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General Knowledge Quiz 141 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the focus of the annual festival known as Lollapalooza Chicago?
2. What is the real name of "Baby Spice" of the Spice Girls, whose 2007 single "All I Need to Know" was the lowest-charting single of her solo career?
3. What did Joseph Smith say that the Book of Mormon that he translated was written on?
4. In 2017 it was announced that the unofficial geographical centre of North America had been recalculated as being near which town?
5. Who wrote "Desperate Remedies" (1871) and "Under The Greenwood Tree" (1872)?
6. Which play by John Osborne features a character called Archie Rice, a part written for Laurence Olivier, who played it on stage and in a 1960 film version?
7. The viola is tuned one fifth below the violin and therefore they have three strings tuned in common:G, D, and which other?
8. Who started "Poor Richard's Almanack" in 1732, helped draw up the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution and invented the lightning conductor?
9. What is or was scapulimancy used for?
10. British archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) was known for what invention?
11. Who is a mythological lumberjack who appears in tall tales of American folklore, usually believed to be a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, who was first documented in the work of American journalist James MacGillivray?
12. Which was the first Olympic Games hosted in Germany since the 1936 Games in Berlin?
13. Where would you find the Machu Picchu mountain?
14. Who was the first black woman, second African American, and the second woman to serve as U S Secretary of State?
15. What was the title of Graham Norton's autobiography, published in 2004?
16. Which Ohio-born woman joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and was known as "the greatest woman marksman of all time" ?
17. According to Virgil's Latin epic poem "The Aeneid", who, during the Trojan War, made a wooden horse and filled it with soldiers that the Trojans took through the gates of Troy?
18. How many sides does a dodecahedron have?
19. When was Dartchery accepted as a Paralympic sport?
20. If someone wanted to cook a custard or terrine, what could they use to provide a gentle and uniform heat?
21. What does British sculptor Sir Antony Gormley's work, "Another Place", consist of?
22. In 2017, SpaceX, the company headed by the inventor Elon Musk, did what?
23. Under what name is Company Bahadur better known?
24. "Easter Parade" (1948), starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, featured songs by whom?
25. What name did Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe perform under?
26. In 2003, Rebecca Wade became the first female editor of which British newspaper?
27. Where would a sports competitor use a snaffle?
28. Who was in charge of the ransacking of much of northern Italy in 452 AD?
29. Why was the theme sung at the opening of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona delivered in pre-recorded form?
30. What is a cyclotron?
31. How far north does Canadian-governed territory extend?
32. Which town on the Isle of Wight has hosted an annual Regatta since 1851?
33. Which 19th century French artist is best known for his illustrations for the "Bible", "Paradise Lost", Dante's "Inferno", "Don Quixote" and the works of Rabelais and Balzac?
34. Attila the Hun died on which auspicious day in 453CE?
35. What was a Roman name for France?
36. Which of these is a park in Sydney, Australia?
37. Who was known as the "Moses of her people" for leading escaped slaves to freedom during the US Civil War?
38. Which of these countries is immediately north of Bulgaria?
39. What type of beer takes its name from the German word for "storage" ?
40. Which group, named after its keyboardist, had its first hit record when the members included Mike Hugg, Mike Vickers, Tom McGuinness and Paul Jones?
41. Who created the character of Doctor Frankenstein?
42. Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the assassination of whom?
43. Which British playwright is known for a body of increasingly non-naturalistic work, two of which are "Cloud Nine" and "Top Girls" ?
44. Tonga is a ..... ?
45. In England, what were Lloyds, Barclays, Westminster, Midland and National Provincial?
46. If somebody is going to "tread the boards" what are they likely to do?
47. Who is said to be "the father of history" ?
48. Where is the Temple of Confucius?
49. As what are Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Mike McCready and Eddie Vedder collectively known?
50. From what does vinegar derive its sour taste?
51. Once the most famous clipper and the fastest, and profitable because of that speed, the UK's Cutty Sark, for a decade from 1885, forged the beginning of a major trade for Australia in what commodity?
52. What was the name of the IBM computer that defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997?
53. Which of these countries proclaimed itself a republic on 11 February 1873, following the abdication of Amadeo?
54. Trumps, tricks, brisques and melds are part of which of these card games?
55. What is the name of the note that is 1/8 the length of a semi-breve?
56. In 2001, Count Jacques Rogge replaced Juan Antonio Samaranch as head of what body?
57. In 1985, Barbara Dickson released "I Know Him So Well" from the musical "Chess", which remains the biggest-selling record by a female duo, with what other singer?
58. The Night of the Long Knives is associated with which political figure?
59. From which of these can clothing material be made?
60. It is necessary to multiply by 3.2808 to convert what to what?
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