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General Knowledge Quiz 106 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is prohibited by an unusual law that has been passed in Lanjarón, Spain, in three settlements in southern France:(Cugnaux, Le Lavandou & Sarpourenx), and has been proposed for Biritiba-Mirim, Brazil?
2. In 1998 the Group of Seven (G7), an informal forum for powerful governments, became the G8 when Russia joined the group, and then became the G7 again in 2014 with the suspension of what country?
3. Michelangelo is understood to have painted a self portrait in the "Last Judgement" on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel (in a flayed skin), and another on the Chapel ceiling as what?
4. The US state of Alabama is known as what?
5. By what name was netball previously known?
6. Who wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" ?
7. What is a keloid?
8. The Andes mountain range lies roughly north to south along the west coast of where?
9. What age (in years) does a horse have to be to run in the Epsom Derby?
10. What word refers to theatre that is made up on the spot?
11. Which of these particularly promotes the explosion of learning in the first two to three years of a child's life?
12. Who was a first baseman in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox who is famous for his 49-game hitting streak in 1915, while playing in the Pacific Coast League, a league record until it was broken by Joe DiMaggio?
13. In 1953, what was announced about the discovery in 1911 to 1915 of the bones of Piltdown Man, who was believed to represent the oldest human race in Europe?
14. What is a stanza or poem consisting of four lines?
15. Which territory has abandoned its capital city of Plymouth and has Brades as a de facto capital?
16. Which of these crosses the Hudson River in New York City?
17. Which of these rivers flows into the Dead Sea?
18. Teams from 16 countries or colonies competed in the first World Bowls Championship in 1966; how many competed in 2023?
19. What film concerns the life story of 18 year old Jamal Malik, a former street child from the Juhu slums in Mumbai?
20. In 1990, the first democratic elections were held in which country, the subject of tug-of-war for at least three centuries between Russia (later the USSR) and China?
21. What is the natural habitat of the electric eel?
22. Which children's book series talking of concepts of computer programming and the internet, was first published in 2015?
23. Where does a wombat usually nest?
24. What is symploce?
25. When did the song "Singin' in the Rain" first appear in a film?
26. Which school is the setting for the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle" ?
27. Which of these is not a slang word related to stealing?
28. What device, invented by Peter Cooper Hewitt in 1902 and obsolete by 1975 with the introduction of devices such as the silicon diode and thyristor, converts alternating current to direct current by means of putting electricity through vapor?
29. What kind of music did Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky write?
30. What is the profession of the two main characters in Luc Besson's 1985 film "Le Grand Bleu", or "The Big Blue" ?
31. What is the name for the branch of astronomy that relates to precise measurements and explanations of the positions and movements of celestial bodies?
32. What is the direct source of power which drives a Newcomen pump?
33. Which university, in 1878, was the first in Britain to make all degrees open to women?
34. The intergovernmental East African Community includes five African nations, the Republics of Burundi and Kenya, and three more nations; which of these is not one?
35. In the mid-twentieth century, American antiques dealer William H. Guthman was among the first to reframe 18th century carving or painting on what, as colonisers' folk art?
36. Before her marriage what was the name of Maria Feodorovna, wife of Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II the last Tsar of Russia, and the recipient of the first royal Fabergé egg?
37. Which was the youngest of these four solo acts to reach number one on Billboard magazine's weekly pop singles chart?
38. In 2020, when did the International Olympics Committee (IOC) schedule the first Olympic Games in Africa?
39. Which of these was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, political activist and poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005?
40. Berbera, Bossaso, Merca and Kismayo are what?
41. Which German was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF & UHF radio waves?
42. Which of these sports is thought to be second only to archery as the oldest British outdoor game?
43. Who featured on the 2006 UK #1 single "Thunder in My Heart Again" by Meck?
44. What is "Yakitori" ?
45. What was the first name of Madame Tussaud, who founded a wax museum in London?
46. Who was the first person to win a Tony Award, an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year, and the only person to have won all 3 awards in the category of "Best Director" ?
47. Who defeated the British army in 1879 at the Battle of Isandlwana?
48. Blood groups are determined by complex chemical systems on or in where?
49. What type of ball is football (soccer) played with?
50. Which can dastaar mean?
51. What is a jalapeño?
52. Which English King was the father of King John and Richard the Lionheart?
53. When his Late String Quartets were first performed in the 1820s, listeners described them variously as "indecipherable, uncorrected horrors" and "we know there is something there, but we do not know what it is" . Who was the composer?
54. Since the 1500s the post of Poet Laureate of Britain has been traditionally held for life, until 1999 when the appointment was made for a fixed term of 10 years. Who is the only Poet Laureate to have been removed from the position?
55. What number, on the Ph scale, represents "neutral" ?
56. Which breed of cat is naturally tailless?
57. In mediaeval years what would the regular occupants of a charterhouse be?
58. Whose birth and death are commemorated on the same day?
59. Ned Flanders, a character in "The Simpsons", runs a store that sells what?
60. Dishes prepared with spinach can be referred to as what?
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