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General Knowledge Quiz 149 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of these US cities is the furthest north?
2. Which Italian painter contemporary with Caravaggio, celebrated at the time but neglected until recently (with many paintings attributed to others), is admired for work celebrating female strength and chiaroscuro techniques?
3. Which of these would be most involved with the preparation of Coq au Vin?
4. Who married Sarah Hugill in 1972, had two children, divorced in 1983, married Sarah Brightman in 1984, divorced in 1990, married Madeleine Gurdon in 1991, and had three children?
5. Racing what animal, other than a horse, is a popular sport in, for example, the USA, the UK and parts of Africa, often as part of a horse racing event?
6. Which of these is a Shakespearean character?
7. Where are the pyramids which include that of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty pharaoh Taharqa, the oldest and the largest of these?
8. What is the marine system called which circulates nutrients from the deep ocean to its surface?
9. Which writer is quoted as saying "The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction." ?
10. In November 2010, who was widely quoted as saying it's "better to love beautiful girls than gays" ?
11. Which is the shortest distance to travel by water from Bahir Dar to Alexandria?
12. Which river, the longest in France, empties into the Atlantic at St. Nazaire?
13. A best-selling album by Bruce Springsteen was "Born in ..... " what?
14. The term "three in a bed" is used in which sport?
15. Kylie Minogue released which perfume in 2006?
16. Which of these is a treatment used to combat mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia?
17. Mike Moore, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation from 1999 to 2002, was from which country?
18. Cramp affects what part of the body?
19. With which organisation is European star Jiří Kylián most associated?
20. In Australia, what is used to stuff a "carpetbag steak" ?
21. Who or what, at one level, is the "Half" in American author Brit Bennett's book "The Vanishing Half" (2020)?
22. Syntax is the study of the underlying principles and the ways of what?
23. Who was an American serial killer active in various states between 1973 and 1978 who confessed to over 30 murders (estimates range from 26 to over 100)?
24. What is an alternative name for a hydrolaccolith, a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic that can reach up to 70 metres (230 ft) in height and up to 600 m (2, 000 ft) in diameter?
25. One of the children in the 19th century family at the centre of the famous murder trial dramatised in the UK TV show "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher", William Saville-Kent, became a naturalist whose seminal work shaped Australian practice in what area?
26. What is buttock mail?
27. Which classic poem contains the line "Far from the madding crowd" ?
28. As what was Ernest Evans, American rock 'n roll singer and dancer famous for covers such as "Pony Time" and "Limbo Rock", better known?
29. Who was the hero in the "Die Hard" series of films?
30. What is a document that sets out the disposal of assets after death?
31. Which of the following roles was not played by Peter Sellers in the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb" ?
32. What is the term used when one team is beaten throroughly by another?
33. Where was the centennial Winter Olympics held?
34. Which monastic order, founded in 529 CE, was based at a monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy, until it was sacked in 580, when the monks fled to Rome and then spread throughout Europe?
35. Billy Connolly, Robert De Niro, Mia Farrow, Sting, Colin Firth, Pete Townshend, Robert Redford and Damien Hirst were among those who signed an open letter in "The Times" to try to achieve what?
36. Which instrument, with a range of around 3 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to C below middle C, with the others to G, D and A?
37. Where is the radius in the human body?
38. What wine originated in the Spanish town of Jerez de la Fontera?
39. By what name is actor Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez, appearing in a remake of "Anne of Green Gables", better known?
40. Where is it possible to see a solenodon in its native habitat?
41. What are elytra?
42. For what is a slide rule meant to be used in schools?
43. What function does glycerol ester of wood rosin have in foods and drinks?
44. Which of these was published last?
45. Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China has no arable land, pastures, forest, or woodland, and its economy is based largely on tourism with banking, gaming, financial services and what else?
46. Yingluck Shinawatra, the last democratically elected Prime Minister of Thailand (in 2011), is related to Thaksin Shinawatra, the first democratically elected leader under Thailand's 1997 constitution; what relation are they?
47. Three mountains in Japan traditionally revered as holy are Mount Fuji, Mount Tate and which other?
48. What is the capital city closest to due north of Kuala Lumpur?
49. In opera, what is the name given to the person responsible for coaching singers and playing the piano for music and production rehearsals?
50. Several Pragmatic Sanctions are recorded to have been issued, by Justinian I, Emperors Charles V and VI and others. When were the first and the last Pragmatic Sanctions known to have happened?
51. The Unasur Constitutive Treaty, signed on 23 May 2008 in Brasília, Brazil, founded what international body?
52. What is the only US state that touches both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean?
53. To which of these is the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) closest?
54. The Vegan Society defines veganism as "a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable" what?
55. It is considered to have been conceived in the West as an idea in 1508 and in its current highly-oxygen-permeable form 490 years later, and is ..... ?
56. Where are Kick 'em Jenny and Kick 'em Jack found?
57. Who married Liam Neeson in 1994 after they met on the set of the film "Nell" ?
58. Which US president was known as "Tricky Dicky" ?
59. With whom are the islands of Elba and St Helena associated?
60. Which chapel in the Apostolic Palace (the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City), famous for its architecture and decoration, has been frescoed by the Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, and Sandro Botticelli?
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