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General Knowledge Quiz 123 (60 MCQs)

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1. The most successful tennis player to date, with 8 singles titles and 11 doubles titles, in the WTA Tour Championships was originally a citizen of which country?
2. When did the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire achieve the right to have legislative independence from the United Kingdom?
3. Besides being a composer, philosopher, poet, artist and printmaker, John Cage was a leading authority on what?
4. Who has the line "Is this a dagger which I see before me" in a Shakespearean play?
5. What dish consists of chicken pan-fried in a skillet and covered tightly after the initial browning so that the chicken steams as well as frying, with milk or cream added to the pan juices to create a white cream gravy?
6. In the early 20th century a French chef developed a soup he called Vichyssoise and placed it on the menu of which restaurant?
7. Which of these UK TV series does not include a real life husband and wife among its lead actors?
8. Where are the ports of Buenaventura, Tumaco, Santa Marta, Cartagena and Barranquilla?
9. Who played Dorothy in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz" ?
10. What organisation, formed by Reverend John Flynn and based in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia, began in 1928?.
11. Which of these is a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire and founded the city of Lima?
12. Who did Venus Williams defeat in 2001 to win her second consecutive US Open tennis title?
13. The Baltic Sea is along the shores of the Baltic States, Sweden and which other country?
14. Who was Vice President to US President Ronald Reagan during his terms from 1981 to 1989?
15. Kathleen Brennan produced albums for which musician, starting with his 1983 album "Swordfishtrombones" ?
16. Which Stoke City, Blackpool and England player was the first European Footballer of the Year in 1956?
17. P L Travers wrote the story on which of these films was based?
18. What ballroom dance, recognised by the World Dance Council in the category of "International Latin", comes from Brazil?
19. What is the generic title of a series of French comic strips that first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959?
20. Where is the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Cliffs of Bandiagara including burial caves of the ancient Tellem?
21. In which of these years was there a US presidential election?
22. Of the six African Great Lakes clustered along the long East African Rift Valley, which is the largest by volume of water?
23. How did Marvin Gaye, solo singer-songwriter from 1960s to the 1980s, die?
24. Which is closest to Pyongyang, capital of North Korea?
25. What wood, a member of the walnut family, is often used in making tool handles, wheel spokes, drumsticks, lacrosse stick handles and skis?
26. Until 1997 which was recognised as the most massive bacterium so far discovered, reaching up to .75mm in length and large enough to be visible to the naked eye?
27. Uranium is found in which of these ores?
28. In the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact after Germany conquered Poland in 1939 what happened to Poland?
29. Who became President of the USA on the death of Franklin D Roosevelt and remained in office until 1953?
30. Where did Mulligatawny enter the world cuisine from?
31. What can be deduced from cosmogenic nuclides?
32. Which of these is a root vegetable?
33. What is a b-girl or-boy?
34. Whose address is 9 Downing Street, London, next to that of the Prime Minister of the UK?
35. Who is the only US President who did not speak English as his first language?
36. What name was commonly used for the struggle that emerged after World War II between capitalism and communism that centred around the USSR & the USA and their partners, that lasted from about 1947 to 1991?
37. Apart from the official Rumi, or Roman, script what script is common in Malaysia?
38. The character Grace Kelly featured in which American TV series?
39. American rapper Tramar Dillard is better known by what stage name?
40. Which country, after its Act of Union agreement expired, held a four-day plebiscite in 1944 and became an independent republic on 17 June 1944, with Sveinn Björnsson as the first President?
41. Which of these is a composer, best known for writing hymns?
42. Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson competed against each other in the 1940s in which sport?
43. Why were the fossilised remains of an extinct race, discovered in 1856, called "Neanderthal man" ?
44. What caused a major oil spill in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA in August 1993?
45. Which of these people was a co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine?
46. Périgordins are what or who?
47. Meryl Streep plays which American chef, author and television personality in a 2009 film written and directed by Nora Ephron?
48. Sputnik Planum, near to Tombaugh Regio, is found where?
49. An arm of which ocean lies to the east of the island which was for a time called Formosa?
50. Which of these is a theory about the creation of the universe?
51. What is another name for the Southern Boobook owl, also called the Mopoke or Ruru?
52. Who was vice president to George H W Bush?
53. Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes developed what online computer application?
54. A hi-hat, jam block, octoban, rototom and trigger pad are all parts of what?
55. The Iron Cross was awarded to soldiers in World Wars I and II by which country?
56. What are alternative names for "typhus" ?
57. The longest-running speech radio show in the world (58 years) that was discontinued in March 2004, was Alistair Cooke's "Letter from ..... " where?
58. The character Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) featured in his own successful spin-off ("Frasier") from which US TV series?
59. Which of these is meat that comes from a pig?
60. What did the "V" used by Albert Einstein in early papers on relativity stand for?
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