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General Knowledge Quiz 122 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who was the host of a TV variety show based in New York which was broadcast on Sunday nights from 20 June 1948 to 6 June 1971?
2. In the American sitcom "Full House" (1987-1995) the widowed father of the three children in the house asks whom, to help him bring them up?
3. In 1951 and 1952, American Jim Fuchs won 88 consecutive meetings and set four world records in what sport?
4. What sign of the zodiac is represented by a sheep?
5. According to Greek mythology, who accompanied Jason on his journey to find the Golden Fleece?
6. What paraffin-derived clear, transparent liquid developed in 1924 by W. J. Stoddard and Lloyd E. Jackson began to be used by dry cleaners in 1928 and has become a common organic solvent used in painting and decorating?
7. Although an annual Thanksgiving Day had been observed in several colonies throughout what became the USA, who proclaimed USA's first national Thanksgiving Day?
8. What are karanga weka, pลซtลrino, and poi ฤwhiowhio?
9. What product name did Westerners in the 19th century give to the "road", or network of trade routes, across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe?
10. Which of these is the name for an ancient burial mound?
11. What team in 1905-6 is known as "The Originals" ?
12. Dili is the capital of which country?
13. Who was the first person, in 1969, to join the Rolling Stones after they had become well-established?
14. Which of these is part of a watering can?
15. An operation known since prehistory, to relieve pressure inside the skull or remove splintered bone is known as what?
16. Which of these is a TV drama series set in New Jersey which revolved around a mobster played by James Gandolfini and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads?
17. Creative director and film director Spike Jonze guides what, which was simultaneously launched in the USA and Canada in 2016?
18. Which of these is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, USA, founded in 1879 by Ed Schieffelin?
19. Which of these is a name for a book of directions for the preparation of medicines?
20. Where is the Burj Khalifa?
21. Which of these is an event in Olympic weightlifting?
22. Who is being spoken about with the Shakespearean line "Frailty, thy name is woman" ?
23. What was the name of the series of fantasy novels which were filmed as the TV series "The Game of Thrones" ?
24. Where was Norwegian painter Edvard Munch's home and studio for the last thirty years of his life, now a museum?
25. In what war was the Battle of Verdun fought?
26. "Solitaire" is known as a card game in many countries; what is used to play another game known as "Solitaire" in the UK?
27. What is the name for a large gathering of boy scouts?
28. Which of these is a weapon developed in South America?
29. Although jazz music is difficult to define which of these descriptions applies most?
30. What was the only sport competed at the first Stoke Mandeville Games, in 1948, later the Paralympics?
31. What sport is featured in the film "Blades of Glory", starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder?
32. What is a "perambulator" ?
33. Who won the women's singles titles at Wimbledon in 1982?
34. The Michael Phelps Foundation Golf Classic is an annual fundraiser for what?
35. Which calendar was different from its predecessor because leap years did not fall on years divisible by 100 unless they were also divisible by 400?
36. Where is NASA's Johnson Space Centre?
37. Onyx, chrysoprase, carnelian, and agate are forms of what?
38. What is a lemniscate?
39. What is the next in the series H, He, Li, Be, B ..... ?
40. What is seen when sodium is dropped into water?
41. Spinoff TV series from "Beverly Hills, 90210" included "Melrose Place", "90210" and which other?
42. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech on 28 August 1963?
43. Until 2020, which of these was not an Olympic sport?
44. How many รฏ"s are there in the adjective of "mischief" ?
45. Which of these programmes was a winner of a British Academy Television Award in 1999?
46. The Diocletian era, as a method of numbering years in Christian calendars based on the reign of Emperor Diocletian who instigated the last major persecution against Christians in the Roman Empire, calculates dates from what starting point?
47. What was the name given to rocks in the Straits of Messina opposite the whirlpool of Charybdis?
48. He is noted for fiction and non-fiction writing, including in history, music, science, and mathematics; his novels include "Gravity's Rainbow" , for which he won the 1973 US National Book Award for Fiction. Who is he?
49. Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Peter Mayhew are reprising some of the most famous film roles, filming 2014-5, but although they will be seen their faces will never appear. They are, respectively, C-3PO, R2-D2 and which other character?
50. Who wrote the children's books "Mr. Peabody's Apples" , ''Yakov and the Seven Thieves" , "The Adventures of Abdi" and "Lotsa De Casha" , that were published between 2003 and 2005?
51. Which canal allows ships to travel from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean?
52. When were England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland ruled jointly by a king and queen?
53. In November 2018, Russia fired upon and then seized three naval vessels in the Kerch Strait in the Sea of Azov. What country did the vessels belong to?
54. At various times Mauritania has hosted which of these?
55. Which of these is not a perfect number?
56. It was called by one government the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart" and by a neighbouring government the "Wall of Shame", what was it and when was construction started?
57. What nationality is previous tennis champion Bjorn Borg?
58. Who was the first Prime Minister of Great Britain born outside the British Isles?
59. Where are the Carpathian Mountains?
60. What instrument is played by blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite and Junior Wells?
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