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General Knowledge Quiz 124 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who was the defending champion, and champion agaikn, in the 2014 World Chess Championship?
2. Which US film actress married and divorced both Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan?
3. On 25 April 1945, in which city did a group of nations begin to draft the Charter of the United Nations?
4. The line "It's the only thing that there's just too little of" is from which song?
5. Which Irish art director and production designer, who worked in America for Edison and Goldwyn film studios, and then for MGM from 1924 to 1956, was one of the original 36 founding members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
6. What international organisation was created in 1958 to bring about economic integration between European nations?
7. What are the topmost 7 vertebrae of the backbone called?
8. Measured in 2012, which of these countries had the highest population numbers?
9. Which of these can be a definition of "miner" ?
10. What was the name that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to his package of economic programmes in the mid 1930s with the goals of "the 3 R's":Relief to the unemployed & farmers, Reform of business and financial practices, and Recovery of the economy?
11. What was the first known contact by Europeans with the people of the islands known at one time as New Hebrides?
12. Six Korfball World Championships were held last century, the first in 1978. Which country won them the most times?
13. What is the southern-most Australian state capital?
14. Which tennis player held the top ranking for 160 consecutive weeks from July 1974, to August 1977, and an additional eight times during his career (a total of 268 weeks), winning 8 Grand Slam singles titles and two Grand Slam doubles titles (with Ilie Năstase)?
15. Which of these was a famous British artist?
16. What is one thing which distinguishes narwhals from dolphins and most other whales?
17. The initial slogan for the American War of Independence was "No taxation without ..... " what?
18. Which is the only butterfly known to overwinter in its adult form?
19. The people of which country are the majority in the eastern foothills of the Annamese Cordillera?
20. Where would one find a famous example of a campanile that is not properly vertical?
21. The islands of Malta, Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica are in which Sea?
22. Which of these cooking methods does not involve water or similar liquid in some stage of the process?
23. Which of these is a shade of blue?
24. Elizabeth Ashton, Fritz Ligges, Josef Neckermann, Bridget Parker, Mark Phillips and Harvey Smith competed in what sports at the 1972 Olympic Games?
25. Where is the extremely large lagoon known as Lagoa dos Patos?
26. Where was the Mary Celeste headed when she sailed in 1872 but was found adrift and deserted mid-Atlantic less than a month later?
27. Which of these songs is not by Hoagy Carmichael?
28. How does the World Health Organisation (WHO) define health?
29. Which city was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles as a trading settlement in 1819?
30. On All Saints' Eve, 31 October, in 1517 a treatise which is regarded as a primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation was popularly described as being nailed to the door of where in Germany?
31. As musical instruments, tubular bells are what kind?
32. In which country was there a civil war which lasted several decades following independence in November 1975, when three main guerrilla groups, the FNLA, MPLA and UNITA, fought each other?
33. The Waverley in Scotland is the world's last what?
34. Who was Britain's only Prime Minister of Jewish birth?
35. The eruption of Mt Tarawera in New Zealand almost destroyed the natural wonder, the Pink and White Terraces. When did this happen?
36. Which of these might be used to add a sweet, sour, fruity smell and taste to food?
37. What battle cry of Richard I at the Battle of Gisors in 1198 was adopted as the motto of the arms of England where, except for changes during the reigns of Elizabeth I, Anne and William III, it has been since 1340?
38. Buckey O'Neill Cabin, Kolb Studio, El Tovar Hotel, Hopi House, Verkamp's Curios, Lookout Studio, Desert View Watchtower and Bright Angel Lodge are historical buildings located at which tourist destination?
39. Who was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the UK from 1930 to 1967, who is best remembered for the classic children's novels "The Midnight Folk" and "The Box of Delights" and many poems, including "Sea-Fever" from his anthology "Saltwater Ballads" ?
40. Why were the Winter Olympic Games at Lillehammer in 1994 held only 2 years after the previous ones, at Albertsville?
41. Which TV comedy series started screening first?
42. When did Francisco Franco take power to rule Spain?
43. Whose services, at least originally, did competitors in an archery contest need?
44. With what is Christopher H. Lloyd most associated?
45. Which of these rivers runs through Denver, Colorado, USA?
46. Urticaria affects what part of the body?
47. What test is the character played by Domnhall Gleeson asked to administer to the android in the film "Ex Machina" ?
48. Which of these is a reversible figured fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibres, with a pattern formed by weaving?
49. What was the 7 m (23 ft) tall bronze statue of Christ the Redeemer of the Andes created to encourage and then celebrate?
50. In baseball, what is the name of the position where the pitcher stands to throw the ball to a batter of the opposing team?
51. Which of these countries has the highest population?
52. Which parts of the Earth's surface are thought to closest to the core?
53. Modern versions of which appliance (commonplace by the 1970s in domestic residences in the USA) are descended from the 1886 invention of Josephine Cochrane which she unveiled at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
54. Where is the newspaper "The Village Voice" published?
55. Meerkats are native to which continent?
56. Queen Salote Tubou ruled over which country from 1918 to 1965?
57. Staten Island, New York, is at the mouth of which river?
58. What is Norway's currency?
59. Which of these is another name for passion fruit, which grows in India, New Zealand, the Caribbean, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Peru, California, Florida, Haiti, Hawaii, Australia, East Africa, Israel and South Africa?
60. When Europeans came to their land, the Charrúa people were the predominant tribe in what became which country?
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