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General Knowledge Quiz 135 (60 MCQs)

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1. In botany, what is the word for the scar left on a tree or plant after a leaf falls?
2. At which Olympics was the first Olympic athlete tested positive for the use of banned performance-enhancing drugs?
3. Viewed from Earth, Venus crosses the sun twice every 100 to 120 years or so, about 8 years apart. The next is on 10-11 December 2117. When was the last?
4. In 2003, which planet passed 55.76 million km from earth, the closest since the Stone Age?
5. Who was Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government and Prime Minister of Russia from 21 July 1917 (following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II) to 8 November 1917 (the Bolshevik revolution), who is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery, London?
6. What were the two contestants in a race in 1830 from Baltimore to Ohio in the USA?
7. Otto Lilienthal was an inventor whose designs and practice led to the first practical what in the 1890s?
8. What is the commercial system called "Bubble Barrier" used for?
9. Where is Nagaland?
10. Who was the first soccer player to win 100 caps for England?
11. Which of these trains stops at Lille?
12. Which of these films was not directed by Sergio Leone?
13. Model Brooklyn Decker, who was the Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover girl in 2010, is married to which sportsman?
14. What is the holy book of Shintoism?
15. Which Beatle played the role of Private Gripweed in Richard Lester's film "How I Won The War", co-starring Michael Crawford, released in 1967?
16. What is the name of Tony and Cherie Blair's daughter?
17. Who married the woman who was to become Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, on 10 March 1966?
18. On a Monopoly board, what is the symbol for "Chance" ?
19. In which radio programme did the morbidly super-intelligent character, Marvin, first feature?
20. The Latin word from which the term "verb" is derived means what?
21. In 17th century Italian theatre what commedia dell'arte character had two fathers?
22. What did the term "scallywag" refer to in America in the 19th century?
23. The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire except for where?
24. Which of these wines comes from Spain?
25. In September 1581, Francis Drake became mayor of which of these cities?
26. Which song contains the following characters:a banker who never wore a mac even in the pouring rain, a fireman with an hourglass and a portrait of the Queen in his pocket, a pretty nurse who sold poppies from a tray, & a barber who had photographs of heads he'd worked on?
27. What book includes the characters Dill, "Boo" Radley, Scout Finch, her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus?
28. What is the answer if you multiply all of the numbers on the number keypad of a cellphone or a keyboard?
29. The major geologic exposures in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, range in age from the 2 billion year old Vishnu Schist layers at the bottom of the Inner Gorge to the 230 million year old layer on the Rim which is called what?
30. In August 1914 the UK passed an Act to give powers to suppress published criticism, imprison without trial, make regulations creating criminal offences, and commandeer resources for war effort. How was it known colloquially?
31. Which peoples are native to the Aleutian Islands, Kodiak Island, the lower Alaska and Kenai Peninsulas, and Prince William Sound in Alaska?
32. Who painted mostly in egg tempera, is best known for "Christina's World", and whose common subject was Helga Testorf?
33. Which 1st century Athenian dramatist wrote over 100 tragedies, only 7 of which survive, including "Oedipus Rex", "Antigone" and "Electra" ?
34. In music, what does the term "Adagio" mean?
35. The kri-kri is a species of what?
36. What is one of the things for which Ludwig van Beethoven is remembered?
37. The long-standing textbook, "Anatomy", by Henry Gray (1827-1861) owed much of its effectiveness to the illustrations which were drawn by whom?
38. In what conflict did King Richard I of England (the Lionheart) die in 1199?
39. Who was the last President of the Fourth Republic of France, and the first President of the Fifth Republic?
40. Which of these words can refer to someone from a specific region of Croatia?
41. What did Emal Fraze invent in 1959 (and patented in 1963)?
42. Anthony Bourdain remains famous in what profession?
43. What leaves relieve pain caused by stinging nettle?
44. What was the name of Madonna's chain of fitness clubs?
45. Who was nicknamed "The Sweater Girl" after she appeared in the 1937 film "They Won't Forget" ?
46. Who wrote the poem "Adonais", which was a tribute to John Keats?
47. Which of these was a thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant?
48. What means a similar wish to that expressed in "aux vôtres" ?
49. Where is Lake George?
50. How is the starting position of Legan chess different from the starting position of standard chess?
51. When British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton led an expedition 1914-17, in the course of which his men spent time on Elephant Island, what was the aim of the expedition?
52. Baffin Island is what direction from New York?
53. According to the Bible's Genesis 32:28, 30 and Hosea 12:3, 5, God wrestled with whom all night?
54. What was an American post-World War II art movement beginning in New York City that was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence?
55. Which of these has the greatest number of wheels?
56. When were the bound feet known as "lotus feet" officially banned in China in a law which has not subsequently been rescinded?
57. In 1988 China and Vietnam clashed in the Johnson South Reef Skirmish, where?
58. From which one of these is somebody most likely to issue a call to prayer?
59. Which of these is an acclaimed Colombian singer, songwriter, performer and dancer?
60. Where is or are the Sundarbans?
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