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General Knowledge Quiz 147 (60 MCQs)

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1. A novel by Frederick Forsythe was "The (what) of War" ?
2. Which of these died last?
3. Which of these names is applied to a large prize in a lottery?
4. Which of these composers composed a set of rhapsodies and named them after his home country?
5. Which film shot in the Nauvhal and Nafe languages won the Audience Award (Venice International Film Festival), Best Foreign Film (African-American Film Critics Association), and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2017 Academy Awards?
6. What are Palogue, Adar, Fula and Unity?
7. Near Lubumbashi (once named Élisabethville), third largest city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the dark conical slag mountain which has been celebrated on a bank note was originally formed from nearly 70 years of mining for what?
8. What was entertainment promoter Bill Graham's rock palace in operation from 1968 to July 1971, at Market Street and South Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, California?
9. Which railway has the highest line in South America and the second highest in the world, second only to the one which connects Qinghai in China and Lhasa in Tibet?
10. What is the capital of the US state of Idaho?
11. In which country is the Arab Spring recognised as first taking hold?
12. What empire is the subject of Dr Shashi Taroor's 2017 book "Inglorious Empire" ?
13. Which of these overlooks Jerusalem?
14. What is the term used in wine making for the catalyst function that turns grape juice into an alcoholic beverage when yeast interacts with sugars in the juice to create ethanol and carbon dioxide?
15. If water is described as "brackish" it has a high concentration of what?
16. Mallard, Mandarin, Red-crested Pochard, Teal, Muscovy and Eider are all types of what?
17. The "Little Big Painting" is by which of these artists?
18. In May 2011 Stevie Nicks released which solo album, her first for 10 years?
19. What is the expression "urheimat" associated with?
20. The visual art works and installations known as "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", "A Thousand Years", "Mickey" and "Flumequine" were created by whom?
21. What is the name for a squirrel's nest?
22. Who published their autobiography "Life is a Rollercoaster" in 2000?
23. What name was given to an amateur archeologist's find of gold and silver treasures dating back 1400 years in England in September 2009?
24. Which alpine ski racer was World Cup champion in 1967 and 1968, won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing with a sweep of the three gold medals for downhill, giant slalom and slalom at the 1968 Winter Olympics, and then retired?
25. Because of its major oil deposits, which South American country was a founding member in 1960 of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the only South American country in OPEC at that time?
26. Which of these is a fielding position in cricket?
27. Which of these is an instrument in the diagnosis of certain heart disorders?
28. Which English football (soccer) player, whose career playing first class football ran from 1956 to 1973, was England's most capped player (106) when he retired from the England team in 1970?
29. The names of how many US states begin with "New" ?
30. Where was the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles, held?
31. In which book of the Christian Bible is the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead?
32. Which is a 370 miles (600 km) long bi-national waterway first proposed in the 1890s, started in 1954 and opened in 1959?
33. The youngest player at the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships was 18; what country did his team represent?
34. Conchiglie is a type of what?
35. Which of these cities is in the Mojave Desert?
36. What distinguishes a member of the order stomatopoda?
37. With what was Edith Head, who was nominated for 35 Oscars (including every year from 1948 to 1966), associated?
38. In the musical Mamma Mia, who does Sam marry?
39. Which world record-holding athlete ran their last (and gold medal-winning) race in the 2016 Olympic Games before they retired from Olympic competition?
40. What song is this lyric from: "Driver at the engine, fireman rings the bell, sandman swings the lantern to show that all is well" ?
41. When and where was the first full facial reattachment performed?
42. Reynald Temarii, president of the Oceania Football Confederation, was banned from soccer administration by FIFA because it was alleged that he had said that his vote for the election of hosts of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2022 FIFA World Cup could be influenced through the construction of a sports academy. Where was it to be built?
43. Which piece on a chessboard can move only one space in any direction?
44. What board game released in 1981 was created by Scott Abbott and Chris Haney, with the help of John Haney and Ed Werner?
45. What post did Gaius Julius Caesar hold at the time of his death?
46. Sylvie Guillem, CBE, is a French what?
47. Whose works include "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) and a parody of the "Mona Lisa" (1919) which shows a moustache and goatee attached to a cheap reproduction of the painting?
48. Which game uses the term "pung" ?
49. Which of these is a 2001 American action-adventure comedy film directed, produced, and written by Brian Helgeland, starring Heath Ledger?
50. Which musical term denotes a repetitive oscillation about a single pitch that occurs in rapid cycles?
51. Characters known collectively as the futhorc, are what?
52. One of Junia Wonders's award-winning young children's books is called "When the [what] came" ?
53. The 14 year old Kyra Poh from Singapore won gold medals at the international indoor skydiving championship WindGames 2017; what were the disciplines?
54. What is Operalia?
55. In which of these is the motive drive generated from inside the vehicle?
56. Which of these characters drives around in the "Mystery Machine" ?
57. Where was the city Thonis-Heracleion?
58. When did freestyle skiing first become a sport contested at the Winter Olympics?
59. Who appeared briefly but spectacularly at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics as Super Mario?
60. Burning methane in the presence of oxygen produces water and what gas?
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