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General Knowledge Quiz 134 (60 MCQs)

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1. Until and including the birth of her twins in July 2008, how many children, including adopted children, did Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have?
2. When is International Women's Day?
3. What is Greyball?
4. Which image set a record for most liked on Instagram?
5. In cooking, which of these is a kind of gentle mixing?
6. In 1968 a nearly 1, 000 year old grave was excavated in Suontaka, Finland, of a person highly respected in their community but unusual in what respect?
7. Two of the characters in the US TV sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" are fans of work by whom, the source for their respective names?
8. The book "The Open Side 2012" was written by playwright Greg McGee with who else?
9. Which German composer wrote 16 operas including "Salome", "Electra" and "Der Rosenkavalier" ?
10. The only known vertebrate-microorganism symbiosis happens between which of these?
11. The cities Ceuta, Melilla, and islands Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, Peñón de Alhucemas, the Chafarinas, and the disputed island of Perejil are on or off the North African coast. Which country includes them in its territories?
12. The religious statue above Rio de Janeiro stands on what mountain?
13. The Australian city of Adelaide is on which river?
14. What are neutrinos?
15. Which of these is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur with a large bony frill and three horns on a large four-legged body which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period in North America?
16. What is the basis of the 2022 musical "A Beautiful Noise" ?
17. What name is given to a 25th wedding anniversary?
18. In which book of the Hebrew and Christian bibles do Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego appear?
19. Blood Wedding (1932) by Garcia Lorca was based on elements of a true story which happened when?
20. Which Russian composer wrote the ballets "The Firebird", "Petrouchka" and "The Rite of Spring" ?
21. "Don't Cha" and "Stickwitu" were #1 hit singles for which group?
22. Where did the "Mayflower", carrying the Pilgrim Fathers, early settlers to Massachusetts, America, sail from in 1620?
23. Who commanded No. 11 Group RAF, responsible for the fighter defence of London and southeast England, which took the brunt of the German air attacks in the Battle of Britain?
24. Which of these is the earliest TV series to be made starring David Jason?
25. How many US states begin with the letter "O" ?
26. In 1949 what Emirate was constitutionally renamed the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan?
27. Who directed the 1960 film "Spartacus" ?
28. Who, the illegitimate son of a peasant girl, was educated in the studio of a Florentine painter, spent much of his early working life in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan, worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and spent his final years in France at the home given to him by King François I?
29. Which was the last imperial dynasty to rule in China?
30. A two-wheeled self-powered and self-balancing vehilce unveiled in 2001 is called what?
31. What is carried in a bulse?
32. Who was the London-based Australian music impresario who managed John Leyton, Cream, Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees?
33. The lumbar region of the human body contains how many vertebrae?
34. Which of these equations accurately represents the relationship between the square of a number and the product of one less and one greater than that number?
35. What or who would be an expected inhabitant of a hoosegow?
36. What is the name of the square in the UK TV series "EastEnders" ?
37. What are "crepuscular animals" ?
38. Which of these events happened after the birth of Princess Anne, the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II?
39. The Central Criminal Court, London, which is also known as "The Old Bailey", stands on the site of what structure, now demolished?
40. At the end of the film "The Bridge On The River Kwai", who blew up the bridge?
41. Ecuador enacted what, as Objective 4 of its constitution, in 2008?
42. What is the name of the approach to music education that was devised by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze in 1905 and is still being used?
43. Where are the palatine bones?
44. What was the first building in London to be erected on a steel frame, which was opened in 1904?
45. What term is used for a volcanic rock that is a solidified frothy lava typically created when super-heated, highly pressurised rock is violently ejected from a volcano, formed when lava and water are mixed, due to the simultaneous actions of rapid cooling and rapid depressurisation?
46. British-born American film actor Archibald Alec Leach was better known by which stage name?
47. What is the word for a small amount of money?
48. The Cimbrian Peninsula known as Jutland contains land in which two countries?
49. The Executive Residence in the White House, Washington D.C., USA, has how many storeys above ground?
50. In which of these games or sports could the title of Grandmaster, or Grand Master, be achievable?
51. Who was the captain of "The Titanic" on its maiden voyage?
52. Argentinian David Nalbandian is a professional player of what sport?
53. In 1770, how many died in, or as a result of, what was labelled the Boston Massacre which fuelled the ferment that led to the American fight for independence from the British?
54. In the 19th century a French custom with books of erotic fiction was reportedly to do what?
55. In the Christian calendar, what is the name for the Sunday before Easter, the first Sunday of Holy Week?
56. Which late nineteenth-century municipality overlooking the northern part of lake Mjøsa and the river Lågen and surrounded by mountains, hosted both the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics?
57. Which common and stable isotope is the standard against which the atomic weights of all other elements are measured?
58. When did France formally recognise the United States of America?
59. In the acronym "gigo" as it relates to information technology, what do the two "g"s stand for?
60. The first English prince to bear the title "Prince of Wales" eventually became which King?
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