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General Knowledge Quiz 139 (60 MCQs)

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1. In which part of the body would you find the bone called the trapezium?
2. Which of these is a learned society based in the UK, founded in 1807 partly from a previous club known as the Askesian Society, and receiving its Royal Charter in 1825 from George IV?
3. Which country in the Central America isthmus borders a country in continental South America?
4. "M", "Luscious Pink" and "Forever" are women's fragrances from Elizabeth Arden, endorsed by whom?
5. Which of these means "biting" ?
6. When was voting made compulsory in Australia?
7. Which month appears last in the rhyme "30 days have September ..... "?
8. What is an apparatus consisting of a frame containing a number of parallel wires on which there are rows of beads which can be moved left and right?
9. What does the phrase "In loco parentis" mean?
10. The city of Miami, Florida, is at the mouth of which river?
11. Which of these is the title of a British TV series shown between 1957 and 1967 which is considered to be one of Britain's first major soap operas?
12. Which is the smallest in land area?
13. Which US President has figured on the cover of the magazine Sports Illustrated, twice?
14. Which war between Austria, France and Russia versus Great Britain and Prussia ended with the ceding of Silesia to Prussia by Austria and the ceding of French territory in Canada to Britain?
15. In rugby union, which position wears the number 2 jersey?
16. Which animals live in nests called "dreys" ?
17. What was the nickname for a 1913 British Act of Parliament that enabled suffragettes on hunger strike to be released from prison when they became ill?
18. Which is a method for calculating the height of a geological feature?
19. Commander Shepard, Jacob Taylor, Miranda Lawson, Thane Krios, Grunt, Jack, Mordin Solus, Samara, Morinth, Legion, Zaeed Messani, Garrus Vakarian and Tali'Zorah Vas Neema are characters in which computer game?
20. What sign-off did the cartoon character Porky Pig use?
21. The standard negative pulldown for 35 mm motion picture film is four perforations per frame along both edges, which makes for exactly how many frames per foot?
22. Which is the first children's book in which Dr Seuss did not write in rhyming verse?
23. Kurt Wiese (1887-1974) was born in Germany, lived in China, was a prisoner of war in Japan and Australia, moved to Brazil after the end of WW I, then the USA in 1927, and is well-known as what?
24. What word, invented by Paweł Ciompa in 1910 and first used by Ragnar Frisch in the sense that it is used today, is concerned with developing and applying quantitative or statistical methods to the study and elucidation of economic principles, combining economic theory with statistics to analyse and test economic relationships?
25. Where on the human body are the nares found?
26. What is the generic title of a series of French comic strips that follows the exploits of a village of ancient Gauls as they resist Roman occupation by means of a magic potion brewed by their druid, which gives them superhuman strength?
27. Bushido, developed between the 9th and 20th centuries relates to which culture?
28. What was the largest cruise liner ever constructed when it was completed in 2003?
29. The representatives of how many countries are party to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change?
30. Which film actor (1895-1926) is known for his films "The Four Horsemen", "The Sheik" and "Blood And Sand" ?
31. In 2016 Marcus Reus is the face of the franchise of which computer game?
32. Which of these is a herb used as a flavouring in cookery which grows to about 1 foot high, and has purple flowers and oblong leaves?
33. Which Dutch fabric merchant, surveyor, wine assayer, and minor city official, learned to grind lenses for simple microscopes and discovered bacteria, free-living and parasitic microscopic protists, sperm cells, blood cells and microscopic nematodes?
34. What genre did Howard L. Chace, a professor of French, use when he wrote "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut", the story of Little Red Riding Hood written using English words (but never the correct ones) to demonstrate that the intonation, and context, of spoken English is almost as important to the meaning as the words themselves?
35. A major armed conflict 1768 to 1774 in eastern Europe was a war between the forces of which two?
36. John Scopes was put on trial in 1925 in the USA for teaching the theories of which scientist?
37. Who wrote "Lady Windermere's Fan", "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" ?
38. Which Scottish singer had a #1 hit in the UK with "All This Time" in 2004 after winning the second series of the UK talent show "Pop Idol" ?
39. Which city is closest to the Caspian Sea?
40. What was the purpose of explorer Captain, then Lieutenant, James Cook's first voyage to the south Pacific Ocean in 1768?
41. Which of the Great Lakes is the only one located entirely within the USA?
42. Which of these was a film about a volcanic eruption?
43. What is a "do" in the martial art kendo?
44. What artificial international language invented by Dr Zamenhof was published in 1887?
45. Of the top 5 box office grossing films released in 1950 which one or ones figured in the major Golden Globe and Academy awards for films in that year?
46. Which British politician won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953?
47. Which of these is an armless piece of furniture?
48. What name is given to ducks which feed mainly at the surface rather than by diving?
49. A bear, a dog, and a panda, only one of which speaks on the soundtrack, are characters in a long-running UK children's TV series; what are the names of the bear and the dog?
50. The Little Brown Jug and The Little Brown Jugette are annual races in Delaware, Ohio, for what?
51. What is the meaning of the second to last word listed in the Oxford dictionary?
52. What is a polytunnel used for?
53. What is a disorder of the immune system (called "type I hypersensitivity") whereby the human body reacts adversely to normally harmless environmental substances?
54. Which is claimed to be the smallest inhabited island?
55. Scottish singer, composer and music hall comedian Harry Lauder sang to troops in France during World War I and gave concerts for war charities> What happened in 1919?
56. Who was the pilot of the US Airways plane that landed on the Hudson River in January 2009?
57. Which of these signifies that an internal combustion engine is fitted with something other than a carburettor?
58. Which of these was a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1678 until 1971, when they amalgamated with the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards)?
59. Glacier-formed fjords can be found on the coasts of Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, north east Siberia, the Kerguelen Islands, New Zealand, British Columbia, Nunavut, Washington and where else?
60. Which of these four was the last to become President of the USA?
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