GENERAL KNOWLEDGE PUB QUIZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. Which chess piece is known in French as a 'fou' - an idiot or madman?
   Bishop
   
   
2. The oldest of the five English horse racing classics, first run in 1776, is raced at Doncaster over 1 mile 6 furlongs and approximately 130 yards (127? 132?). Which is it?
   St Leger
   
   
3. In which country does one leu (plural lei) equal 100 boni?
   Romania
   
   
4. Bailey, Fitzroy (formerly Finisterre) Dover and Thames are all what?
   Meteorological sea areas around Britain
   
   
5. Smoke, weather vanes and umbrellas are referred to in what system of measurement?
   The Beaufort scale of wind force on land - weather vanes do not move in force 1 but smoke does, while umbrellas are difficult to use in force 6
   
   
6. Martin van Buren, William Harrison, John Tyler and James Knox Polk have been successive holders of which position of power?
   US Presidents numbers 8-11 (1837-1849)
   
   
7. The local name is Hayastan - by what name do we know it?
   Armenia
   
   
8. Pale, fess, bend, chief are all terms used in what?
   Heraldry (lines partitioning the field of a shield)
   
   
9. Martin Luther King (1964), UNICEF (1965), Amnesty International (1977), Médecins sans Frontières (1999) - what?
   Nobel Peace Prize winners
   
   
10. The Gog Magog hills lie just outside what town?
    Cambridge
    
    
11. The Inns of Court for England and Wales are the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Gray's Inn and which other?
    Lincoln's Inn
    
    
12. What single name links (1) Homer to (2) James Joyce and to (3) the victorious commander at both the Battle and the Siege of Vicksburg in the American Civil War?
    Ulysses (Greek hero; title of novel; Major General Ulysses S. Grant) Note that the Joyce link is valid despite the Homeric form Odysseus because Joyce deliberately echoes Homer