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General Knowledge Quiz 118 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who was Marlon Brando's co-star in the 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris", directed by Bernardo Bertolucci?
2. What shape is usually ascribed to flying objects seen in the sky but believed to be not from the Earth?
3. Which of these has fish as its normal diet?
4. Roughly when was the Hampton Court Maze created?
5. A "wendigo" is a cannibalistic creature invented by what group?
6. At which event is milk, not champagne, the celebration drink?
7. Gordon Ramsay's first foray in TV was in which 1998 fly-on-the-kitchen-wall documentary?
8. What highly flammable metal, easy to ignite when powdered, producing a brilliant white light, and difficult to extinguish, being able to burn in both nitrogen and carbon dioxide, was used in incendiary weapons for firebombing cities in World War II and as a source of illumination in the early days of photography?
9. Decryption of what, was celebrated as a significant, game-changing intelligence triumph for Britain during World War I?
10. On the buttons of a VCR or DVD player, what does the sign in the shape of a square mean?
11. Tom Brady in the USA was the centre of suspicions concerning events in 2014, popularly called what?
12. The capital of Brazil was moved from Rio de Janeiro to the purpose-built capital city of Brasilia in what year?
13. Traditionally, what should you cross for good luck?
14. The absent-minded Professor Calculus was a colleague of which fictional character?
15. Which of these is a standard paper size?
16. What name is given to a brightly coloured and very wide tie?
17. Which was the first National Olympic Committee to be recognised by the International Olympic committee after its formation in 1894?
18. Who was born in 1682, died in 1764, and had the following written about her: "Her brow is like the snow-drift, Her neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That 'er the sun shone on And dark blue is her eye" ?
19. James Boswell is best known for his biography of whom?
20. What is the inherited condition that causes the body to retain copper, which can lead to brain and liver damage?
21. What is the closest description of the interior of South Africa?
22. In 2004 Sri Lanka deprived what people of the right to have an identity card?
23. A moratorium on capital punishment throughout the US for about four years was occasioned after a 1972 decision by the US Supreme Court. What was the decision?
24. "Death Comes to Pemberley" (2013) is a television series extending the situation of characters introduced by which 18th/19th century author?
25. A critic hailed "Les Misérables", when it was first published in 1862, as "exaggerated and inflated nonsense"; what would have been a simile for that description?
26. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018, Donal Ryan's novel, "from a low and quiet sea", explores what?
27. Which medal, originally called the Badge of Military Merit, was established by George Washington in 1782, awarded to only 3 Revolutionary War soldiers, and not proposed again officially until after World War I?
28. What did the Romans call Ireland?
29. In the 1980s one of the matches between Australia and New Zealand in One Day International cricket was infamous for what?
30. Which film, that opens at the annual presentation of the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement, focusses on the personality clash of two stage actresses played by Bette Davis and Anne Baxter?
31. What is the name of the principle that "if two explanations account equally well for a particular phenomenon, the one to be chosen is the one with the fewer assumptions" ?
32. Who is singer and actor Miley Cyrus's godmother?
33. The sign language used in some stock exchanges to buy and sell is called what?
34. Who won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, married Kris Kardashian in 1991 and from 2007 starred in the E! reality series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" ?
35. What is the conifer native to the west coast of North America that grows to over 300 feet high?
36. Historically, lead poisoning was recognised as a common industrial disease of which of these professions?
37. In 1904 the Russian cruiser "Rossia" used what, the first time it was used by a warship on the high seas during a time of war?
38. If a forest fire reaches a hill how does it change?
39. What purpose does lustration serve?
40. What condition caused by spasm of arterioles and sometimes small veins, results in the formation of small raised areas that are white or red, affecting mainly fingers and toes, which later throb and itch?
41. In the acronym NTSC, used in the television industry, what does the "T" stand for?
42. What was the second highest grossing American film in 1982?
43. The US Congress passed legislation in late June 2008 to provide Mexico with $ 400 million and Central American countries with $ 65 million in a relation to what activity?
44. Which of these countries does not have a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean?
45. Who is the only boxer to be the WBA Heavyweight Champion four times?
46. Who married stylist Ric Pipino in 1997, divorced him in 2002, had a daughter by Italian businessman Flavio Briatore, married musician Seal in 2005, and had 3 three more children with him between 2005 and 2009?
47. At the 2009 Freediving Individual World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, and in the Bahamas, competitors from which country won 9 of the 22 medals awarded in addition to setting a world record?
48. Which of these territories became British as a result of the defeat of Germany in 1918 in World War I under the Treaty of Versailles?
49. Which of these, also known as the silvertip bear, popularly known for congregating alongside streams, lakes, rivers, and ponds during the salmon spawn, generally lives in the uplands of western North America and are thought to descend from Ussuri Brown Bears which crossed to Alaska 100, 000 years ago?
50. What is the name of the system of stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter (then Latin letters in lower-case then upper-case), followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name (e.g. $\alpha$ Tauri)?
51. Kelly Slater is both the youngest and oldest person to hold the world title in what sport?
52. Which of these is a form of bursitis?
53. Nathan, Caleb, Matthew and Jared Followill are better known as which pop group?
54. If the participants in a game have just completed a rubber what game was it?
55. A description that is negative, disparaging, disrespectful or insulting is termed what?
56. Which of these is not a line from the old song "Daisy, Daisy" ?
57. Which is one of the first eight declared by UNESCO to be cultural World Heritage Sites?
58. What name is given to an ambassador to Great Britain who is representing a country that is a member of the British Commonwealth?
59. Which 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer showed, by using geometric construction and the law of refraction, that the angular radius of a rainbow is 42 degrees?
60. The Tumuc-Humac Mountains are between Brazil and where else?
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