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General Knowledge Quiz 145 (60 MCQs)

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1. All of the gold medals at the 2009 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were won by Evgenia Kanaeva, who was representing which country?
2. In which country was the Battle of Vinegar Hill fought in 1798?
3. Where is the land with the lowest elevation in South America?
4. Which sport is track designer Udo Gurgel most associated with?
5. The subscription BBC series "BBC Select" (1992-95) ran during the overnight hours, when the BBC at the time was usually shut down, for what audience?
6. What was the stated purpose of the Morges Manifesto signed in 1961?
7. Which of these is not a position in Australian Rules football?
8. Which of these is a natural feature in Northern Ireland?
9. Although Mlle De Lafontaine (1655-1738) was not the first famous woman in her field she is recognised as the first in the Western world to earn her living in it. What was the field?
10. Which team won the most titles in the 100 years of England's Football League First Division (1892-1992), and then until 2019-20 did not win a title in the Premier League which replaced it?
11. What country lies to north of the Republic of Chad?
12. In what branch of mathematics is differentiation used?
13. Which of these colours does not appear on the Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom?
14. In what country is the Sennar Dam on the Blue Nile river?
15. Which car maker has marketed models called Jazz, Accord, Civic and Legend?
16. How many centimetres are there in 3.5 metres?
17. In a card game, what is "taking a trick" ?
18. Where is a lunula found?
19. How many years lapsed after Pierre de Fermat formulated his "Last Theorem" in 1637, until the last part of an accepted proof was published?
20. What is the Australian English word that means a small lake, such as is formed when the path of a creek or river changes, leaving a dead end?
21. After appearing in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", Jennifer Grey starred opposite Patrick Swayze as Frances "Baby" Houseman in what 1987 film?
22. The urethra in the female human body is a channel to drain what?
23. What is next in the series:London, Orlando, Toronto, Sydney ..... ?
24. Indycar sportsman Scott Dixon, who won his first Indy championship in 2000 and whose ratio of wins to career starts is the best of all-time regular drivers in the IRL, comes from where?
25. Which lighthouse, the fourth to be built on the site since 1698, is 9 statute miles (14 km) south west of Rame Head on the Cornish / Devon coast of Britain?
26. Who was the "fourth man" in the scandal that rocked the British Government between 1951 and 1963 when it was discovered that members of the Foreign Office and Intelligence Services were spies for the Russians?
27. What does actor Idris Elba credit with providing an special impetus to starting his professional career?
28. What city, founded around 1048 by King Harald III, was largely destroyed by fire and rebuilt from 1624 by King Christian IV and named Christiania, and reverted to its original name in 1925?
29. The English cities of Gloucester and Worcester are on which river?
30. What is a term for bodily movements, often unconscious, made seemingly to influence the path of an object after it has left the control of the mover?
31. Scurf is another name for what?
32. Which of these was named after Thomas Lord?
33. Which of these countries does not play test cricket?
34. According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of epic poetry?
35. Which of these is not one of 4 kinds of bacteria?
36. What is Coade stone?
37. Mastitis is a complaint affecting what?
38. Swiss legendary hero William Tell was instrumental in rescuing his land from the tyranny of which country in 1307?
39. The score for the Broadway musical "Kismet" was adapted from the music of which composer?
40. What does a ceilometer measure?
41. In what sport would one use a jigger board?
42. The enclosed inland saltwater body of water, the Caspian Sea is estimated to contain what proportion of the world's inland surface water?
43. What is the term for playing a piece of music in a key other that in which it is written?
44. What word is traditionally applied to clothes and linen collected by a woman before her marriage?
45. What contest, held between 24 teams, was played in Dubai between 5 and 7 March 2009, and was won by Wales?
46. Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the start of World War I?
47. Lake Neuchatel is in which country?
48. What word best describes the form of government in which all power is vested in one person?
49. Which recording plays as the first song of the new year in Times Square?
50. Ayahuasca, a tea prepared from a flowering vine in the Amazon and used for healing ceremonies, contains which of these?
51. Erik Satie's three Gymnopédies were written in 1888 for which musical instrument?
52. Only certain cheeses can be called "Stilton"; one of the factors is in which English counties it is made. Which of these is NOT one of them?
53. The character created by O. Henry in his 1907 short story "The Caballero's Way" formed the basis, although considerably softened, for the main character in what 1950s US TV series?
54. Which English all-female pop trio based in London, consisting of Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen, was formed in 1998 by original members Siobhán Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan?
55. What is the name of Morocco's capital, which is 60 miles north of Casablanca?
56. During a speech in January 1992, then-president George H. W. Bush mentioned that he wanted to "make American families a lot more like ..... which family? ..... and a lot less like the Simpsons" .
57. What is the word for the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal?
58. In May 2018, North Korea changed its time zone to match that of what other country or city?
59. Where is the 250km (150 miles) long Offa's Dyke?
60. Which of these musicals is set in Scotland?
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