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General Knowledge Quiz 152 (60 MCQs)

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1. What system of psychology, popularised by F J Gall and J K Spurzheim in the 19th century, claims that mental faculties and dispositions can be determined by the shape of the skull?
2. What is the highest mountain on Antarctica?
3. What was the name given to an insurrection (the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798) led by schoolteacher and barrister Patrick Pearse from 24 April to 30 April 1916, with the aim of establishing the Irish Republic?
4. Who won the World Darts Championship 4 times in the 1980s?
5. What was the name of the British Home Guard when it was founded in 1940?
6. Which of these is a composer who produced most of his work between 1916 and 1958?
7. How did the Roman Calendar differ from the Julian and subsequent Gregorian calendars?
8. Who is a unit of length (one hundred millionth of a centimetre), used to measure wavelengths of light, named after?
9. Which of these is a type of trousers associated with golf?
10. Which of these was a leading British civil engineer, who built bridges, tunnels, dockyards, a major railway line and a series of famous steamships in the first half of the 19th century?
11. Chandrayaan-3 from India is one of two what, completing the first stage of their mission in August 2023?
12. Who wrote "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van" ?
13. Which of these is British slang for someone from the Birmingham area?
14. Which of these is a sugar substitute?
15. In 1991, Warner Bros was picketed by a major national organisation over the use of which cartoon character?
16. The sinking, approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia, of which steamship on 12 November 1928, with a loss of over 100 lives, particularly of women and children after it was abandoned, had a major impact on the second International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea in 1929?
17. What would be an internationally expected sight in Harbin in the province of Heilongjiang, north-eastern China, in January?
18. In the music industry, what does an A & R man do?
19. What YouTuber made a song called "Cookie Dance" in 2013 under the name ChipChocolate?
20. Where was the British ship Royal Oak sunk by German submarine U47 in October 1939?
21. What is the name for a raised block of the earth's crust thrown up between two faults?
22. Four countries have observer status to the Arab League, which entitles them to express their opinion and give advice but denies them voting rights. They are Eritrea, Brazil, Venezuela and which other?
23. What is the first on the list if these words are sorted based on the penultimate letter of each word?
24. From the 17th century to the early 20th century what was the main material used for billiard balls?
25. In 1291 a number of mainly alpine European communities formed a protective alliance which with the later addition of others became what is now known as what?
26. In World Surfing League regulations, what is the minimum age to compete in any event outside the competitor's region?
27. What is added to paella as a spice and to give it a golden colour?
28. Who made the first, in western countries, practical successful and widely usable vaccinations in 1796 against smallpox?
29. What is the name of the three bones that make up a human finger?
30. Which unstable, combustible material is used in the production of explosives, matches and electric batteries, as well as in etching copper, in manufacturing coloured glass, in the leather industry, in dyeing, and as an antiseptic?
31. The Soviet Union (USSR) hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics but declined to host the Paralympics which accompanied them. Which was a statement the USSR was reported to have made about the question?
32. An orchestra frequently tunes to an A provided by which instrument?
33. Which country has won the most medals at the European Beach Volleyball Championship (later known as the Nestea European Championship Final) between 2000 and 2008 inclusive?
34. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics in part honoured the discovery that a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity is what?
35. Which of these is a book by Jacqueline Susann?
36. Which of these states of the USA extends the furthest West?
37. In which year did George Bush succeed Ronald Reagan as US President, the US ratified the Berne convention on copyright, Time Inc and Warner Communications merged to form Time-Warner, and the Exxon Valdez spilled oil in Alaska?
38. The ratio of the input voltage to the output voltage of a transformer is directly proportional to what?
39. What is 52 pick up "played" with?
40. Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret ( 1879-1957), composer, musicologist, and author, was most closely associated with what region?
41. Who released the albums "Hounds of Love" and "The Red Shoes" ?
42. Ed Moses (United States) and Martina Moravcová (Slovakia) won World Cups for which sport in 2001/2002 and 2003/2004?
43. First held in 1603, a contest takes place annually in Musselburgh, Scotland, in what sport?
44. What is the longest continuously-serving state capital in the USA?
45. On 20 April 2020 the oil market in the USA saw what historic occurrence?
46. What is the name of the capital city of Bermuda?
47. When were the French and Indian Wars (or the Intercolonial Wars), of which Queen Anne's War was one, fought in North America?
48. What live in an artificial environment known as a formicarium?
49. According to tradition, elephants have good what?
50. Which is the film, about canine reincarnation and the relationships between father and son and master and dog, based on an Alan Sharp adaptation of a short novel by Irish author Lord Dunsany?
51. Scottish stonemason, architect and civil engineer, Thomas Telford is well-known for designing the Menai Suspension Bridge and also for a design known as the "Telford ..... " what?
52. Where is Oakland?
53. James, son of Mary Queen of Scots (who was executed for treason during the reign of Elizabeth I) was the first to use which title?
54. Who wrote "Futility" (1898) about an enormous "unsinkable" British passenger liner called the Titan, which hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of nearly all on board?
55. What does the "I" in the acronym IKEA stand for?
56. Where did Portuguese traders begin to settle in the 16th century, administering the area until 20 December 1999?
57. What is the first name of "Seinfeld" ?
58. Which of these can be a synonym for "capital" ?
59. Which of these is a chemical released by one or more cells that affects cells in other parts of the organism, only a small amount of which is needed to alter cell metabolism that, in animals, are often transported in the blood?
60. Someone in disgrace is said to be where?
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