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General Knowledge Quiz 127 (60 MCQs)

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1. In the nursery rhyme, who sat on a wall and had a great fall?
2. In the IT field, with what are the names "Lisa" and "Twiggy" associated?
3. Which company established the TV series "SmackDown" in 1999?
4. In what sport would one "bully off" ?
5. The city of Las Vegas is in which US state?
6. The Chicago White Sox won the baseball World Series in 2005. When had they last won it?
7. Which of these was never a member of the Rolling Stones?
8. Who was the elected President of Mexico from 1877 after the overthrow and execution of Emperor Maximilian until, with a gap from 1880 to 1884, a rebellion in 1911?
9. Who created the character of Dame Edna Everage?
10. Who called foxhunting "The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable" ?
11. John Cleese played what character in the film "The World is not Enough" ?
12. Bayer A.G., which was the first company to market aspirin, and heroin (as a non-addictive cough suppressant), originally manufactured what?
13. What is the longest river in the world?
14. If Andrew ran 72 miles in 16 hours, on average how many miles did he run per hour?
15. What is the formal title of Guernsey, the British Crown Dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy?
16. Where did Princess Diana, ex-wife of the Prince of Wales, UK, die?
17. To which city would you go to see "Grant's Tomb", a memorial to Ulysses S Grant, once President of the USA?
18. The French Academy of Sciences was founded, Shah Jahan (the builder of the Taj Mahal) died, and the Great Fire of London burnt in what year?
19. In which state of the USA is the private research university known as M. I. T.?
20. The Treaty of Kiel, between the UK, Sweden and Denmark-Norway was intended to ease hostilities relating to which war?
21. Which is one of the materials recommended for caviar serving spoons?
22. Which author is the ex-wife of British designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer Sir Terence and the mother of designers Sebastian and Jasper?
23. How many sides does a trapezoid have?
24. When was the first public passenger train run in India?
25. Which French singer and actress was in a relationship with American actor Johnny Depp from 1998 to 2012, with whom she has a daughter and a son?
26. Which of these is not one of the Hindu Trinity?
27. Who discovered Uranus in 1781?
28. When was the first Zeppelin, of which the Hindenburg was the last disastrous example in 1937, first successfully flown?
29. What links American Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) and James Wyld (1812-1887) MP for Bodmin, UK?
30. Which of these was a 14th century Mongol emperor who chose Samarkand as his capital?
31. What is the name for an argument presented in logical form, containing 2 premises and a conclusion?
32. A 1982 film directed by Ingmar Bergman, initially prepared for television as a 4 part serial, was what?
33. What is Britain's richest horse race?
34. In which country is the city of Tangier?
35. What was the first general-purpose electronic computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems which, though designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the US Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, was first used in calculations for the hydrogen bomb?
36. In Morse code, what letter is represented by "dash dash dash" ?
37. In April 1969, Pope Paul VI approved the "new Order of Mass" (promulgated in 1970), which included radical changes to Catholic Church rituals. Which of these was not one of them?
38. What is a method of preserving and sterilising food, in which a product is processed under very high pressure, leading to the inactivation of certain microorganisms and enzymes in it?
39. Which of these is British slang for someone from the Liverpool area?
40. The Queen of the Night appears in which of these operas?
41. Who was the British sugar merchant who donated his collection of 65 paintings to the nation in 1892, together with cash to provide a building to house them?
42. Who became the first king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel after the revolt of the ten northern Israelite tribes against Rehoboam, who reigned for twenty-two years in the 900sBCE?
43. Christiaan Huygens has been credited with inventing what in the 1650s?
44. What does the internationally prized "Wallace cut" refer to?
45. Who was killed when a helicopter crashed in dense fog on 27 August 1990 in East Troy, Wisconsin?
46. Charlie Sheen starred as which character in the TV series "Two and a Half Men" ?
47. When Britain fought the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the forces it opposed were from France and which other country?
48. Who did Roger Federer beat at Wimbledon in 2009 to gain the record number of Grand Slam tennis tournaments?
49. According to the Bible's Book of Genesis, the Five Cities of the Plain near the Dead Sea were Adimah, Zebolim, Zour, Gomorrah and which other?
50. Which of these is a heart muscle?
51. What is the meaning in the West African Manding languages of the name of the Nko, or N'Ko, alphabetic script devised by Solomana Kanté in 1949 as a modern writing system for those languages?
52. In Belgium, what are "polders" ?
53. Which of these painters was born first?
54. At the first World Karate Championships in 1970 in Japan which countries gained the greatest medal totals-Japan, USA, Canada and what other country?
55. Which of these is a resort town north-east of Paris that is known for its horse racing and lace production?
56. Which of these can be found in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia?
57. Alecia Beth Moore is better known by what stage name?
58. On 31 May 2010, the President of which country announced his resignation after local politicians criticised comments he made in relation to overseas military deployments?
59. Which monarch presided in Great Britain over the time of the French Revolution, Britain's loss of its American colonies, and two decisive defeats of the French?
60. "The Star-Spangled Banner", "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", "This Land Is Your Land" and "Stars and Stripes Forever" are patriotic songs of which country?
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