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General Knowledge Quiz 146 (60 MCQs)

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1. Vercingétorix is celebrated as having united which peoples to oppose the conquests by Roman forces led by Julius Caesar?
2. In the film "The Wild One" (1953) which actor snarls "Nobody tells me what to do" ?
3. Who beat Lee Westwood, then the new world golf #1, into second place at the WGC-HSBC Championship in Shanghai in November 2010?
4. What was one spectacular result of the lifting of the centuries-old punitive taxes and excises on glass in the UK in the mid 19th century?
5. Which animals have a bone known as a tarsometatarsus?
6. What is the name for cake and ice cream cooked quickly in a meringue?
7. According to the title of a song from the musical "The Sound of Music", who was lonely?
8. The first successful heart transplant from what animal to an adult human was made in Baltimore, Maryland, US, in January 2022?
9. In April 1939, Clark University's Joseph Deliberato set a new record doing what?
10. With what work in the early 18th century is James Bradley associated?
11. If someone is referred to as "canine", what animal are they being compared to?
12. The islands of Skye and Mull are in which island group?
13. The term "Grand Slam" was first applied to whose achievement of winning the 4 major golf events of 1930?
14. The southern border of the US state of Oregon is with what US state?
15. In Greek mythology, what was the Styx?
16. What is the atomic number of the element which is the basis for all organic chemistry?
17. What is one of Rachel Hunter's professions?
18. "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them" appears in which dystopian novel?
19. In the acronym current from very late twentieth century, what does "T" stand for in "IOT" ?
20. In which modern country are the remains of the Krak des Chevaliers, developed and occupied by the Knights Hospitaller from the 12th century?
21. The Dutch scientist, Jan Oort, whose name has been attached to a kind of cloud and to a scientific constant, was celebrated in what field?
22. In 1976, who was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event?
23. What was the area now known as the Mekong Delta called in the 19th century?
24. What is the variety of coffee bean grown almost exclusively world-wide?
25. Who was the third wife of King Henry VIII who died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her son, who briefly reigned as Edward VI?
26. What is the next country in the list:Djibouti, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Eritrea ..... ?
27. When was the Star Spangled Banner first flown?
28. What caused the closure of the Panama Canal in December 2010, for the first time in 21 years?
29. In which city did a suicide bombing take place in Taksim Square on 31 October 2010, resulting in at least 32 injuries, 15 of whom were police officers?
30. In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published "Futility", a short novel about an enormous British passenger liner, which, thought to be unsinkable, carries insufficient lifeboats and on a voyage in April, hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board. What was the name of the ship in this story?
31. Established American basketball referee Tim Donaghy became known for gambling, and what else?
32. When was the only death linked to drug use following an event at an Olympic Games?
33. Which of these is the name of a peninsula in south west Cornwall, England?
34. When was the last time a team competed at the Olympic Games comprising members from different countries?
35. When something is referred to as mumblecore, what is it likely to be?
36. Who (although he claims that the author was an entity named Aiwass, his personal Holy Guardian Angel or "Higher Self") is credited with writing "Liber AL vel Legis", the central sacred text of Thelema, commonly referred to as The Book of the Law, in 1904?
37. What make of car was founded in 1963 in a tractor factory in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, and is now a subsidiary of Volkswagen?
38. Which of these countries has a coastline on the Indian Ocean?
39. In which state of the USA is the educational institution known as U. C. L. A.?
40. One of the cratons, or relatively stable areas, in the South American tectonic plate is known as the what Shield?
41. What is the richest horse race in Europe?
42. Which of these is a book by Dr Seuss?
43. What mountain-based military camp in Frederick County, Maryland, is used as a country retreat of the President of the USA and his guests?
44. What is the name for a badger's nest?
45. Who was credited as the first to climb to the top of Mount Everest?
46. The ship "The Beagle" became famous for carrying which scientist on a voyage of discovery?
47. The thymol derivatives concentrated in the roots of which flowering plant are used in ointments for strains, sprains, bruises, and as an anti-inflammatory?
48. The giant toad Rhinella marina (formerly Bufo marinus), introduced to kill pests throughout Oceania, the Caribbean and Northern Australia, and in its turn a major pest in some of those areas, is native to where?
49. The philosopher Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570-c. 495 BCE) believed in transmigration of souls, led a group which proposed that the earth was round, planets have an axis and travel around the sun, and is still widely known for a theorem of what kind?
50. Concorde, a collaboration between British Aircraft Corporation from the UK and Aérospatiale from France, took its first supersonic flight when?
51. Which monotheistic, Abrahamic religious movement accepts Haile Selassie I, the former and final Emperor of Ethiopia, as the incarnation of God, called Jah?
52. When a dish of food is described as poached, what does this usually mean?
53. Which New Zealander, known as "The White Mouse", was a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance, and became one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of World War II?
54. Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I of England?
55. What artistic movement was brought to international attention at the World's Fair in Paris in 1925?
56. Which of these words can be applied to soups enriched with salt pork fatback and thickened with flour or with crushed ship biscuit or saltine crackers, and milk?
57. What is a French word meaning false or fake?
58. A truant is someone who stays away from what?
59. Why did John Malkovich, Steven Spielberg, Kevin Bacon, Larry King, Mort Zuckerman, Senator Frank Lautenberg and co-owner of the NY Mets, Saul Katz, all form part of the same news item in 2009?
60. Which of these is the odd person out?
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