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General Knowledge Quiz 144 (60 MCQs)

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1. Since the late 1930s, what date has been reserved for the inauguration of a President of the USA?
2. What is the honour system founded by Napoleon in 1802 that has five classes including Grand Cross and Officer?
3. On 9 October 2009, who was elected for an 8 year period to membership of the International Olympic Committee, replacing former Danish member Kaj Holm?
4. What is the freezing point of water, in degrees?
5. One of Hannibal's most famous achievements was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy with the intention of attacking Rome. What city was he from?
6. The boson particle, the properties of which were identified and examined at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland in 2012, carries the name of which scientist?
7. The title of a 1953 film starring Marilyn Monroe was "Gentlemen Prefer ..... '' what?
8. Who commanded the Roman army that invaded Britain in 55BC?
9. The amygdala deep within the temporal lobes of the brain has a primary role in what?
10. Which Roman goddess is the equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite?
11. When was the last major volcanic activity at Mount St Helens, Washington USA?
12. Whose first novel, "The Lovers", after being rejected by 26 publishers, won a Hugo Award in 1953?
13. With what country was the game of Senet first associated?
14. Where is the island, 1, 200 metres (3, 900 ft) long and 400 metres (1, 300 ft) across, known as Elephantine Island?
15. Which of these is not a book by Jane Austen?
16. In 1996, at the point when Desmond Tutu retired as the first black Archbishop of Capetown in South Africa he was appointed as what?
17. Danny and Sandy are the main characters in which musical?
18. Whose motto is "Je Maintiendrai" ?
19. The game of Rummikub, invented in Israel in the 1930s, can be played with either tiles or cards; which describes best how many are needed?
20. Where is the incus found in the human body?
21. Where in the human body can a Phrygian Cap be found?
22. What function does a pistil serve?
23. A sabre is what type of weapon?
24. The mandrill is the word's largest what?
25. Which Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under a parabola, and provided formulas for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and a system for expressing very large numbers?
26. What function do rhizomes perform for a plant?
27. Alfonso de Albuquerque took areas of which modern day country for Portugal in the early 1500s?
28. Which of these would you expect never to be prescribed for someone suffering from haemophilia?
29. Which of these darts scores is the lowest?
30. In the 1960s, Margaret Rutherford starred in four films as which famous detective?
31. What mechanical device allows the wheels of a vehicle to turn at different speeds when cornering?
32. What word is applied to the cutting down of trees in, e.g., the Amazon basin?
33. Where is the term leitmotif traditionally used?
34. In the 17th century, who invented the measurement called the "chain" used in surveying, which is made up of 100 "links" ?
35. What links the UK television programmes Dr Who and Lewis?
36. Which of these was a Swiss painter of German nationality whose style was influenced by expressionism, cubism, and surrealism, who taught at the German Bauhaus school of art and architecture?
37. Which country came first second and third in the golf teams event at the 1904 Olympic Games at St Louis?
38. What is the main mountain range which runs down the east coast of southern Brazil?
39. What was Lieut. C D Lucas, RN, the first to receive as a result of his involvement in the bombardment of a Russian fortress in the Baltic on 21 June 1854?
40. Cable News Network (CNN), the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, was founded by Ted Turner in what year?
41. When did kabaddi first appear as an event in the Asian Games?
42. Which German Nazi leader flew solo from Ausberg in 1941 and landed by parachute near Glasgow on a private peace mission?
43. What type of battle was the Battle of Trafalgar?
44. Where was the first disc recording studio in Europe set up?
45. Which of these wines comes from Italy?
46. Who was the head of Nazi propaganda during World War II who committed suicide with his family in 1945?
47. Which is the brightest object in the constellation of Leo?
48. The French bank and financial services company, BNP Paribas, holds an annual event giving awards in what field?
49. Which was not a medium used by British artist J.M.W.Turner to create his works?
50. What is the central theme of the 2003 film "The Big Fish" ?
51. What is always on the label of a bottle of the green liqueur "Bénédictine" ?
52. Which country is Amuay on the Paraguana Peninsula, the northernmost point in Venezuela, closest to?
53. Which of these is not native to New Zealand?
54. The Caesars ruled which ancient empire?
55. Which of these entertainments was introduced to the western world last?
56. What name is given to notes of the same pitch, in modern tuning but written differently, such as Db / C# and Gb / F#?
57. What is Elysia chlorotica, one of a species which contains the only known examples of one multicellular organism co-opting DNA from another?
58. Who is quoted as saying "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" ?
59. What is a dish that originated in 19th-century Russia, of sautéed pieces of beef served in a sauce with sour cream?
60. Which of these planets is the smallest?
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