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General Knowledge Quiz 129 (60 MCQs)

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1. In 2015 the IDA designated a 36, 000 hectare site in the Elqui Valley of northern Chile as what?
2. Roger Federer failed to reach the men's singles final at Wimbledon in 2010. When was the previous time that he had failed to do so?
3. Which of these is a soup that is served cold?
4. Who discovered Uranus and one of its moons, Titania, between 1781 and 1787?
5. The Babylonians invented the clepsydra. What was it?
6. The 2010 film "The Tooth Fairy", starring Dwayne Johnson, Julie Andrews and Billy Crystal, concerns a player of which sport?
7. What nationality was architect Oscar Niemeyer, prominent in the team which designed the United Nations headquarters in New York City and later chief architect of the public buildings for the new Brazilian capital Brasilia?
8. Lake Erie is connected to Lake Ontario by which canal?
9. Eddie Murphy starred in a remake of which Jerry Lewis comedy?
10. What is the most populous country that has English as an official language?
11. What is the term for a section of a building that runs at right angles to the main body, giving the shape of a "T" or a cross?
12. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, served in what service in World War II?
13. In November 1983 a bomb was exploded in the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C. What was the reason given?
14. What style of American Football founded in 2003 is a full-contact 7 a side game where uniforms consist of helmets, shoulder pads, elbow pads, knee pads, bras, and panties?
15. What caused a fire in 1937 in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility?
16. What is a popular, although not fully accurate, name for carnotite?
17. The TV series "The Bletchley Circle" (2012-2014) centres on four women reuniting shortly after the end of the Second World War to use their, now longer recognised, skills honed in what field during the war?
18. What is the sclera?
19. What term is used to describe a certain type of documentary?
20. Which of these states of the USA is part of New England?
21. The planet Mercury was photographed in 1974 and 1975 by which spacecraft?
22. Who, according to Greek legend, was forced to stand up to his neck in water which receded when he tried to drink, under fruits which were blown aside by the wind when he tried to eat?
23. What was the popular name for Joseph Stalin by Americans during World War II?
24. In which country, independent since 10 October 1970, have there been four coups:two in 1987 (when the military began ruling directly or heavily influencing governments), one in 2000 and one in late 2006?
25. Which club drug, particularly popular, and fatal, in some areas, was originally developed as an anaesthetic and painkiller and used mainly by veterinary surgeons?
26. What is an appropriate technique for a zither?
27. What is the official currency of Suriname?
28. Camelot was the legendary court of whom?
29. Which present day country has subsumed the empire of the Ashanti which emerged in the late 17th century?
30. What is a word game played using a grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters?
31. The worst three natural disasters in recorded history (excluding disease and famine) in terms of the number of people killed, have occurred in which country?
32. Where is the Luangwa Rift Valley?
33. In what sport is the Ryder Cup awarded?
34. When was the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty opened for signature?
35. Which episode of Star Wars is being filmed 2014-15?
36. In Greek mythology, which horned and hoofed being was the god of shepherds, pastures, and fertility?
37. Who is credited with having invented the backstaff, used until the 18th century for determining latitude by reading the angle of elevation of the sun?
38. Where is the opera "Dialogues of the Carmelites" set?
39. Which of these items is termed "whiteware" ?
40. Jill Munroe, Sabrina Duncan, Kelly Garrett, Kris Munroe, Tiffany Welles and Julie Rogers were characters in which US TV series?
41. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë tells the story of which two lovers?
42. Which of these began life as a 1954 play for radio by Dylan Thomas?
43. In the film "Home Alone", what is the name of the character who is left alone at Christmas, played by Macaulay Culkin?
44. Who wrote "Little Women" ?
45. A commentator in 1835 in England described two men at their first meeting as, variously, "full of trickery and treachery-he has no ethics" and "as deadly and as poisonous as a rattlesnake with about the same ethics"; what were they doing together?
46. Which president of the USA lent his name to a species of elk?
47. The 1969 drama "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" directed by Sydney Pollack centres on what event?
48. Which pen manufacturer was founded in 1891 in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA?
49. The singer and English TV personality Priscilla White is better known by what name?
50. Who is recognised as the first to identify, and name, dark matter in the universe?
51. She trained as a goldsmith, has been a film actress, and a lead and solo singer with international and European hits under what name?
52. Which item of footwear can be applied to starting up a computer?
53. The 1605 plot by discontented Catholics including Guy Fawkes to blow up the English parliament and their king is popularly known as what?
54. What are the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron known as?
55. What Australian weekly magazine founded by two Sydney journalists, J.F. Archibald and John Haynes, which first appeared on 31 January 1880, ceased publication on 23 January 2008?
56. "Die Fledermaus" is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II. What is a "fledermaus" ?
57. Which of these countries reaches furthest north?
58. On 12 November 1991 pro-independence student demonstrators in Dili who were protesting the Indonesian occupation of East Timor were shot at by Indonesian forces, killing at least 250. Where were they at the time?
59. In 1987, the Fédéracion International del Volleyball arranged the first World Beach Volleyball Championships, which was played where?
60. What is a common name for the Yucca Palm, Yucca brevifolia?
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