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General Knowledge Quiz 12 (60 MCQs)

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1. The three month Kargil War in mid 1999 was between which two countries?
2. Which of these is a shade of red?
3. Which amendment to the US constitution provides freedom of religion, assembly, speech and the press?
4. What is the name for the numbers in the sequence 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55, 66, 78 ..... ?
5. What is the substance formed naturally in wine barrels during fermentation of the wine and known as wine diamonds?
6. Canadian businessman and poker player, Guy Laliberté, is also co-founder of what?
7. Which of these is a perennial thistle originating in southern Europe around the Mediterranean, the flowers of which develop in a large head from an edible bud?
8. What does the phrase "copper-bottomed", meaning a safe bet, come from?
9. In 1993, in the course of the wars during the breakup of Yugoslavia, a 15th century bridge was destroyed in which city (now the largest financial centre in Bosnia-Herzegovina)?
10. What causes trigger toe?
11. A gong is traditionally struck to announce what?
12. Who was the first U.S. President to take residence in the White House, then known as the Executive Mansion?
13. What cartoon character is depicted as having superhuman strength, originally, in 1929, gained by rubbing the head of the rare Whiffle Hen, and, from 1932, by eating spinach?
14. Which expression is an example of periphrasis?
15. The Battle of Guadalcanal was between troops from the USA and what other country?
16. What was the US codename for President George H. W. Bush's 1989 invasion of Panama, to depose and seize the de facto Panamanian leader, general and dictator Manuel Noriega?
17. For whom were the three orchestral suites, in F, D and G Major, together usually known as the Water Music, composed in 1717?
18. The title character of which of these musicals is a matchmaker?
19. John Wayne appeared as a centurion in the film "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965). What was his famous line?
20. What tool was developed by a company founded by Eric Yuan in 2011?
21. Which of these is a song by Lennon-McCartney that has been covered on record by more singers than any other song?
22. Peter Snell, who set 5 individual world running records, was part of a team that set a new four by 1 mile relay record and won 2 Olympic golds for 800 metres (1960 Rome & 1964 Tokyo) and a gold for 1500 metres (1964 Tokyo), represented which country?
23. Persia is the former name of which country?
24. Who, in 1916, was the first woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives, the first female member of the Congress, and the only woman to be elected to Congress from Montana?
25. What is the mistral?
26. Ashgabat is the capital city of which country?
27. What is the name of the closed, double-layered membrane containing the heart and the roots of the great vessels?
28. Which Austrian, a pioneer in psycho-analysis, died in London in 1939, a refugee from Nazi persecution?
29. In police tradition in the USA and the UK, an unnamed person or person whose name is being concealed is referred to as John or Jane what?
30. The islands of Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes are in which sea?
31. In which context is the word "agistment" most likely to be used?
32. Which of these was a famous Australian dancer?
33. The countries of Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe are all what?
34. What were the weapons used mainly by infantrymen in the American Civil War?
35. At what location was the US Transcontinental Railroad completed?
36. Which of these is or are associated with developing the hot air balloon?
37. In 1899 Jim Jeffries, the champion at the time, competed against Tom Sharkey on Coney Island, New York, in what discipline?
38. What was the 1911 Xinhai Revolution directly intended to achieve?
39. How many human blood groups are there?
40. Henry Cooper is associated with which sport?
41. Which of these is a plucked instrument?
42. In what game would you declare a rubber?
43. What makes Douglas Fairbanks the odd one out from these other stars of the early American film scene:Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Errol Flynn?
44. Outside its use in linguistics, what is a "paradigm" ?
45. Which actor won the 2012 Golden Raspberry Award for both the worst actor and the worst actress in a 2011 film?
46. The Wash is an English estuary which opens to which body of water?
47. In Scandinavian mythology, who were the maidens who rode through the sky on horses, sword in hand, to influence the outcome of battles and select the bravest fighters to live in Valhallah?
48. Which of these is a character in "The Matrix" series of films?
49. It is believed that the first of what type of business was opened in 1936 in Fort Worth, Texas by Noah Brannen?
50. In Great Britain, painted strips on the road to show where pedestrians should cross is named after which animal?
51. What word had as one of its early meanings "to shoot an arrow short or wide" ?
52. Where was the first FIFA Club World Championship, a football competition contested between the world's champion clubs, held in 2000?
53. What was the stage name of Norma Deloris Egstrom, an American jazz and popular music singer and songwriter who won 3 Grammy Awards (including the Lifetime Achievement Award) and who was nominated for an Academy Award as an actress?
54. The tectonic plates that lie under the Earth's crust constantly move; in which general direction does the South American Plate which is under South America and much of the Atlantic west of the mid-Atlantic Ridge move?
55. Which daughter of James V of Scotland became Queen of France in 1559?
56. What process in 1932 made it possible for Adolf Hitler to run for political office in Germany?
57. Which of these places is closest to Perth, Australia?
58. If a shawm were a member of the modern orchestra what section would it be in?
59. "Mate" is a technical call in the course of which game?
60. What is the name of the 3.5-mile-long (5, 600 m), 5.5 km wide semi-circular scalloped precipice in the Grand Coulee in Washington, USA?
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