General Knowledge Quiz - Easy

This is the first of three general knowledge quizes on the site. This one is easy, and for most questions, most people will not need to run to Google to get the answer. My apologies to non-UK perusers; this is aimed primarily at UK quiz fans. There is a link to the answers at the bottom of the page.

Questions

1. What surname links a former UK prime minister, a Beach Boy, a neighbour who is never shown clearly on a US TV sitcom, and the elderly neighbour of a rather badly behaved young boy as seen in a comic, a TV show and several films?

2. What range of household products is the Wirral town of Port Sunlight famous for?

3. What is the west country name for a small hill?

4. Who wrote the William Tell Overture?

5. What ill-fated short lived Soap Opera in the 80s and 90s shared the same name of a fictional city of gold in South America?

6. What word typically follows blue to name a type of whale, toffee to mean a snob or hard to mean of unrelenting toughness, usually in business?

7. Who wrote Bleak House?

8. Which US state is nicknamed the Lone Star state?

9. Mocca and Late are types of what?

10. What is the formal name of the Northern Lights?

11. Laxey, Port St Mary and Onchan are towns on which island?

12. The Marianne shrine of Lourdes is in which country?

13. What is the full name of the audio and video application for computers, commonly known as WMP?

14. What is the common name of the substance, H20?

15. Dundee, Eccles and Upside-Down, are all types of what?

16. Current Affairs : What type of enhanced raw foodstuffs were heavily criticised by the Prince of Wales in August 2008?

17. Cypress and Leylandii are sub species of which type of rapid growing tree?

18. Who is the current Chancellor of the Exchequer?

19. Which football ( soccer team ) play their home games at the Emirates Stadium?

20. What type of fruit is a Blenheim Orange?

21.Jack Spratt and his wife go to a caf� and ask for a bacon butty each, whose butty would still have the rind on?

22. Yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah but no etc, was uttered by a character in which TV comedy?

23. What is the post code for Buckingham Palace?

24. Which British actor starred in the films, The Long Good Friday, Mona Lisa, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

25. What brand of giant marshmallow comes to life in the first Ghost Busters film?

26. What is the name of the numbers game in which you have to fill a 9 x 9 grid with rows of numbers each containing the numbers 1 to 9?

27. According to Henry Ford, maker of the Model T, what colour could you have the car painted in?

28. Which famous exponent of Pop art created silk screen images of soup cans, coke cans and dollar bills?

29. What colour is created by mixing red and yellow?

30. In the Hobbit and then the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which character�s real or original name was Smeagol?

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