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General Knowledge Quiz 117 (60 MCQs)

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1. What caused 12, 000 deaths in 4 days in London in 1952?
2. Which of these species is hermaphrodite?
3. What is the name for a group of musicians formed to imitate a famous band?
4. In 1854, John Snow proved that what was transmitted by infected water?
5. In computer hardware, if a drive is SSD what is it?
6. According to the fairytale, Cinderella's coach was made from what?
7. Salvador Allende, General Augusto Pinochet and the "Caravan of Death" are all connected with the history of which country in the 1970s and 1980s?
8. Who was named cricketer of the year by the International Cricket Council in 2009?
9. What was the occupation of St Peter, the leader of the Apostles?
10. What does the Book of Kells contain?
11. What place was Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) describing in his "Natural History" when he wrote "twice in every day the ocean ..... hides Nature's everlasting controversy about whether this region belongs to the land or to the sea" ?
12. What word refers to a measure used in Scotland for liquids, chiefly beer, equalling 9 gallons?
13. Which of these was a world famous drug dealer?
14. What is a high pitched long rhythmically quavering vocal sound, made especially as an expression of sorrow, joy, celebration, or reverence?
15. Why was Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996, so named?
16. According to an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) study published in 2017, what is the source of up to 30% of the 'plastic soup' in the world's oceans?
17. What type of design was used for London's Millennium Footbridge across the Thames, that opened on 10 June 2000?
18. Where is the Namib?
19. The Reverend William Oughtred developed which scientific instrument in the 17th century?
20. What caused much of Lisbon, Portugal, to be destroyed in 1531 and again in 1755?
21. The language known as Putonghua, Guoyu, Gwok Yu and Huayu, is spoken in Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore and where else that it is the official language?
22. "Lewis Carroll" was the pseudonym of which author?
23. What do the notes for the currency "euro" have on the back (verso)?
24. Which of these bodies of water has the largest surface area?
25. Particularly well-known for about a decade's work in film for Hitler's Germany, Leni Riefenstahl before and for the many years of her long life afterwards was variously a talented what?
26. What is at the centre of the story of the ballet "Petrouchka" ?
27. The term "rope-a-dope" is from what sport?
28. The firm founded in America in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports is the forerunner to which firm?
29. If a line is orthogonal to another, what is it?
30. In 1992 participants from which country or countries competed under an Olympic flag instead of flags related to a country?
31. Which of these cities is a port?
32. What process concerns the passage of food through the human body?
33. Schooner, midi, or handle are terms applied to what?
34. Who is the father of actress Lucy Davis, who played receptionist Dawn Tinsley in the UK TV series "The Office" (2001), junior writer Lucy Kenwright in the US TV series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and Dianne in the film "Shaun of the Dead" (2004)?
35. What was the first year that the Show Jumping World Championships were held, in Paris?
36. Where did the Phnom Penh stampede occur, on 22 November 2010 when 378 people died and upwards of 755 more were injured?
37. The year 1776 saw the first race of what became the St Leger Stakes, destruction of 36 Cherokee towns, the birth of Mary Pickersgill, the start of Captain Cook's third voyage, and what else?
38. Joanna Koerten (1650-1715) in the Netherlands was sought after for what?
39. What causes a cornstarch and water or juice mixture to thicken when it is brought to the boil?
40. What do Green Day, the Beverley Sisters, Ace of Base, Atomic Kitten, Blink-182, Cream, Depeche Mode, Destiny's Child and the Dixie Chicks have in common?
41. Who was the first President of the French Fifth Republic?
42. Who played the title role in Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" ?
43. Where in Africa is the sandstone tableland known as the Tegama?
44. What links the satire of manners, the play "Lady Windermere's Fan", and the Queensberry Rules for boxing?
45. Who designed both the obverse and reverse of the twenty-dollar gold coin, or double eagle, produced by the US Mint from 1907 to 1933?
46. The Sinai Peninsula is part of which country?
47. Which of these is the name of part of Ethiopia which became independent In 1993?
48. About how much of the human body is composed of water?
49. What is the name of a family of satellites launched since 1995 and operated by Eutelsat, located at 13$^\circ$E over the Equator (orbital position) with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East?
50. In the surveying method called LIDAR, what does the acronym stand for?
51. Cautley Spout, Gocta, Hannoki, ShirAbad, and Shoshone are the names of what?
52. What is the deepest lake in the world, and the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume?
53. Of four balloons filled respectively with ozone, carbon dioxide, oxygen and ammonia, which gas will make its balloon float?
54. Who was elected President of the USA in 1860?
55. In the nursery rhyme, a carving knife was used for amputation on who?
56. Which of these islands is not in the Mediterranean Sea?
57. Snuff is made of a powdered form of what?
58. In Alaska in the 18th century and prior to USA's purchasing it from Russia in 1867, the UK and what other European country laid claim to the land?
59. Where is Rapa Nui?
60. How is a rebec usually played?
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