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General Knowledge Quiz 137 (60 MCQs)

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1. Of the 37 venues used to host events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, how many new ones were constructed for use at the Games?
2. What character did Benedict Cumberbatch play in the 2019 TV drama "Brexit:The Uncivil War" ?
3. What crime did Truman Capote research and write about in his true crime novel "In Cold Blood" (1966)?
4. What river runs through Phoenix, Arizona, USA?
5. What are Portman Park and Steepledowns?
6. Where is the seat of the Pan-African Parliament?
7. In 2006 what became the longest-running musical in the West End of London?
8. Which of these areas of Canada is not a province?
9. What changed its name to Iran in 1935?
10. What did a B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted in thick fog by Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith, Jr., crash into at 9:40 a.m. on 28 July 1945?
11. Where is the world's largest cave system with 345 km of mapped passageways?
12. What is one of the main ingredients of marzipan, besides egg whites and sugar?
13. Over 6 days in March 2021 transport of over 10% of global trade came to a stop. What was the reason?
14. What nationality was the writer of the books "Bambi" and "Bambi's Children" ?
15. How did singers Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino and Carrie Underwood come to international attention?
16. Serotonin is a hormone that mainly affects what in the human body?
17. Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Matt Helders and Nick O'Malley are collectively known as ..... what?
18. What was the nickname of the British army regiment called "5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards ''?
19. Where is the forest cover known as taiga likely to be found?
20. He trained as a stonemason and sculptor, was held as prisoner of war by the US for a year, was a novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, and graphic artist, and won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature. Who was he?
21. George Cukor directed which 1964 film musical?
22. Which early 20th century composer from the Basque region of France, with folk song and Basque-Spanish influences, whose music incorporates baroque, neoclassicism and jazz, became particularly well-known internationally for a piece composed for a dancer?
23. For what would one use a phenakistoscope, that was invented in 1832 simultaneously by Belgian Joseph Plateau and Austrian Simon von Stampfer?
24. In the 1953 film, what was "Genevieve" ?
25. What life forms have a medusa state as part of their life cycle?
26. Which 19th century book has been everything from inspiration to source of intriguing speculation for writers and thinkers from Robert Graves and James Joyce to Sigmund Freud and Camille Paglia?
27. Which of these is a British comedy drama TV series of 32 episodes over 5 series first broadcast between 1998 and 2003, which follows 3 couples experiencing the ups-and-downs of romance?
28. Which of these US states has a boundary closest to Salt Lake City, Utah?
29. What is the name of the foreign intelligence agency of the German government, which is under the control of the Chancellor's Office?
30. Baja California is part of which country?
31. When the Kindle e-reader was being developed what codename was used for the project?
32. An athlete who in 2013 famously became the first active professional in one of the four major US team sports to declare he is homosexual, has a twin brother who was a professional in what sport?
33. A Red Bull-sponsored freestyle competition in what sport was launched in Maui, Hawai'I, in 2000 and is now held annually in Capetown, South Africa?
34. In 2006 British politician George Galloway was widely quoted as saying that it would be "morally justified if someone chose to assassinate ..... " whom?
35. Women's judo and what other sport debuted in the Olympic Games programme in 1992?
36. What do cygnets grow up to be?
37. What 1850 agreement between the USA and Britain resulted eventually in the British Mosquito (or Miskito) Coast protectorate becoming part of Nicaragua?
38. Seagrasses are noted for what?
39. Which of these animals does NOT have a dewclaw, a digit (sometimes only partly developed) growing high on the leg?
40. A verse form popular in France and England from the 16th century for dramatic and narrative poetry is thought to derive from the 12th century Roman d'Alexandre, romances compiled about the adventures of Alexander the Great, largely credited to whom?
41. Which of these people is most associated with the guitar?
42. According to legend, where did Queen Guinevere end her days after the death of her husband, King Arthur?
43. Sir Paul McCartney released an album, New, in 2013, with what as one of its distinguishing features?
44. First outlined in a paper in 1856 by Weber and Kohlrausch and used in an electrodynamics force law equation, what was Weber's constant later found to equal?
45. What song was a UK #1 hit for Mike and the Mechanics in 1989?
46. When was the first World Championships in Athletics held?
47. Who is credited with the quote, famous in US history: "I have not yet begun to fight" ?
48. Which river runs through the city of London, England?
49. The first uses of what on a large scale in civil engineering were the construction of the Canal du Midi in France (1681), the Erie canal in New York (1825), the Box Tunnel on the railway line between London and Bristol, England (1841), and the Mont Cenis Tunnel between France and Italy (1870)?
50. In which sport did Olympic gold medallists Roger Ducret, Lucien Gaudin, Laura Flessel-Colovic, Gaston Alibert, Pascale Trinquet, Christian d'Oriola, Jehan Buhan and Albert Robert Ayat represent France?
51. He is a playwright, screenwriter, film director and essayist with a Pulitzer Prize (1984) and Tony and Oscar award nominations; he is married to singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon; what is his name?
52. In the late 13th century Kublai Khan established what city as his dynasty's capital, and later as his summer retreat?
53. In what continent was freestyle swimming first developed?
54. Robert Drewe's book "Our Sunshine" was made into what film in 2003?
55. Who said it "Don't Matter" in 2007?
56. Which 19th century composer wrote over 40 operas including "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" and "Guillaume Tell" ?
57. To whom was David Rizzio the secretary, when he was stabbed to death by her husband, Lord Darnley in 1566 at Holyrood House, Edinburgh?
58. Where did Malcolm Campbell set a land speed record of 245.7 m.p.h. in 1931?
59. Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey are the only surviving members of which pop group who had its first hit record in England in 1965?
60. Which city has "areas" called Burdiehouse, Clermiston, Corstorphine, Dumbiedykes, The Grange, Haymarket, Hermiston, Holyrood, Inverleith, Jock's Lodge, Leith, Meadowbank, Murrayfield, Oxgangs, Pilrig, Portobello, Riccarton, Shandon and Tynecastle?
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