General Knowledge Quiz (Round 342)

Questions

1) Raised in Accrington as Margaret Anne Lake, she came to prominence when the National Lottery was televised in 1994. How is she better known?

2) Which dancer starred in the 1968 film ‘Finian’s Rainbow’?

3) In the term for computer codes representing alphanumeric characters, ASCII, what does the S stand for?

4) Which singer born David Robert Jones, died in 2016?

5) Which former footballer was named as the England Women's manager in 2018 despite controversy about his lack of experience of the women’s game?

6) Which university was founded first, Cambridge or Oxford?

7) Roger Bannister famously was the first to run a mile in under 4 minutes, but what became his occupation?

8) What did Colonel Von Stauffenberg fail to do in 1944?

9) From which TV series did the catch phrase ‘book ‘em Danno’ originate?

10) Which American folk singer died of a heroin overdose in 1970 aged just 27 years and 8 months?

Answers

1) Raised in Accrington as Margaret Anne Lake, she came to prominence when the National Lottery was televised in 1994. How is she better known?

Mystic Meg

2) Which dancer starred in the 1968 film ‘Finian’s Rainbow’?

Fred Astaire

3) In the term for computer codes representing alphanumeric characters, ASCII, what does the S stand for?

Standard

4) Which singer born David Robert Jones, died in 2016?

David Bowie

5) Which former footballer was named as the England Women's manager in 2018 despite controversy about his lack of experience of the women’s game?

Phil Neville

6) Which university was founded first, Cambridge or Oxford?

Oxford

7) Roger Bannister famously was the first to run a mile in under 4 minutes, but what became his occupation?

Doctor

8) What did Colonel Von Stauffenberg fail to do in 1944?

Assassinate Hitler

9) From which TV series did the catch phrase ‘book ‘em Danno’ originate?

Hawaii Five O

10) Which American folk singer died of a heroin overdose in 1970 aged just 27 years and 8 months?

Janis Joplin

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