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General Knowledge Quiz 100 (60 MCQs)

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1. George Harrison was deported from which city where the early Beatles had long term engagements, because of his youth?
2. The northernmost capital city in South America is Caracas, Venezuela. Which capital is the next most northern in the continent?
3. Hazards created or used to challenge a golfer near the green where the ball needs to be sunk are bunkers (usually filled with sand), water such as lakes or rivers, and which else?
4. What was the first professional discipline in which English actor Idris Elba, known for his roles in the dark crime TV series "The Wire" and "Luther", trained on leaving school in 1988.
5. In the words of the song, who "spoke through tears of fifteen years how his dog and him travelled about. His dog up and died, yes he up and died, after twenty years he still grieved." ?
6. Who wrote the story on which Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film "The Birds" was based?
7. Where would tailings normally be found?
8. What is Kamchatka?
9. What is someone who makes or repairs stringed instruments called?
10. Who retained his title as the World Chess Champion after a challenge from Veselin Topalov in 2010?
11. Neil Oliver provides archaeological and social history knowledge for, and fronts, programmes for UK TV in Britain, continental Europe and Australia, called what?
12. The characters of Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, cousin Eustace and Reepicheep the warrior mouse appeared in which film released in 2010?
13. The islands Santa Ysabel, Choiseul, Guadalcanal, Malaita and San Cristóbal are in which group?
14. What system of rule is in place in Patagonia?
15. What sport is featured in "The Defense", a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1930?
16. What does the institution ECDC do?
17. From Bordeaux, France, which of these harbours on the other side of the Atlantic is closest to due west?
18. Who was on the throne when Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, was appointed?
19. What is an alchemist likely to be searching for?
20. In what type of music are "China type cymbals" usually played?
21. The Roman Empire was at its widest extent, including Dacia, Mesopotamia, Armenia and Assyria, under which Emperor?
22. Trypanosomiasis is an infectious disease spread by what?
23. What is a bylina?
24. Who wrote and directed the Bafta Award winning short film "Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life" (1993)?
25. What is the name of the official list of books prohibited to be read by the Catholic Church?
26. Which of these is the name given to a northern to north-eastern wind in the Adriatic, and in Croatia, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, and Turkey?
27. Which American screenwriter, producer, director, actor, author and editor, most productive in the 1950s, made "Plan 9 From Outer Space", "Glen or Glenda" and "Bride Of The Monster" ?
28. A constellation whose three main bright stars are called, sometimes, the Three Maries, the Three Kings, or Hap (mule deer), Haamoja (pronghorn), and Mojet (bighorn sheep), was known in Scandinavia as Freyja's distaff and now more generally as what?
29. In a 2009 film James McAvoy plays the role of private secretary to whom, played by Christopher Plummer?
30. A disaster which killed six million people in China in 1333-37 AD was caused by ..... ?
31. Where is Nouméa the capital city?
32. Which part of the world suffered from a drought (1276-99) together with rainfall which continued to be sparse and unpredictable until approximately 1450?
33. The Oath of Sarum sworn in 1086 was between "landowning men of any account" in England and whom?
34. The first series of which BBC sitcom series, set in Billericay, Essex and Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, chronicled the developing romance of the two leads and ended with their becoming Mr. and Mrs. Shipman?
35. The documentary film "This Is It" centred around the backstage preparations for a tour by which pop star?
36. Between April and July 1997 Andrew Cunanan killed 5 people (beginning with Jeffrey Trail in Minneapolis, David Madson, near Rush City, Minnesota, Lee Miglin in Chicago, William Reese in Pennsville, New Jersey) before shooting himself. Who was his 5th victim, shot in Miami Beach, Florida?
37. Who created the character of the detective priest known as Father Brown?
38. Which of these describes tuberculosis?
39. The record at the 1976 Olympics set by Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci of scoring a perfect 10 for 7 routines, was equalled in the 1988 Olympics by a gymnast representing which country?
40. Which might not fit into a vegan diet?
41. Which instrument originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian interpretation of a small guitar-like instrument taken there by Portuguese immigrants?
42. Its name means "red hero" and it is the largest, and capital, city of which country?
43. Which country participated in the Commonwealth Games for first time in 2010?
44. Who were Bert van Marwijk, Vicente del Bosque, Óscar Tabárez & Joachim Löw?
45. In May 1909, Oscar Slater was sentenced to death for murder and released in 1928 with £6, 000 compensation. People who campaigned for his release included William Roughead (who published his "Trial of Oscar Slater" in 1910), William Park (who published his "The Truth about Oscar Slater" in 1927) and which other author who published "The Case of Oscar Slater" in 1912?
46. What figure of Apollo stood from around 280 BC until destroyed by an earthquake around 224 BC?
47. In what town is the TV soap "Days of Our Lives" set?
48. Dracunculiasis is a disease caused by infection from what?
49. Who created and performed the most soundtracks for the film Wall Street:Money Never Sleeps?
50. When did the Goa'uld first appear in the US/Canada TV series Stargate SG-1?
51. Which of these countries is associated with the bagpipes?
52. Which snooker player, nicknamed "The Grinder", in 1980 became the first player from outside the United Kingdom to win the world snooker championship?
53. Which of these films was set in in World War II?
54. What was unusual about the catching of two examples of a species of fish, called the "Coelacanth", in 1938 and 1953?
55. What is a geographical character of the west coast of North America?
56. In the TV series "Madam Secretary" (2014-now) what organisation is the Secretary part of?
57. The phrase "up and under" is associated with which sport?
58. Duke Kahanamoku, who won Olympic gold in Swimming (100 m freestyle) in 1912 at Stockholm and 1920 at Antwerp popularised what sport?
59. Which of these ships is the largest?
60. The lychee is native to which area?
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