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General Knowledge Quiz 138 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who was the first person to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize?
2. Which of these is a type of seaweed?
3. Who co-founded the Scottish comedy and folk-pop duo The Humblebums?
4. What creature is a "red snapper" ?
5. Which British comic strip character who appeared from September 1954 as a feature in "Tiger" magazine, had his own weekly comic from September 1976, which ran for 853 issues until March 1993?
6. Which of these members of Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1912 sacrificed himself in an attempt to ensure that there to be sufficient provisions for the rest of the team?
7. The Venus Rosewater Dish is awarded to winners in which tennis event?
8. Which team won the Hockey World Cup the most times in the first 30 years of competition, which has been held every 2 to 3 years since 1971?
9. What bird has iridescent blue-green or green coloured plumage, where the train feathers have a series of eyes that are best seen when the tail is fanned?
10. What art or science does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation, Sherlock Holmes, practise?
11. Which international organisation evolved from Camp Shriver in Maryland, USA, in 1968?
12. Who made the longest Oscar acceptance speech, at five minutes and 30 seconds, when collecting her Oscar for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as Mrs. Miniver?
13. What was the first product advertised on British TV?
14. Who wrote the plays "Uncle Vanya" and "The Cherry Orchard" ?
15. What name has been given to a style of British dance music developing in the mid 2000s and heavily influenced by soulful house, Afrobeat, soca, tribal house and broken beat?
16. The word "wed" derives from words meaning what?
17. For his contribution to the development of what area of transport is US inventor and engineer Robert Fulton known?
18. What is the name of a music-hating attack force in a landmark animated 1968 film?
19. What is a "full plaid" ?
20. Where is the Locrian Mode found?
21. What performer, a spokeswoman for Autism Speaks and the American Heart Association, named her children Denham and Diesel?
22. In 1948 Australia and New Zealand both enacted legislation formally defining and establishing what?
23. Where is the traditional Bantu kingdom of Busoga?
24. Which of these lines is from Coldplay's song "Viva La Vida" ?
25. A sculpture, mechanical, steam-snorting, mostly aluminium, and labelled "The Raging ..... (what)", was led into the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, UK?
26. What area borders the south-west of Mongolia?
27. In the 2020 Masters Tournament, what was one of the notable facts about the golfer's winning score?
28. Near the end of August 2009, Australia lost to England by 197 runs in what sport?
29. The so-called "Bridge of Spies" in Europe connects what?
30. Which of these is a type of stroke used in swimming?
31. The national flag of which of these countries has a sheep on it?
32. A spinoff from the BBC TV series In the Thick of It was which 2009 film, also starring Peter Capaldi?
33. The characters Viola and Sebastian are NOT in which of these plays?
34. General Franco, the Spanish military general, was head of state of Spain from October 1936 following the Spanish Civil War, until when?
35. Where are The Kerguelen Islands, a territory of France, also known as Desolation Island?
36. What is the title of George W Bush's political memoir, published in 2010?
37. All Scrabble tournament (and most club) games are played with a game clock and a set time control. Typically how long does each player have in which to make all plays?
38. What is Malay for "man of the woods" ?
39. The most famous statement of which 17th century French philosopher is "Cogito ergo sum" ?
40. Whose was the first vaccine against the pandemic disease, COVID-19, to be approved for use?
41. Which of the soil types described by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is most common world-wide?
42. Who married British actress and producer Trudi Styler in 1992?
43. According to Tennyson in "The Passing of Arthur", which knight stayed with the dying King Arthur to the end and threw the sword Excalibur into the lake?
44. Canadian composer André Gagnon, known for fusion of classical and pop and for composing for television, theatre and film, composed which opera which premiered in 1990?
45. What is the "litmus" which is used in litmus paper to detect acids or alkalis?
46. A major Middle Eastern city is ..... ?
47. What best describes the majority of land in Peru?
48. In medicine, which suffix denotes "inflammation of" ?
49. Who founded the 1960s R 'n' B group "Steam Packet" with vocalist Rod Stewart and went on to form "Trinity", who Julie Driscoll sometimes sang with?
50. At the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, what initially distinguished the Japanese Prime Minister's introduction of the next Olympic host city?
51. Glenn Miller, famous as a band leader in the 1930s & 1940s, played which instrument?
52. Which playwright and screenwriter, particularly known for the play "Antigone" (1944), was considered for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, and in 1980 was the first recipient of the newly established Grand Prix du Théâtre de l'Académie française?
53. It a pig is termed "tantony" what is meant?
54. Since the start of the present ice age about 2.5 million years ago at least how many severe glacial periods have there been?
55. The term "Teutonic" means relating to what country?
56. How did the Balfour Declaration of 1926 affect Canada, New Zealand, Australia and other dominions of the British Empire?
57. What are looming, towering, stooping, and sinking?
58. The legend of Robin Hood, which dates from the 14th century and includes tales of Friar Tuck, Little John and Alan Adale, is centred on which forest?
59. Opened in February 1907, what was built on the site of Newgate Prison?
60. Who played Paris in the film "Troy", released in 2004?
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