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General Knowledge Quiz 116 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which American superhero animated film featuring the voices of Aldis Hodge and Jimmi Simpson was released in 2022 direct to DVD, Blu-ray and 4K?
2. What is the largest and least populated state of the USA?
3. Which of these characters were seen on TV screens first?
4. Of the 16 states of Germany, 13 are termed area states (Flächenländer). What are the other 3?
5. A lion called Lyo, a merlion called Merly, a chamois called Yoggi, a lynx called Sjogg and a young jaguar called Pandi are all connected with what?
6. What is the regulation size ratio for a pocket billiards table?
7. A spaceport known as CSG and used by the European Space Agency (ESA), the French space agency CNES (National Centre for Space Studies) and commercial companies, is built on an area previously famous as a harsh prison system, where?
8. The artist J.M.W. Turner is known for paintings of what?
9. The Treaty of Brussels, also referred to as the Brussels Pact, was the founding treaty of what?
10. What is the name for the dome or arched roof at the top of a building that is a distinctive part of Byzantine architecture and characteristic of mosques?
11. The 20th century programme known as Fount (or Spring) of Life, was under the personal direction of whom?
12. In 1998 the Austrian/British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist Gitta Sereny published a second, and controversial, piece of research (called "Cries Unheard") on which subject?
13. Which of these is a word meaning "free to go where or to act as one pleases" ?
14. Has there ever been a time in England when it was illegal to fly a kite, and if so when was the legislation passed?
15. Which group released a 1982 song which featured the repeated refrain "Hakuna matata", later made famous in a 1994 Walt Disney animated film and meaning "no problems, or worries" ?
16. The flatmates in the UK supernatural television series "Being Human" which first aired in 2008 are werewolves, vampires and which other?
17. Which South American country contains the lowest of the areas in the continent which lie below sea level?
18. The year 2018 marks what anniversary since the completion of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary?
19. Which major contemporary art exhibition began in 1895 mainly for decorative arts, showed increasing interest in innovation from 1907, and added Festivals of Music in 1930, International Film in 1932, Theatre in 1934, and Contemporary Dance in 1999?
20. She is one of the best-selling female artists of all time in a career spanning over five decades, sings in more than 15 languages, performing jazz, pop, opera, cabaret, and folk. What is her name?
21. What was the name of the uprising in Rhode Island that attempted to extend voting rights because, by 1829, only landowners could vote, and thus 60% of the state's free white men could not (as well as non-whites and women)?
22. The words "taonga", "kaitiaki" and "whānau" have all entered the English language spoken in what country or area, from that of the people indigenous to it?
23. In what language did Pliny the Elder write?
24. What event near Bucharest, Romania, in March 1977 led to 1, 578 deaths, 11, 221 injured, and estimated losses of about US$ 2 billion?
25. Who composed the operas "The Mask of Orpheus" (1986) and "Gawain" (1991)?
26. A "beat" is a physical area allocated to whom?
27. In the final Test match of his career, international cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan became the first bowler to take 800 Test wickets. What nation did he represent?
28. Who was the first British monarch of the House of Windsor?
29. The Champagne area of France is nearest to which of these countries?
30. What is a common feature of komodo dragons, aphids, and whiptail lizards?
31. In May 2009, suspected NAZI death camp guard John Demjanjuk was deported from where to Germany?
32. Which of these is a small deciduous tree?
33. Who or what lives in a vespiary?
34. The Jordan, Bear and Weber Rivers empty into which major lake in central USA?
35. What area does the only floating zip code in the US cover?
36. In Star Wars, what is the name of Han Solo's spacecraft?
37. Which is the third in what the American author and illustrator Maurice Sendak describes as a trilogy of books based on psychological development, starting with "In the Night Kitchen" ?
38. What is unusual about the feet of people who have "Morton's toe" ?
39. Which was the first Olympic Games in which athletes from Kosovo were able to compete under the flag of their own country?
40. In signing the Concordat of Worms in 1122, Henry V of Germany and the Holy Roman Emperor resigned the right of the Emperor to do what?
41. In what work does a tokamak figure?
42. Churning cream produces what?
43. Who wrote the book that has come to be known as "The Origin of Species" ?
44. In early 2013 French actor Gerard Depardieu took on Russian citizenship and was registered as permanent resident of ..... ?
45. When they played together in 1970 musicians Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle, Jim Gordon and Eric Clapton were known as what?
46. At the end of the 8th century the Emperor of Japan moved his capital to which city?
47. Which South American country stretches over 3, 000 miles from north to south and less than 300 miles from east to west?
48. What country would you get to first if you went due East from the port of Bari, Italy?
49. What are the games, instituted in 2014, known as The Invictus Games?
50. The horse Red Rum finished second twice in the British Grand National, in 1975 and 1976; Rag Trade and which other were the horses that beat him?
51. The use of "expired" in the sentence "John and his driving licence expired last week" is an example of which figure of speech?
52. Which king of Egypt abdicated in favour of his infant son in July 1952?
53. Where is the Atlantic Ocean's Gulf of Guinea?
54. "Chinese gooseberry" is another name for which of these?
55. In most countries of the world, the third Sunday in June is dedicated to which group?
56. In snooker, what colour ball is spotted on the centre of the table?
57. When did the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, UK, host its first Snooker World Championship?
58. Which country did the Olympic sprinter represent, who asked for protection to stop her from being forcibly returned home during the 2020 Olympics?
59. How do the strings in a spinet sit in relation to the keyboard?
60. An article of the Swiss constitution dating from 1850 established what?
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