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General Knowledge Quiz 130 (60 MCQs)

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1. Why is the city of Williamsburg, the capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1780, so named?
2. Who scored the league winning goal for Manchester City in the 2011/12 Premier League season?
3. What name is given to musical lines that sound different and move independently from each other, but sound harmonious when played simultaneously?
4. Which of these terms comes from cricket?
5. Cricketer W G Grace, who played first-class cricket from 1865 to 1908, also captained England from 1903 to 1908 in what other sport?
6. Which high profile tennis star was controversially linked by the host country for the 2022 Winter Olympics to the last months of its build up to the Games?
7. What is the fictional character "Babar" ?
8. Who won a (then) record seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich?
9. Which river, the world's deepest on record and the second largest river in the world by discharge volume, rises in the highlands and mountains of the East African Rift?
10. The last line of which 1939 film, spoken by Judy Garland, is "If I ever again go looking for my heart's desire, I won't go looking any further than my own backyard" ?
11. Who was England's goalkeeper when they won the soccer World Cup Final in 1966?
12. What is or are the machair?
13. The Mérida Initiative agreed in 2008 to combat the threats of drug trafficking, transnational organised crime and money laundering is an agreement for co-operation between which countries?
14. In the song "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones, what words follow the line "I see the girls walk by" ?
15. What is "tartine" ?
16. What is common to the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai, Kwanini The Manta Resort in Zanzibar, Hotell Utter Inn in Sweden and Subsix at Niyama in the Maldives?
17. In which continent did Allan Quatermain, the explorer in H. Ryder Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines", search for the mines?
18. When did East Germany build the Berlin Wall?
19. What was the background for the UK TV series "Whitechapel" ?
20. Where is something usually called "dark matter" found?
21. Of the 6 Winter Olympics held between 1988 and 2006, how many were outside of Europe?
22. Where are The Prince Edward Islands, two islands named Marion Island and Prince Edward Island, which are politically part of South Africa?
23. Which of these words is a common English word for moonshine, illicitly-distilled corn whiskey?
24. Where is Howard Hughes's wooden aeroplane the Hughes H-4 Hercules (the "Spruce Goose") stored?
25. What is the name given to the planet Venus when it appears in the West after sunset?
26. The first Pierre de Coubertin medal awarded was to Eugenio Monti who competed in what discipline in the 1964 Winter Olympics?
27. From 1808 to 1814 Spain was occupied by which other country?
28. Which brass musical instrument has a slide mechanism that enables the sounding length of the tube to be adjusted?
29. Why did Devon and Cornwall assume considerable status in Britain and Europe during the early Bronze Age?
30. Ochlophobia is a fear of what?
31. Most of Paraguay is what land type?
32. In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" for nought on the third ball they face?
33. In early 1998 the North American National Basketball Association began what, which lasted until 1999?
34. What musical is based on the music of Rod Stewart?
35. What is a placket?
36. Which of these is a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet who worked mainly in the 20th century, who was one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism?
37. The Treaty of San Francisco established the ending of hostilities between which countries, and when?
38. How many pedals are standard on a grand piano in the USA?
39. Which of these was an American author, known for the extravagant lifestyle that he lived in the 1920s with his wife Zelda?
40. What does the record industry term "A & R" stand for?
41. What distinguishes a yorker in cricket?
42. What is the largest inland delta?
43. The flag of which South American country or organisation features a golden sun with 32 rays, 16 straight and 16 wavy, in its centre?
44. When Olof Palme, Prime Minister of his country at the time, died in 1986 what was the cause?
45. What is Le Figaro?
46. The 2018 Winter Olympics were the first such games in which Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia and which other country or countries had participated?
47. What does a hangdog expression imply?
48. Benjamin Franklin founded America's first what in Philadelphia in 1736?
49. If you were to receive a floral tribute, what would you expect?
50. What is a bailiwick?
51. According to Greek mythology, which of these was a young man from Abydos who fell in love with a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos, at the edge of the Hellespont, on the other side of the strait?
52. What is the name of the new toy round whom the action of "Toy Story 4" (2019) is centred?
53. What was the Raspberry Pi developed to be?
54. The migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to the city of Medina in 622, which marked year one of the Islamic calendar, was known as what?
55. If something beggars belief it is what?
56. What is the opposite side from starboard on a ship?
57. In 1906 there was a major earthquake in which of these cities?
58. What is the most frequent definition in mathematics of a straight line?
59. What is the title of the most famous painting by Franz Hals?
60. Which of these is part of a computer?
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