Daily Quiz Daily

Our daily general knowledge quiz

Quiz Archive Archive

A complete history of our quiz challenges

By Subject Subjects

Choose from seven quiz categories

Personalised Personalised

Build a quiz by subject and difficulty

Daily Quiz #3373

General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 13 April 2018

A new general knowledge quiz is available every day. Try today's quiz or work through our archive of daily and themed quizzes.

0 out of ?

Q1. Which drink was originally made from the Smilax ornata plant?

A
Creaming soda
B
Coca Cola
C
Sarsaparilla
D
Birch beer
Select from the options above.

Q2. What strike of 1,400 women and girls was caused by poor working conditions in the Bryant & May factory in 1888?

A
Grunwick dispute
B
London matchgirls strike
C
Tonypandy Riot
D
Wapping dispute
Select from the options above.

Q3. Which of these is an island city-state and country?

A
The United Kingdom
B
Singapore
C
Madagascar
D
Java
Select from the options above.

Q4. The final of which sport at the 1900 Olympics in Paris attracted 6,000 spectators, the largest crowd at any event at that Olympics?

A
Rugby Union
B
1,000 metres
C
Marathon
D
High jump
Select from the options above.

Q5. The plant soleirolia soleirolii of the nettle family has a number of common names, including baby's tears, angel's tears, mind-your-own-business, peace-in-the-home, pollyanna vine, the Corsican curse and which of these?

Note: This question was updated in November 2022
A
Dingle Dell
B
Mother of thousands
C
Victoria's secret
D
Amberley grange
Select from the options above.

Q6. Which Greek poet (1200 - 850 BC) is famous for the poems popularly attributed to him about the siege of Troy and the wanderings of Ulysses?

A
Homer
B
Marge
C
Virgil
D
Alcibiades
Select from the options above.

Q7. In what long-running UK television documentary series have specialists Mick Aston, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding regularly appeared?

A
Coast
B
Time Team
C
The Tale of English
D
The Science of Stupid
Select from the options above.
0%
There are 0 questions in this quiz.
You've completed 0 questions.
You've answered 0 questions correctly.
You've answered 0 questions incorrectly.