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General Knowledge Quiz 11 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is missing in the sequence:French Guiana, the Republic of Suriname, and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela?
2. What is the meaning of the word "dinosaur" ?
3. Menes in Egypt in the third millennium BCE is recognised as the first leader to do what?
4. The anxiety treatment drug Diazepam was originally marketed under what name?
5. Which 13th century Mogol Emperor of China set up his capital in Peking?
6. The phrase "bigger bang for the buck", first heard in the USA in 1954, was used to describe what?
7. What was the first Olympics to be boycotted by nations that had previously competed?.
8. An archipelago is a collection of what?
9. Which music was acknowledged as influencing the UEFA Champions League Anthem adopted in 1992?
10. Dysphemia is a medical term for what?
11. Which of these best resembles a diaeresis in shape?
12. Gaborone is the capital city of which country?
13. Which of these is a type of embroidery stitch?
14. In a film script, what do the letters POV mean?
15. Griffin was the main character in which book by H G Wells?
16. What happened towards the end of the coronation ceremony for William the Conqueror, at Westminster Abbey in England?
17. What were Blue Danube, Red Beard, Violet Club and Yellow Sun?
18. In the TV series "Mork and Mindy", who was the mostly-unseen and long-suffering superior (voiced by Ralph James) who had sent Mork to Earth, and that Mork had to report to frequently?
19. Busby Berkeley was famous for his contribution to elaborately staged extravagant scenes in film musicals, mainly between the 1920s to 1940s, as what?
20. What is a basis of the theory of Universal Grammar, as proposed by Noam Chomsky?
21. Where are the headquarters of the intergovernmental body known as the Arctic Council?
22. What is "mightier than the sword" in the old saying?
23. On October 24, 1901, 63-year-old Michigan school teacher Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to go where in a barrel?
24. Mount Etna and the Plain of Catania are on which island?
25. Which of these countries is on the Balkan Peninsula?
26. One of the forms of music usually sung a capella is ..... ?
27. In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" on the first ball of the match?
28. Which cross has the upright longer than the transverse piece, and has a circle around the head / join?
29. Which 16th century German physician and botanist is also remembered in the name of a small flowering shrub, with flowers usually of vivid purple-red petals and deep red sepals?
30. What does the "F" stand for in the acronym "FBI" ?
31. When was the Guillain-Barré syndrome first recognised and described?
32. Who was Madonna's first husband?
33. What is a Kindle DX, that in early 2009 was priced at around US$ 489?
34. What do the letters GF mean on a menu?
35. Of what descent was singer Bobby Darin?
36. Myalgic pain affects which part of the body?
37. Which poet, professor and novelist, whose first novel is considered the most widely read in modern African literature, died in Boston, USA, in 2013 at the age of 82?
38. What is a "briard" ?
39. Who was responsible for the walls of lighted glass and glass columns which filled the dining room and "grand salon" of the liner "SS Normandie", and the interior fittings, cross, screens, reredos and font of "St. Matthew's Churches" at Millbrook in Jersey, USA?
40. Which New Zealand born writer produced the award-winning "The Theory of Everything" (2014)?
41. What does the Saffir-Simpson Scale measure?
42. What does the Tchoukball Charter explicitly require of players?
43. In baseball, which base is most frequently stolen by the runners?
44. In Central and South America it is possible to find several rivers named Colorado, in Costa Rica, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina; where is the source of the Colorado River in Argentina?
45. Which of these constellations is visible in the south of the southern hemisphere?
46. What is cholesterol?
47. What play has the characters Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism and Doctor Chasuble?
48. Which of these is a children's game which uses a pattern (usually chalked) on the ground and a stone, that mainly involves getting from one square to another on one leg?
49. Where is Grissom Hill?
50. Which movement was begun in 1909 by Richard Schirrmann, a German schoolteacher, and Wilhelm Münker, a conservationist?
51. From which sport do we get the expression "Struck out" ?
52. What characterises the land in The Sahel?
53. Who fronted the BBC 2 specials "Gambling in Las Vegas" , "The Most Hated Family in America" , "Under The Knife" , "Behind Bars" , "African Hunting Holiday" , "Law and Disorder in Philadelphia" and "A Place for Paedophiles" ?
54. Until the introduction of the euro, on 1 January 2002, which country had the schilling as its basic currency unit?
55. Comedian Ernie Wise was the subject of a publicity campaign launched in the UK on 1 January 1985 as being the first person in the UK to use what?
56. The Lotophagi, an island people who ate the fruit of the lotus tree, are mentioned in which of these books?
57. What does a mordent involve?
58. Who released the album "Tissues and Issues" in 2005?
59. Which of these is a fictional character in a series of science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
60. Which of these is the name for a small purse or bag, originally of network but later of silk, rayon, etc.?
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