Global MCQ Practice

🌐 Total MCQ
🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books

General Knowledge Quiz 148 (60 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. What was Maria Callas?
2. At which Winter Olympics did a drug scandal lead to Russia being excluded as a competing country from some of the next Summer Olympics and all of the next Winter Olympics?
3. "Two to the power of five" means what?
4. Which of these is a keyboard instrument?
5. How many volumes are there in Spike Milligan's autobiography, the last volume of which was entitled "PeaceWork" ?
6. What nationality was Abel Janszoon Tasman the voyager, explorer and map maker?
7. Dr Benjamin Spock wrote books on what subject?
8. In 2009 Terry Herbert found a hoard of Saxon warrior metal artefacts on land owned by Fred Johnson, which has become known as the Staffordshire Hoard. Which ancient kingdom do the objects come from?
9. The video game "The Legend of Zelda" (originally released in 1986) was inspired by the experiences of the designer as a child in where?
10. What modern sport can trace its origin back to a Scramble that took place at Camberley, Surrey England in 1924?
11. Which of these is not a play by Oscar Wilde?
12. London bridges-Battersea, Albert, Putney, Hammersmith-were built, re-built or substantially altered into their present-day form following what other major building project?
13. Which of these is a hoofed mammal with a partly leopard-spotted coat, developed in the current form of the breed in north-west America?
14. How many carats is pure gold?
15. A find in January 1848 by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in the USA, started what?
16. Round, flat, filbert, fan and rigger are types of what?
17. What is the study of fossils?
18. Which countries won the medals in women's pole vault in the 2016 Summer Olympics?
19. Tuberculosis was once called which of these?
20. What is the common name for a lepidoptera pupa and its silky cocoon?
21. What part of the world has been ruled by Aelle, Ceawlin, Ethelbert, Rædwald, Edwin, Oswald, Oswy, Wulfhere, Ethelred, Ethelbald, Offa, Cœnwulf and Egbert?
22. When were the Nordic Games, the first international multi-sport event that focused primarily on winter sports, held?
23. Which of these is a novel by John Wyndham?
24. What beam is used by remote controls to change channels on TVs?
25. Who, though he died at 35, wrote over 600 works including 23 string quartets, 5 string quintets, 21 piano concertos and 19 operas?
26. What is the term for the measure of the brightness of a star as it appears on earth?
27. Which jazz bandleader disappeared in December 1944 while flying over the English Channel?
28. Which of these are teeth which rodents have?
29. What was the name of the character played by George Clooney in the "Oceans" film series released from 19 to 19?
30. What two countries were signatories to the first of the two Treaties of Tilsit in 1807?
31. The ingredient in some traditional Māori food known as pikopiko, or sometimes as bush asparagus, is what?
32. Which "Great Fire" is believed to have started at the bakery of Thomas Farriner (or Farynor) on Pudding Lane?
33. What is the word for a cross between a corgi and a dachshund?
34. Which of these is not a prison in London, England?
35. For more than 200 years Hatchards in the UK has sold what?
36. A German naturalist and artist, working latterly in the Netherlands, creating seminal paintings of flora and fauna including the full cycle of an insect in its plant and other context, was who?
37. What was the purpose of explorer Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776?
38. Where was the Dust Bowl, the period of prolonged dust storms and severe drought in the 20th century?
39. What comedy farce by English playwright Joe Orton was first staged at the Queen's Theatre in London on 5 March 1969, after his death in 9 August 1967?
40. Which of these is an independent country?
41. What was the name of the man who was pictured facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, in 1989?
42. What was a notable event at the 1990 Australian Open tennis tournament?
43. What is the national flower of Malaysia?
44. What is Stickler Syndrome?
45. Who played Ava Gardner in "The Aviator" ?
46. Which Saint's Day is 1 March?
47. Ordo Virtutum composed in 1151 and thought to be one of the oldest pieces of liturgical drama, set to music and arguably the oldest surviving morality play, was written by whom?
48. Which TV series had the slogan "The Truth Is Out There" ?
49. Which series of films were numbered 11, 12 & 13, without any "episodes" numbered 10 or below?
50. What is a mandoline?
51. In which decade was John F Kennedy born?
52. According to a short story by Washington Irving (1819), who escaped his nagging wife by wandering into New York's Catskill Mountains, fell asleep, and returned to his village, where he found that 20 years had passed?
53. According to John Dalton (1766-1844) chemical reactions happen between what to form new substances
54. What word is used to mean the dead skin at the base of a fingernail?
55. What is used on uniforms of some US military or paramilitary personnel to indicate number of years' service?
56. The seven brightest stars of which constellation form the asterism known as the Big Dipper in the United States and Canada, or the Plough in the United Kingdom and Ireland?
57. As what did "Vinicius and Tom" become a popular pairing in December 2014?
58. What is prussic acid, found in bitter almonds and laurel leaves, also known as?
59. What name is given to sympathetic pregnancy?
60. What is the prevailing climate in northern Mali?
🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books