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General Knowledge Quiz 153 (60 MCQs)

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1. Whose album after July 2011 became posthumously the UK's best-selling album of the 21st century up until that point?
2. Frank Langella and Anthony Hopkins have both played which historical character?
3. Room 40, or 40 O.B., active 1914 to 1919 in the UK, was a forerunner to a complex known as what?
4. What is another name for a police van?
5. Which of these is a gemstone formed inside some molluscs?
6. In 2001, close to 130 people in Ghana died as a result of a stampede in a stadium towards the end of what?
7. When did art competitions become part of the modern international Olympic Games?
8. One of the requirements to compete in elite ICSD-sanctioned deaf sport is to have a hearing loss of at least how much (in pure tone average)?
9. The term "a glee" could most appropriately be applied to ..... ?
10. Which islands mostly belong to the USA, since they were purchased from Denmark in 1917?
11. What was the first name of Mr. Micawber, who appeared in Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield" ?
12. Which of these is a medical term for the escape of blood from a blood vessel?
13. What are the narrows between Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic?
14. Who did Abraham Lincoln (later to become president of the USA) marry in 1842?
15. A form of invasive toxic freshwater algal bloom known as blue-green is caused by what?
16. Which epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia is believed to have originated as a series of Sumerian legends and poems about a hero-king, which were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem much later?
17. What are the specialised double-membraned ATP-producing subunits found in the cells of most organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus (which includes animals, plants and fungi)?
18. Who was President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979 and was depicted in the film "The Last King Of Scotland" ?
19. When was the first fatality from bird strike on an aircraft?
20. According to Jewish and Christian tradition, where did Noah's Ark come to rest?
21. Which religion is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama?
22. Which of these has three official languages?
23. In 1921 what international event was held in Monte Carlo, organised by Alice Milliat and Camille Blanc?
24. Which of these books was not written by George Orwell?
25. Which band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, had the original members of Eric Burdon, Alan Price, Hilton Valentine, John Steel, and "Chas" Chandler?
26. What action/adventure video game, developed in Newfoundland and released on 6 October 2010, involves a species of extraterrestrials with the intention of enslaving the inhabitants of the Milky Way, requiring the players to defend Earth and restore human civilization?
27. Who was president of the USA when the first shots were fired in the American Civil War at First Sumter?
28. Who was killed on 4 January 1967 when his jet propelled boat, Bluebird K7, somersaulted and disintegrated on Coniston Water?
29. Joseph Canteloube, French composer, musicologist, and author, is particularly well-known for which work?
30. John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and LaGuardia Airport all serve which city?
31. What was a popular international art design movement from 1925 until the 1940s, affecting the decorative arts and industrial design, fashion, painting, the graphic arts, and film, which was, at the time, seen to be elegant, glamorous, functional, and modern?
32. Which of these is an artist who had a boost to her career when John Lennon saw her exhibition at the Indica Gallery, London, in 1966?
33. The legendary character called Beowulf killed who and his mother?
34. The subduction of which tectonic plate beneath the South American Plate is the main force creating the Andes orogeny?
35. Which of these is a common compression method for computer files?
36. Who according to legend was the son of Zeus and Europa and became King of Crete?
37. Which of these is not a rodent?
38. If you travelled east from the north shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda, to western Sumatra what would you be travelling along?
39. On average how long do Mourning Cloaks, some tropical Heliconians, and Monarch Butterflies live once they have reached the adult winged stage?
40. Which of these characters appears in the TV series "True Blood" ?
41. Who was US Ambassador to Great Britain at the start of World War II, from 1938 to 1940?
42. The USA won the most medals at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. Out of these countries, which one won the most?
43. In the first century AD, which rebellious British chieftain, of the Catuvellauni, was taken to Rome in chains?
44. Which of these colours has the shortest wavelength?
45. In 1968, what telephone number was established as the national emergency number for the United States?
46. Who sailed the Golden Hind in the 16th century?
47. In what faith or religion do bhikkhunī feature?
48. What style of music is synonymous with Perez Prado?
49. Where is the second regional gallery in the Tate Gallery network, that was opened in 1993?
50. Which British TV series which ran from 1983 to 2010 was named for a character which, since 1994, had not appeared in it?
51. Who first employed his evolving methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest in 1906 while a lawyer in South Africa during the Indian community's struggle for civil rights to protest against registration laws in the new state of Transvaal?
52. Who created the character of Tarzan?
53. In 1984, Muhammad Ali was diagnosed with what disorder?
54. Which of these was famous as a maker of pianos?
55. How many official sequels were there to the 1975 film "Jaws" ?
56. Where can appeals be lodged against decisions by the Court of Arbitration for Sport?
57. Which of Henry VIII's wives was the mother of Mary I?
58. Shepherd's pie has what on top?
59. Who was famously shot dead while playing cards in Deadwood, South Dakota, on 2 August 1876?
60. Second only to the James Bond series of films, which is the longest continually running UK film series?
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