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General Knowledge Quiz 101 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who directed the 2003 film starring Ewan McGregor, Billy Crudup and Albert Finney called "Big Fish" ?
2. Where is the Lateran palace?
3. What is the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" ?
4. Two famous people with the homophone (same sound, different spelling) of boil and what as a name had a common interest in which area?
5. Which of these is a book by Dan Brown?
6. What was the name given to the irregular mounted troops raised for service in Cuba by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American war?
7. Who was Shakespeare's wife?
8. Where does the Black Current flow?
9. What is the name of the special type of glass in which champagne should be served?
10. What is the name for the vast flat lowlying grasslands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil?
11. Where is the palace called Istana Nurul Iman?
12. The northernmost point in South America is in which country?
13. The USA established marginal income tax rates of 77% in 1916 to fund the war effort in World War I. What were they reduced to by 1929, shortly before the Wall Street crash?
14. What is the source of the company name "Xerox" ?
15. Lake Titicaca is on which continent?
16. In the 2022 United Nations General Assembly, Russia's Foreign Minister described US response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine earlier that year as "grotesque" and an expansion of what 19th century (and current) US policy?
17. What is the character "George" from the UK TV series "Rainbow" ?
18. What was heavyweight boxer Joe Louis' nickname?
19. The fans of which band were called "deadheads" ?
20. What waxes and wanes every 28 days?
21. What Latin-American word means "foreigner" ?
22. In 1864, as retaliation for an incident the previous year which involved death or injury to about 5 Spanish citizens, Spain took the first tangible aggressive steps in what became what?
23. What is the Hindu custom "suttee" that was prohibited by law in 1829?
24. In the film "Scream", what was Drew Barrymore doing while she was on the telephone?
25. Which of these cult ideas first surfaced in 1987?
26. What is the smallest interval in European music, 12 of which make an octave?
27. What is somebody described as thrasonical likely to do?
28. At the 1896 Olympics, winners received a silver medal and second place received a bronze medal. In 1900, most winners received cups or trophies instead of medals. What present tradition was introduced at the 1904 Games?
29. The US television series "NCIS" (2003-now) focuses on criminal investigations involving what?
30. Who composed the music for the Tony and Olivier Award-winning "Billy Elliot:the Musical" ?
31. What is the technical description of the balsa tree?
32. Which river is most sacred to the Hindu religion?
33. What name was given to a narrative poem typically sung by trouvères (medieval minstrels)?
34. David Mamet's plays "American Buffalo" (1975) and "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1982) are set in what city?
35. Who was called "Hanoi Jane" after her activities during the Vietnam War?
36. Who became vice-president and then president of the USA without having been voted into either office?
37. Where is Dan Brown's book "Angels and Demons" mainly set?
38. What sport, the season for which is March to August, has been phased out in all states in Australia except for Victoria and South Australia, and was scheduled to end in Victoria after the 2010 season?
39. Who used to observe the Sarum Rite?
40. The skull can be divided into two parts:the cranium and what other part?
41. Which of these countries has a border with Hungary?
42. In June 2009, General Motors announced that it would sell which of its brands to Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, based in China?
43. What was the name given to the series of trials presided over by Judge Jeffreys after the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 when hundreds were put to death or transported to the colonies?
44. Which of these letters is not in the name of an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young?
45. Who directed the films "Clerks", "Mallrats" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" ?
46. In what game would a rook and a bishop associate to defend a king?
47. A "triple peel" is a manoeuvre that is common in what sport?
48. Which of the actors who portrayed Dr Who, famous from the UK TV series of the same name, appeared as the character almost exclusively on radio, film, written works, and comic strips?
49. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is run from where to where?
50. What is the simple past tense of the verb "swim" ?
51. Andy Schleck competed in what sport at an international level?
52. What was the popular name for the Paris prison at 232 Rue Saint-Antoine that was stormed during the French Revolution in 1789?
53. Who was the daughter of Mahomet and his first wife Kadijah?
54. Which of these events happened first in American history?
55. When SARS was discovered in 2003 it was only the third human coronavirus known, but by the end of 2012 a further three had been identified including one now known as MERS; what coronavirus is MERS most closely related to?
56. With which hip hop artists did Tupac Shakur record when he was 18 or 19, in 1990 and 1991, before he started his solo career?
57. What is an eye defect due to the abnormal formation of the cornea or lens resulting in an inability to see horizontal and vertical objects clearly, simultaneously?
58. What is the state motto of the US state of California?
59. The monumental book, "À la recherche du temps perdu", published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927, famously starts by referring to what?
60. Whose discovery, that there were other galaxies in existence besides the Milky Way, was announced in 1925?
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