk. But what year did
Ideal Toys first launch it? 1980
9. Wall-E is the current box office smash form Pixar. But what does Wall-E stand for?
Waste Allocation Lift Loader, Earth class
10. The name of which enduring children’s toy translates as ‘play well’? Lego (from the
Danish Leg godt)
BLOCKBUSTER ROUND
1. What G is the name of the web’s biggest search engine? Google
2. What E does a praying mantis only have one of? Ear
3. Which N would you visit for a holiday in Hell? Norway
4. What E is the name of the spacecraft, that on 20th July 1969 landed the first man on the
moon? Eagle
5. In which R is a Muslim festival that takes place for an entire month in late summer each
year? Ramadan
6. What A was chasing pavements? Adele
7. What T does a Brownie jump over when she becomes a Guide? Toadstool
8. What I is the 6th colour of the rainbow? Indigo
9. What O played Legolas in the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Orlando Bloom
10. What N is the name of the dog in Peter Pan? Nana
THE X FACTOR
1. What sport is 'XC' a recognised abbreviation? Cross-Country
2. How old do you have to be to enter X Factor? 14
3. What medical discovery was the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen famous? Xrays
4. Before the current classification system, how old would you have to have been to watch
an X rated film? 18
5. Who is the presenter of the Xtra factor? Holly Willoughby
6. What are the two names of the character played by Hugh Jackman in the X Men films?
Logan / Wolverine
7. Which popular 90s TV show had a spin off film released this year called ‘I want to
believe’? X Files
8. Who are the four judges on the X Factor? Simon, Dannii, Cheryl, Louis
9. X was the name of the last album by which multi-million selling pop star? Kylie
10. If you added the number of celebrities in this year’s Strictly Come Dancing to the judges
in X Factor and subtracted the number of years that Big Brother has been on the air
what would you get? 16 + 4 – 9 = 11