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General Knowledge 130924 is a selection of 10 questions. General Knowledge 130924 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 If Monday’s child is fair of face, what is Tuesday’s child?
A Full of grace
2 What colour is the Circle Line on a London Underground map?
A Yellow
3 In which city is Warwick University?
A Coventry, on the outskirts of Coventry, not in the town of Warwick itself.
4 Which UK newspaper produces an annual Rich List of the thousand wealthiest people in the country?
A Sunday Times
5 Which Japanese car manufacturer has a big plant near Derby?
A Toyota
6 What is the name of a number one followed by one hundred zeros?
A Googol (this was Charles Ingram’s £1 million question)
7 In the classic UK Monopoly, how much does it cost to buy a railway station?
A £200 – The train stations on the UK Monopoly board are King’s Cross, Marylebone, Fenchurch Street, and Liverpool Street. These stations were all former London and North Eastern Railway terminals.
8 Who was the first female newsreader on BBC television?
A Angela Rippon (appointed in 1975)
9 The region of our solar system known as the Asteroid Belt, is mostly located between the orbits of which two planets?
A Mars and Jupiter
10 Which US magazine produces an annual ‘500’ list of biggest US companies based on gross revenue?
A Fortune