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General Knowledge Quiz 154 (60 MCQs)

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1. Why, in November 2009, was the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, shut down?
2. What is often cited as the accompaniment to ham?
3. Which comic character was introduced in Detective Comics number 27 in May 1939?
4. Who is SpongeBob SquarePants's pet, who meows like a cat, and lives with him in a pineapple under the sea?
5. Who led a campaign from 1798-1801, taking a force of 500 civilian scientists, specialists in fields such as biology, chemistry and languages in order to carry out a full study of ancient Egypt?
6. Which of these places in England is the most northerly?
7. Where is Parma, which is famous for its cured ham?
8. Marius Petipa's long career was as what?
9. Manchuria is the historical name given to a vast geographic region that falls mostly within what country?
10. What became known as the "Twang Machine" in the late 1950s and early 1960s?
11. Which ingredient particularly distinguishes béarnaise sauce from hollandaise sauce?
12. A red snapper is a type of what?
13. What is commemorated in New Zealand on Waitangi Day?
14. The Roman army left Britain in what century?
15. Iron Maiden, Saxon, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are associated with what style of music?
16. A coherer, hot wire barretter and cat's whisker were all types of what?
17. Why did the International Telecommunication Union abbreviate "Coordinated Universal Time" to "UTC" ?
18. What was invented by Rene Laennec in the early 19th century?
19. What religious sect that uses dancing as a form of worship was founded by Ann Lee, who migrated with her followers from England to New York in 1772?
20. The liqueur Grand Marnier contains the distilled essence of what fruit?
21. What do deciduous trees do?
22. The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 is associated with the name of which Scottish monarch?
23. Which of these was a title for a Roman emperor?
24. Which mountain chain runs down South America?
25. Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983-23 July 2011) an English singer and songwriter known for her deep contralto vocals and her work in a wdie range of musical genres including R & B, soul and jazz, is recorded as dying from what cause?
26. Which river runs through the cities of Cincinnati and Pittsburgh?
27. According to the title of the 1975 film starring Jack Nicholson, how many " ..... flew over the Cuckoo's nest" ?
28. In which country is the Nubian Desert?
29. Which one of these people is most associated with heat treatment of milk?
30. Architect George Clarke fronts which TV series?
31. The Pyrenees mountain range is on which continent?
32. What Scottish place name is used for a promontory?
33. "Ted" Kaczynski, an American anarchist and mathematical prodigy, became known as what?
34. On 3 May 2010 United and which other airline announced a stock-swap to combine them into the world's largest airline?
35. According to the Beatles, who had a Lonely Hearts Club Band?
36. Around 2, 000 of which type of rocket-propelled pilotless bomb was launched on London from 8 September 1944 to March 1945?
37. Elizabeth II is (in August 2022) the Queen regnant of how many independent sovereign states known informally as the Commonwealth realms, for which she holds each crown separately and equally in a shared monarchy?
38. The Indian dish "Dopiaza" is named for the Indian word for which of these, which is an ingredient?
39. What British sitcom that aired from 1979 to 1981 in the UK, starred Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles?
40. When was the company, the Tabulating Machine Company which later joined with three others to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, first launched?
41. When did Telefónica Romania, the first mobile phone operator in Romania, launch the Telemobil service?
42. Who, called the "King of Jazz", was the leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, commissioned and debuted George Gershwin's jazz-influenced "Rhapsody In Blue" in 1924?
43. Which group recorded the satirical look at the music industry "Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One" ?
44. Where would you meet the terms straight rail, cushion, balkline, artistic and cowboy?
45. Who officially represented Brazil at the opening of the 2016 Rio Olympics?
46. Who plays Gabrielle Solis in the US TV series "Desperate Housewives" ?
47. Which opera shocked audiences at its première due to a combination of a biblical theme, the erotic and the murderous, especially "The Dance of the Seven Veils" and the heroine making necrophiliac love?
48. The US TV series "The In-Betweeners", the remake of the UK series of the same name, featured the writer of "My Name is Earl" Brad Copeland for several episodes, and director Taika Waititi from the 2004 Academy Award nominated short film called what?
49. What did the London Agreement 1949 concern?
50. The Paraguay/Paraná River basin covers about 2, 800, 000 sq. km (1, 081, 000 sq. miles) of Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina and where else?
51. Which of these Canadian provinces is landlocked?
52. NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) welcomed which new member on 6 May 1955?
53. Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, as well as creating what became the cult British sci fi TV series "Thunderbirds", created what series around the adventures of a 9 year old boy?
54. The Humen Strait, Bocca Tigris or Bogue Strait sits in what waters?
55. At the official opening ceremony of which building, on 29 March 1871, did the Prince of Wales take the place of the Queen to declare it open?
56. Who wrote the children's books centred round Dr Doolittle?
57. What is the largest species of whale?
58. Who or what was the African Queen in the 1935 novel and the 1951 film of the same name?
59. What British TV series was set at Maplins Holiday Camp?
60. Where is the largest waterfall in the world by depth and water volume?
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