General 116788

General 116788 is a selection of 10 questions. General 116788 is the filename to differentiate it from other general knowledge quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.

1   What association is responsible for the erection and maintenance of buoys and lighthouses?
A   Trinity House – full name is ‘The Master, Wardens and Assistants of the Guild, Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond, in the County of Kent’

2   Which radio comedy series featured the characters “Moriarty, Eccles and Bluebottle?
A   The Goon Show

3   Which one of these is not a ‘Dandy’ character: Desperate Dan, Korky the Cat, Keyhole Kate or Pansy Potter?
A   Pansy Potter – The Beano

4   What number connects cheers, a page and suspended balls?
A   (3) Three (3 cheers, page 3 and pawnbrokers sign)

5   According to the advertising blurb, who is the patron saint of pipe smokers?
A   St Bruno – There is, in fact, a patron saint of tobacco, St Fiacre

6   What device, invented in the Middle East in 3000 BC, was the forerunner of the modern computer?
A   Abacus

7   Utopia is a real place Fact or Fiction?
A   Fact (Landing site on Mars for Viking 2 spacecraft)

8   ‘Barwick Green’, is which radio programme’s signature tune?
A   The Archers

9   Get Stuffed is the motto of the Society of American Taxidermists Fact or Fiction?
A   Fact

10   Who with his little eye saw Cock Robin die?
A   Fly – Who killed Cock Robin? I, said the Sparrow, with my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin. Who saw him die? C390I, said the Fly, with my little teeny eye, I saw him die.