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General Knowledge Quiz 133 (60 MCQs)

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1. Someone with whom one used to be in love is "an old ..... " what?
2. Which of these was invented by French physician René Laennec early in the 19th century?
3. Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist Buffy Sainte-Marie won the 2015 Polaris Music Prize for what album?
4. In 2016 UNESCO marked a four-cave complex in the sheer limestone cliffs of eastern Gibraltar as a World Heritage Site for its place in preserving and demonstrating what?
5. A Hellenist is an expert on subjects pertaining to what?
6. This plant is the only genus in its family, native to Asia, Europe and Western North America, usually 0.25-1 m (1-3 ft) tall but some plants reach 3.5 m (11 ft) tall, with large, often fragrant flowers, purple, pink, red, white or yellow. What is it?
7. If palmistry uses the features of the hand and palm to predict a person's future, what is the name for the same process using feet?
8. What is a synonym for "irritable" ?
9. The white ball in snooker is called the what ball?
10. What type of speech includes the words "for", "and", "nor", "but", "or", "yet", and "so" ?
11. Vermont, USA, is known as which of these?
12. What does the Scottish dish bridie most resemble?
13. In what year did clubs in the first division of the English Football League, founded in 1888, break away and found the Premier League?
14. When is Ötzi the Iceman, discovered in the Alps between Austria and Italy, believed to have lived?
15. The popular UK TV series "Mapp and Lucia" (2014) and "Sherlock" (2010-now) share the talents of which of these people?
16. The Hay Wain is a painting by which of these artists?
17. In chess, castling involves the rook and which other piece?
18. What facial feature is missing from the Mona Lisa?
19. What is an antirrhinum?
20. Which play by Arthur Miller used events from early US history to mirror Senator McCarthy's communist witch hunts in the 1950s?
21. What was the setting for "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", a 2008 film directed by Mark Herman starring Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, and Vera Farmiga, based on the book by John Boyne?
22. What game involving reptiles is based on the Indian game called Vaikuntapaoli or Paramapada Sopanam?
23. Which mountain range runs through the US states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico?
24. Which of these is the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding?
25. The Italian cheese called dolcelatte translates into English as what?
26. Although well-known for the dance styles he popularised, which singer, equally known for his music, released as his first single "The Class" which demonstrated his singing in multiple styles?
27. Who was known as "The Godfather of Soul" ?
28. Alberta is one of two Canadian provinces that is land-locked. What is the other?
29. What is the name of the daughter of Ginger Spice (Geri Halliwell), born in 2006?
30. What letters of the modern basic Latin alphabet do not occur in the Turkish alphabet?
31. Who recorded his ground-breaking research on the properties of magnetic iron ore, the Earth's magnetism, and static "electricus" in the book "On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth" (published 1600)?
32. "April is in my mistress' face, And July in her eyes hath place" are the first two lines of what popular work in Britain?
33. Most of Yellowstone National Park is in which state?
34. Which endangered large sea duck winters over exclusively in polynyas in the Arctic?
35. In August 2005 the robotic rover Spirit explored the surface of what?
36. Which medieval work of literature, sometimes called the world's first novel, is still available today?
37. Who was the 2005 European Eventing Champion?
38. Who are Alvin, Simon, Theodore, and Dave?
39. Which Pope was carried off into France by Bonaparte's troops in 1798?
40. In what is "quotient" a technical term?
41. What were the people who were part of Elvis Presley's entourage known as?
42. Who was the English King during the US War of Independence?
43. Pilgrims visit the city of Santiago de Compostela because it is supposedly the site of the bones of which saint?
44. Who was the Iranian-US citizen who was jailed early in 2009 in Evin Prison, Teheran with an 8 year sentence for alleged spying?
45. What is the name used in the USA for the board game that the English call "draughts" ?
46. Under the Treaty of Breda (31 July 1667), negotiated to end the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch kept the colony of Suriname conquered from the English, and left the English with what area of land?
47. What is the name for the order of insects, such as mosquitoes, house flies and gnats, with 2 membranous, usually transparent, wings?
48. What do the initials in the UK TV show "QI" represent?
49. Who played the lead character in the surreal 1998 film "The Truman Show" ?
50. Betty Lou Oliver held a long-standing Guinness World Record for what event that occurred at 9:40 a.m. on 28 July 1945?
51. What river is the Aswan Dam built on?
52. What is an "epiphany" ?
53. What are Italy's national colours?
54. The Haast's eagle is the largest eagle known; where does it live?
55. The bullseye of a dart board should be how far up from the floor?
56. Who played the joker in the 2008 film "The Dark Knight" ?
57. Which of these is a type of bat?
58. Why is the America's Cup so called?
59. The official World Cup for which sport, held every second year from 1986 to 2004 and annually thereafter, is hosted by a number of countries from Canada, USA, UK, multiple European countries, to Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland?
60. Abu Simbel is in which country?
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