General Knowledge Quiz (Round 309)

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Questions:

1) 'Lordi' won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006 representing which country?

a) Denmark b) Norway c) Finland

 

2) Actor Nicholas Lyndhurst is best known for playing 'Rodney' in which English sitcom?

 

3) Which Lebanese-born British singer-songwriter had a 2007 UK number one with the song 'Grace Kelly'?

 

4) Which British monarch was known by the nickname 'Old Coppernose'?

a) Henry VIII b) George III c) Charles I

 

5) Which US born actor and playwright created and starred in the musicals Into the Heights and Hamilton?

 

6) Which social media platform is known in China as 'Douyin'?

a) Facebook b) Twitter c) TikTok

 

7) What colour is the star on the flag of Vietnam?

 

8) Who had 'gone to sea' with 'silver buckles at his knee' in the nursery rhyme of the same name?

 

9) Who starred as the title role in the 2019 film 'Joker'?

 

10) In which British city would you find the 'Serpentine Gallery'?

 

Answers:

1) 'Lordi' won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006 representing which country?

a) Denmark b) Norway c) Finland

c) Finland

 

2) Actor Nicholas Lyndhurst is best known for playing 'Rodney' in which English sitcom?

Only Fools & Horses

 

3) Which Lebanese-born British singer-songwriter had a 2007 UK number one with the song 'Grace Kelly'?

Mika

 

4) Which British monarch was known by the nickname 'Old Coppernose'?

a) Henry VIII b) George III c) Charles I

a) Henry VIII

 

5) Which US born actor and playwright created and starred in the musicals Into the Heights and Hamilton?

Lin-Manuel Miranda

 

6) Which social media platform is known in China as 'Douyin'?

a) Facebook b) Twitter c) TikTok

c) TikTok

 

7) What colour is the star on the flag of Vietnam?

Yellow

 

8) Who had 'gone to sea' with 'silver buckles at his knee' in the nursery rhyme of the same name?

Bobby Shafto

 

9) Who starred as the title role in the 2019 film 'Joker'?

Joaquin Phoenix

 

10) In which British city would you find the 'Serpentine Gallery'?

London