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General Knowledge Quiz 109 (60 MCQs)

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1. "Peggy" is a shortened version of what name?
2. Which Dickens character was visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley?
3. In which sea or ocean are the Chatham Islands, or Rekohu?
4. Which of these is a Spanish possession on the African continent?
5. Six New Zealanders went away from the 2010 Academy Awards with Oscar statuettes, all for their work on one film; what was the film?
6. A song introduced for the 1914 US run of the British musical "The Girl from Utah", by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Herbert Reynolds, was "They didn't ..... (what) ..... Me" ?
7. Who sings the theme song for the UK TV series "New Tricks" ?
8. The present human footspeed record was set in 2009 by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. What speed did he reach?
9. In 1779 Captain James Cook, having surveyed the West Coast of the continent of North America, was killed at which islands?
10. What retail chain is named after a character from Herman Melville's book Moby Dick?
11. What software was acquired by Google in 2007 and used in the process of developing a public data search function that made it easier to find data in a Google search?
12. Which animated TV series, which first aired in the UK in November 2016, features rotating members of a superhero group plus characters made famous by DC Comics?
13. What was mass-produced in China by the 14th century, was first mass-produced commercially and publicly available in the West in the 19th century, and is currently a staple of many households globally?
14. What is "amblyopia" commonly known as?
15. What kind of game was tablut, a form of hnefatafl?
16. Where did the impressionist painter Paul Gauguin spend around four years of his early childhood?
17. The "Hyksos" was the name given to a people who assumed rule in which country in the second millennium BCE?
18. What does the acronym FAST refer to in astronomy?
19. What part of the USA is known as "Tinseltown" ?
20. The first 5 meetings of which annual international competition were held at Göteborg, Sweden (twice), Baltimore, USA, Birmingham, England, and Vienna, Austria?
21. What rock forms much of the land of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil?
22. Which ITV live morning magazine programme has screened, as at 2018, for thirty years?
23. Who has been quoted as saying "If you have a statue in the city centre, you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right-but as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture" ?
24. What kind of ship was the British ship HMS Hermes, laid down in January 1918, launched on 11 September 1919 but not commissioned until 1923, the first ship of its kind to be designed and built anywhere in the world?
25. Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner starred in what TV series, first broadcast from 1966 to 1969?
26. What is the name for the individual leaves of the calyx or outer whorl of a flower?
27. In both Greek and Roman mythology, who was the twin of Castor?
28. The Team sprint track cycling event is, in the men's event, a three-man team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome. What makes up the women's event?
29. The common choko is what colour when ripe?
30. What did the development called Project Purple 2, and begun in 2005, result in?
31. What is the Nakba?
32. When was the first Vatican Radio broadcast?
33. From 1964 to 2005 British American Alan Truscott was the daily, and then weekly, columnist for the New York Times in what field?
34. In game fishing what kind of restrictions are put by the International Game fishing Association on fighting chairs?
35. The House of Bourbon, a European royal house one of whose monarchs was famously guillotined in France in 1792, has descendants currently on the throne of which country or countries?
36. Where would one find a kibbutz?
37. In 1896 the final collaboration by W.S.Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan was staged at the Savoy theatre, London, UK. What was it called?
38. In chess, what piece can only move diagonally?
39. Where would a cobbler be usually found
40. If Prince William of Wales, the elder son of Charles and Diana, Prince and Princess of Wales, becomes "King William", what number will he be?
41. Who led the expedition that successfully made the first ascent of Mt Everest in 1953?
42. What year did the US Congress authorise the USA officially to fight in World War I?
43. What is the name for Government House, Canberra, the official residence of the Governor-General of Australia?
44. Which classic film is the story of a US marshal who cannot get help from anyone (including his new quaker wife) to face a gunfight with a criminal and his three henchmen?
45. Which is almost exclusively the food of the caterpillar of the Monarch Butterfly?
46. The International Skating Union (ISU) was formed in Scheveningen in the Netherlands in 1892 to govern speed skating and figure skating, and hosted its first Championship in Saint Petersburg in 1896. How many skaters competed?
47. The Berber confederation known as the Almoravids, puritanical and military Islamic fundamentalists, gained control during 1053 to 1147 of which area or areas?
48. Who was President of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972, who had opposed professionalism in the Olympics and the politicisation of sport, and had proposed eliminating team sports from the Summer Olympics?
49. The play "Saint Joan" by George Bernard Shaw centres on whom?
50. Which of these fictional characters was created by Ruth Rendell?
51. Which of these speeds up chemical reactions?
52. What type of creature is a taipan?
53. Which of these is a landlocked republic in the Apennine Mountains?
54. What is the name of the killer rat that features in the 1971 film "Willard" ?
55. In air, at 20 $^\circ$C (68 $^\circ$F), how much faster than the speed of sound is the speed of light?
56. A mellotron is what kind of musical instrument?
57. The US TV mini-series "Hatfields & McCoys" (2012) was shot in Transylvania against the backdrop of the Carpathian mountains to represent what mountain range?
58. Which of these is a one act comic opera by Mozart?
59. Grime music grew from what place?
60. What word is used in mathematics to mean "if and only if" ?
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