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General Knowledge Quiz 121 (60 MCQs)

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1. Where are monkfish typically caught?
2. Which of these is a light automatic personal weapon with limited range and accuracy, getting its power solely from the recoil, which was mass-produced cheaply during World War II?
3. "Alfabet/alphabet:A Memoir of a First Language" is a record of the transition of which award-winning Canadian poet to speaking English?
4. In which US state are the Catskill Mountains?
5. Which son of a king of Kent, chosen king of the West Saxons, conquered Cornwall, Mercia and other parts of England and is generally accepted as the first King to be recognised by all England?
6. The Taj Mahal is nearest to which city?
7. World War I flying ace Baron von Richthofen, the Red Baron, was credited with how many "kills" before he himself was killed?
8. Set up in 1954 as a merger of smaller groups, the Front de Libération Nationale fought a war for independence from France until 1962, when the French government signed a cease-fire agreement. The FLN became the only legal party in which country?
9. When Major-General Benedict Arnold of the US Army planned to surrender West Point in 1780 to whom did he plan to surrender?
10. Where is the Guinness Book of World Records published?
11. What did Breton artist Jeanne Malivel (1895-1926) join with two other young artists to create?
12. What is a sextant used for?
13. Rabbets are used in what?
14. What is the national anthem of the UK?
15. Who is credited with inventing the railway sleeping car?
16. Which of these is not a member of Enid Blyton's Famous Five?
17. Who was Sancho Panza companion to?
18. Which of these is a Canadian journalist, documentary-maker and BBC presenter?
19. Which American jazz musician, clarinettist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman", in the mid-1930s led one of the most popular musical groups in America, which was also one of the first racially-integrated musical groups?
20. How many pieces are on a chessboard at the start of a game?
21. Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the prize for, among other things, determining the chemical structure of what in 1945?
22. Which of these is a type of omelette originating from Spain?
23. The phrase "treble bob major" is associated with which of these activities?
24. Which body or object has consistently the highest average density currently known in the universe?
25. In bridge, the four players are referred to as what?
26. What field of activity does the phrase "on tenterhooks" refer to?
27. What is the name for a musical work primarily designed to develop the technique of an instrumentalist?
28. There is a "famed Tahiti Beach" on the .....
29. The phrase "beyond the pale" refers to the history of which country?
30. A famous US trial in 1950 involved Whittaker Chambers and who else?
31. In 2012 an annual international event, GODZone, was established in New Zealand for competitors in what?
32. In what situation would an aubade be played?
33. Who are most likely to perform a "pas de deux" ?
34. Which river rises in dense forest in Zambian highlands, then flows through Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and into the Indian Ocean?
35. Which country had, at various times, included areas known at various times as Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, Vojvodina, Kosovo, Istria and Rijeka?
36. What natural effect is only visible during a total eclipse of the sun?
37. Which was the first of the Baltic states to be occupied, and then absorbed as a constituent republic, by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?
38. According to the nursery rhyme, how much was the Pieman selling his pies for when Simple Simon met him going to the fair?
39. Which of these, the most popular spectator sport in Ireland, is a form of football played mainly in Ireland by teams of 15 on a rectangular grass pitch with H-shaped goals at each end?
40. Where is the South American railway stretch popularly known as "El Zig-Zag" found?
41. Where was the Koinon, the Commons or Commonwealth, of the Zagorisians?
42. What was the first name of Beatrix Potter's character called Puddleduck?
43. What was the title of the 2001 film that was a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs?
44. Which 1959 film, directed by François Truffaut with music by Jean Constatin, was the story of a 13 year old Parisian (played by Jean-Pierre Leaud) falling into delinquency?
45. When was "I'll See You in My Dreams", composed by Isham Jones with lyrics by Gus Kahn, first recorded?
46. The word "Scandinavian" refers to which part of the world?
47. What book published in 1864 by William Wallace Mitchell, a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, became the basis of the rules of a modern game?
48. Auguste Escoffier was famous for what activity?
49. The first novel by American writer Téa Obreht, set in an unnamed country in the Balkans featuring a young doctor, her grandfather, the stories he tells her, death, and a deaf-mute girl who befriended a tiger, is named "The Tiger's ..... [what] ..... "?
50. What is a tipstaff?
51. Where does the oxygen-and nutrient-rich Cromwell Current flow?
52. The ancient city of Persepolis was an important centre for which ancient state religion?
53. Which of these requires the least area for competition?
54. Who defeated the Persians in the sea battle at Salamis in 480BC?
55. What device, a tool for studying astronomical phenomena, uses the fact that when a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material?
56. In the 1970 UK general election, who was elected MP for North Antrim, became the longest serving MP from Northern Ireland, and led the Democratic Unionist Party from 1971 to 2008?
57. Where was the volcano which erupted in 1815 in what is considered the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history?
58. Who was the writer of histories such as "Life of Nelson", long narrative poems and translations of Spanish writing?
59. What name is given to a compound of carbon and hydrogen in various proportions?
60. In probability theory and statistics, what is a measure of the variability or dispersion of a population, a data set, or a probability distribution?
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