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General Knowledge Quiz 115 (60 MCQs)

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1. In 2008, Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton began dating Nicole Scherzinger, who made her name with which American pop/R & B girl group and dance ensemble?
2. In its first 32 years which was the first time the 4-yearly Rugby World Cup was hosted in an Asian country?
3. The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film 1987, Babette's Feast, was set in, and filmed by, what country?
4. "Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. Go, bid the soldiers shoot." are the last lines of which play?
5. Which of these British rulers is from the House of Hanover?
6. What colour is associated with jaundice?
7. Lise Meitner with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered what, for which Hahn (only) received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944?
8. Where is the strait known as the Bocca Tigris?
9. Which of these is not a name given to the period in the history of the Papacy during the first half of the tenth century, beginning with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasting for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964?
10. What was the nickname of ski jumper Michael Edwards, who first represented Great Britain at the 1987 World Championships and, as the sole British applicant, qualified for the 1988 Winter Olympics where he finished last in both the 70m and 90m events?
11. What aspect of the Japanese surrender that ended World War II occurred on 2 September 1945?
12. Who, after marrying in 1791, and living in Naples, became the mistress of Lord Nelson, having his child, Horatia, in 1803?
13. In 2009 what was the world's biggest car maker by sales?
14. What nationality is composer and pianist Philip Glass?
15. Which Scotsman took out a patent in 1876 that was the nucleus of the telephone?
16. Currently, The Heart of Midlothian is NOT which of these?
17. How many digits are there in the number 2020?
18. The game of Roulette was created by which mathematician, physicist, and Catholic philosopher in the 17th century in his search for a perpetual motion machine?
19. What are cytokines?
20. About which conflict did Winston Churchill say "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" ?
21. Who wrote the opera "Pagliacci" ?
22. Whose version of the song from the musical Carousel, "You'll Never Walk Alone", became popular from the 1960s as an anthem for the city of Liverpool and with audiences and fans of Liverpool's soccer (football) team at games?
23. What was the reason for the collapse in March 2024 of several sections of the 52 year old Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, USA?
24. Over two days in 1921 a lynch mob destroyed 35 blocks of thriving businesses and homes, and between 30 and 300 people were killed and 10, 000 left homeless. For more than 70 years it was barely mentioned and multiple records of the disaster were destroyed. Where?
25. Who holds the record for being the world heavyweight boxing champion?
26. Motorcycle riders attempt to impress judges with routines on a course consisting of multiple jumps of varying lengths and angles that generally occupy one to two acres (.4 to .8 hectares) in what sport?
27. Which of these is on Spain's north coast?
28. Glencoe, Praga, Peterloo, Waterloo Creek, and Hue are names given to what?
29. In the film "The Yellow Submarine" (1968) what was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band there to do?
30. What association, currently of 27 members, holds over just 7% (in 2011) of the global population and generates approximately 20% of global GDP when thought of in terms of purchasing power parity?
31. What shape hole is found in the resonating chamber of a banjo?
32. Which of these is not a real element on the periodic table?
33. For what is "Halliwell's" is a reference book?
34. What colour is the medal presented for winning an event at the Olympic Games from 1904 onwards?
35. Which best characterises deep sleep?
36. Where are the Straits of Mackinac?
37. Brian Cox, who is known among other things for presenting science TV programmes in the UK, is a professor at the University of Manchester in what field?
38. Who sang and performed at the 2017 Superbowl in the USA?
39. The peace treaty, the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I, was signed between the Allied Powers and which nation?
40. Which of these is a percussion instrument?
41. On 4 October in 1883 while the Boys' Brigade was having its inaugural meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, what else was also happening?
42. The short-lived Federation of the Autonomous States of where, was constituted in 1922?
43. In which ocean are the Scilly Isles?
44. The World Flying Disc Federation, formed in 1984, governs what?
45. What did Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, a character in a series of 19th century stories, do?
46. The Iditarod and similar races have increasing challenges to their survival in the 21st century, for what reason?
47. What was the theatre term "box office" used for originally?
48. Where is the submarine, 70 km long and 30 km wide, Marsili volcano?
49. What number, when multiplied by itself, has the same answer when it is added to itself?
50. The coxae, a trochanter, a femur, a short patella, the tibia, and the tarsus are the six parts of what, found in some arthropods?
51. What was first demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell at the Philadelphia Exhibition in 1876?
52. Chicago, Illinois, U S A, is on the shores of what body of water?
53. How far away from Earth is the nearest star which is approximately the same size as the Sun?
54. Which were the first Summer Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch?
55. What is the name for the five long bones in the foot that are numbered from the big toe (the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth) and are analogous to the metacarpal bones of the hand?
56. Which team won the inaugural Fast5 World Netball Series, first contested in October 2009, which had modified rules (and was compared to Twenty20 cricket and rugby sevens)?
57. Paul Newman starred as a heroically serial prison escaper in the film "Cool Hand Luke" (1967); what was he sent to prison for?
58. Abdus Salam, Sheldon Lee Glashow and Steven Weinberg were awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to what?
59. Areas of South America are rich in mineral deposits; one major area is the Andean tin-tungsten-silver belt of about 2, 000 km, extending from where to where?
60. In what country is the white wine grape Pinot grigio, a clone of Pinot gris, traditionally grown?
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