General Knowledge Quiz

Julius Cesar famously said "Veni, vidi, vici!" when he left Britain. What does it mean?

• Mud, rain and trouble

• I came, I saw, I conquered

• I loved, I lived, I left

• Cold, wet and miserable

• Tired, bored and hungry

The world's second tallest mountain, K2, lies on the border between which countries?

• India and Nepal

• India and Pakistan

• Nepal and China

• Pakistan and China

• China and India

Who invented the telescope?

• Galileo Galilei

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Ibn Battuta

• Nicholas Copernicus

• St Francis

Who wrote The Great Gatsby

• Stephen King

• Edgar Allen Poe

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Charlotte Bronte

• Charles Dickens

How many strands of hair do humans normally lose in a day?

• 80-220

• 20-80

• 100-200

• 10-50

• 50-100

Which option is worth the most?

• A penny that doubles every day for 30 days

• £5,000,000

• 10 Lamborghini Murcielagios

• 3 new houses of average price in London

• A 50 foot yacht

Which pair of cities is the furthest apart?

• Auckland and Manilla

• London and New York

• Paris and Moscow

• Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles

• Cairo and Cape Town

Which language has the highest number of native speakers?

• Hindi

• Spanish

• Arabic

• English

• Mandarin Chinese

Where was the game of chess invented?

• Afghanistan

• India

• Russia

• Egypt

• China

Where is the driest place on Earth?

• Death Valley, USA

• Atacama Desert, Peru

• McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Aoulef, Algeria

• Wadi Halfa, Sudan