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General Knowledge Quiz 14 (60 MCQs)

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1. Matsuri, festivals of religious worship and celebration, are a feature of life in what country?
2. According to the Bible, what did Samson kill 1, 000 Philistines with?
3. A bean bag is a substitute for what item of furniture?
4. In April 2010, what word used by Robin Williams on "The Late Show with David Letterman" caused the Australian Prime Minister to respond in such a way that Alabama newspapers demanded he apologise?
5. Where was the Chacaltaya glacier, one of the highest in South America, which was 0.22 km2 (0.085 sq mi) in 1940 and effectively gone in 2009?
6. Where is the Arafura Sea?
7. What does the Chytrid fungus particularly affect?
8. During the cycling road race at the Rome Games of 1960, Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen fell from his bicycle. Which of these was not a result of that?
9. What term is familiarly applied to the university where one received one's education?
10. What is a description of the process of frying an egg?
11. At what age did James VI of Scotland, later James I of England, Ireland and Wales as well, succeed to the Scottish throne?
12. Canadian-born Lionel Blair was particularly known in which discipline?
13. Which of these countries lie along, beside and close to the Scandes?
14. What is the name for a wasps' nest?
15. Brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier were the inventors of a style of what?
16. Where would you find a person called a seamer?
17. Where was the 1994 earthquake, magnitude MW of 8.2, resulting from the Nazca plate's being pushed beneath the mantle of the South American continent?
18. The holocaust carried out by Hitler during World War II is frequently described solely in terms of the death of nearly 6 million Jews. However, in addition to this appalling figure the holocaust included the focussed slaughter of many other non-combatants; which of these is not recorded as part of this?
19. What is a white dwarf star?
20. What does a person with narcolepsy do?
21. Which Ecuadoran-born dancer and choreographer served as principal choreographer and, from 1963-70, director of the Royal Ballet in England?
22. Where is the 2.5-acre (10, 000 m2) landscaped area dedicated to the memory of musician John Lennon, called "Strawberry Fields" ?
23. With which organisation was Jacques Rogge, Count Rogge, associated?
24. What was Bernard van Dieren (1884-1936) famous for doing in the early 20th century?
25. What nationality was A.J.Hackett who started the first commercial bungee jumping concern in 1988?
26. When comedy and folk-pop group The Humblebums broke up in 1971 and the artists went on to pursue solo careers, what duo did one of them then co-found?
27. The first annual World Youth Championships held in Queensland, Australia, in 2014 were for what?
28. Which of these containers is the largest?
29. "Catwoman:Hunted", released direct to video in 2022, was which of these?
30. Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and what other country feature in this order as the least corrupt countries in Transparency International's 2014 Corruptions Index?
31. What is the common name for the seeds of horse-chestnut trees?
32. What is the monetary unit of Vietnam?
33. Which of the following fits in the sentence "I know ..... book this is" ?
34. The tourist-familiar villages of Sa Dec, Lai Vung and Long Dinh are found where?
35. Sir John Tenniel whose illustrations became synonomous with Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was also a graphic humourist and political cartoonist for 50 years for which publication?
36. As at 2006 elections which Sunni Islamist paramilitary organisation and political party holds a majority of seats in the legislative council of the State of Palestine, the name since 2012 of the Palestinian National Authority?
37. What is a tamarin?
38. Why is water near La Rinconada in the Peruvian Andes (at 5, 100 m above sea level the highest permanent settlement in the world) contaminated?
39. The Battle of Balaclava was in which war?
40. What character was the child of the character played by Tom Hanks in the film "Sleepless in Seattle" ?
41. Prints of which 1927 silent German expressionist science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang were discovered in Australia, the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the National Film Archive of New Zealand, to become the basis for a restoration project for a DVD/BD?
42. According to Greek legend, who ferried the souls of the dead across the river that divided the world of the living from that of the dead?
43. If you sailed directly East from New York, which of these harbours would be nearest your landfall on the other side of the Atlantic?
44. What is the function of the smallest skeletal muscle in the human body
45. Which of these is a style of music?
46. Ultrasonic sound is what?
47. Which pop group, initially a studio only band for Tony Burrows and songwriter/record producers Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason, are best known for their 1970 record, "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" ?
48. In the 13th century BCE, as recorded in the Jewish Torah (in the book of "Names", or "Exodus"), Moses was commanded on Mount Sinai to do many things, one of which was to ..... ?
49. What is the highest value card after the ace in the game of pinochle?
50. What play does the character Blanche Dubois appear in?
51. What are a pony, a jigger and a jackpot?
52. Which of these countries does not use the euro as standard currency?
53. Canada contains much of the world's fresh water, including approximately how many large lakes?
54. In the 6th century BC, where was the empire of Cyrus the Great?
55. What fate made Spencer Perceval unique among British Prime Ministers?
56. The air we breathe is made up of 78.09% of what gas?
57. The head of state of Jersey and Guernsey, which are both Crown dependencies and not part of the United Kingdom, is the monarch of Great Britain. They rule there because they hold what title?
58. Where are fluid catalytic cracking units likely to be used?
59. The Great Fire of London in 1666 happened when which King was on the British throne?
60. What is the next number in this sequence:4; 16; 256; 65, 536?
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