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General Knowledge Quiz 119 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which drama series starring Dervla Kirwan and Stephen Tompkinson centred on a farming community in Ireland?
2. Which animal was specially bred to scent, chase, and flush out badgers and other burrow-dwelling animals?
3. Among several athletes who have run barefoot in the history of Olympic Games, who ran barefoot in the 1986 Summer Olympics?
4. In which sport is a contest called honbasho or basho?
5. Which of these is a type of sponge dessert?
6. Which of these is an alternative medicine based on examining the condition of the eyes?
7. An Australian needs a passport to enter which of these areas?
8. Which film, directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, was about a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas?
9. Whose film career began in 1993 with "The Piano" and whose roles have included Jane Eyre, Queen Isabella II of Spain, a teenage mutant, and a human in a vampire TV series?
10. Which 60 hour annual race of 100 to 130 miles (161 to 209 km) through mountains, with an elevation gain of around 63, 000 ft (19, 200 m), is so hard that when three contestants finished in 2023 it was the first time anyone had finished in 6 years?
11. In the initials or acronym SMS what does the first "S" stand for?
12. Which of these is a disease caused by a coronavirus?
13. Which of these bones is the lowest in the human body (when it is standing up!)?
14. In tuning a snare drum, the resonant head is generally tuned more loosely than what?
15. Which of these is a film production company founded in 1934?
16. What was the fictional family with children called Greg, Peter, Bobby, Marcia, Jan and Cindy, that first came to US TV screens in 1969?
17. The region of Kashmir is claimed in part or completely by India, Pakistan and what other country?
18. What did the Snyder Act of 1924 in the US provide for?
19. Some lorises are popular for the pet trade, although most species are endangered and one particularly popular loris can deliver a poisonous, even life-threatening, bite. Which one is this?
20. Where are the British Houses of Parliament?
21. American James Kent (1763-1847) was influential as a what?
22. In Greek legend, a woodland deity, half man, half goat, is called a ..... ?
23. Syracuse, New York, USA, banned what game during World War I?
24. Who is the mother of actors Oliver and Kate Hudson?
25. Of the colours yellow, red, purple, black and white, which is not in the name of one of the world's seas?
26. Torvill and Dean are famous in which winter activity?
27. What was the only combat medal created in the US, and subsequently cancelled in April 2013, for a military service member who is not physically in the geographic combat zone?
28. In what TV series was Oceanic Airlines flight 815 a critical factor?
29. What does "in vino veritas" mean?
30. In the TV series, what was Blackadder's first name?
31. Who is common to the films "Memento", "Inception", and "Interstellar" ?
32. Larry Hagman, the star of the TV drama that first ran from 1978 to 1991, "Dallas", is the son of which actress and singer who originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific" and Maria in "The Sound of Music" ?
33. Named for its colour, originally called Greek and prized as a paint pigment, is the mixture of compounds of what?
34. When were fingerprints first accepted as evidence in an English court of law?
35. In the myths and legends of which country does Queen Maeve, or Medb, figure?
36. Which rock band's first drummer, Stumpy Pepys, was killed in an obscure gardening accident, their second, Eric Stumpy Joe Childs, died by choking on vomit, and their third died from spontaneous combustion during a concert?
37. Who was the youngest person at the time to be elected president of the USA?
38. Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover often had public conversations in which language so that people could not eavesdrop on them?
39. In the late 19th and early 20th century Leo Baekeland and Alexander Parkes were involved in the development of what?
40. Which US president occupied 2 executive mansions in New York City [at 3 Cherry Street (April 1789-February 1790) & 39-41 Broadway (February-August 1790)], and 1 in Philadelphia at 190 High Street (November 1790 to March 1797)?
41. On the Christian calendar, Twelfth Day is also known by what name?
42. In the 19th century, who joined with Joseph and Thomas Huntley to become famous for making biscuits?
43. What English custom practised from the late 17th until the early 20th century, was the backdrop for Thomas Hardy's novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" ?
44. The De Beers company is an important company in the trading of what commodity world-wide?
45. What film studio was founded by Cecil B De Mille and J L Lasky in 1913?
46. Which Scotsman, a self-made man, merchant and yachtsman who created a tea brand, was a persistent challenger for the America's Cup?
47. Edward Purcell (1809-1883) who became known as a poet, essayist, translator and letter-writer had his name changed in 1819 to what?
48. Whose wife, on arriving at his death bed, reportedly shouted "Is the bloody man dead yet?" ?
49. What is the source of a kettle lake?
50. Twins of the name of Evers-Swindell are associated with what sport?
51. In terms of communication what is a rail fence?
52. What was the name of the unofficial mascot of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, which has a statue as part of an official Olympic memorial outside the Sydney Olympic Stadium?
53. Which national flag is 11 (high):28 (wide) and is maroon (symbolising blood shed during several wars, particularly in the second half of the 19th century) with a white serrated band (symbol of peace) with nine white points on the hoist side?
54. The Passover is part of the calendar for which religion?
55. Who first stated the three laws of planetary motion?
56. When the alternate prime ministers of Israel dissolved the Knesset in June 2022 and announced an election in Israel for later that year, this made how many elections since 2013?
57. When are aircraft most likely to have a bird strike?
58. Which compound on the surface of Mars makes it appear red?
59. Which of these is the name for a type of broom?
60. Which choreographer created installations featuring architecture and performance, which he calls "Choreographic Objects" ?
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