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General Knowledge Quiz 158 (60 MCQs)

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1. A zebra has the same stripe pattern as which of its relatives?
2. What is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed, that flows through central Russia, and has some of the largest reservoirs in the world?
3. What is the more common name for polytetrafluoroethylene?
4. Vanilla is obtained from what part of the plant?
5. What name was given to a series of treaties between Scotland and France, aimed specifically against England, that began in 1295 and lasted until 1560?
6. In Victorian England, a "hunter" was a common term for a type of what?
7. Who released an album in May 2009 called "21st Century Breakdown" ?
8. Apart from a syringe which of these could also be called hypodermic?
9. In 1971, who hijacked an aeroplane, collected a ransom, parachuted out over the Rocky Mountains and was never seen again?
10. From her first US film musical "Down Argentina Way" (1940), who became famous for extravagant hats, jewellery and dresses?
11. From 2016 to 2023 Tucker Carlson was well-known as what?
12. Who would be interested in pabulum?
13. Poland was partitioned in 1795 and again in 1815. In 1918 what happened?
14. Where would one encounter a rim shot?
15. What are "portobellos" ?
16. In golf, what is the term for "four strokes under par" ?
17. What method of engraving involves cutting lines cut into copper by means of a pointed steel tool?
18. Where were the inaugural Commonwealth Youth Games held?
19. What well-known English author first published under the name Ellis Bell?
20. Which of these is NOT an oxymoron?
21. Which of these is sometimes labelled as "extra virgin" ?
22. Which of these US cities is closest to the Mojave Desert?
23. What is the name for the intense black coloured ink used by artists and draughtsmen, which was originally prepared mainly from lampblack?
24. In the British TV series "Victoria" featuring Jenna Coleman as the Queen, first released in 2016, which building from the period was used for the then very new Buckingham Palace?
25. Who has been married to actress Patricia Arquette (1995 to 2001), singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Elvis Presley, 2002 to 2004) and then to former waitress Alice Kim, with whom he has a son, Kal-El?
26. A sporting event involves propelling an object the most accurately, yet there are no uniform standards for it. What is the object, traditionally around 5-6 m (16-20 feet) long and weighing around 35-60 kg (80-130 pounds)?
27. Which is a "cataract" ?
28. A United Nations report published in July 2007 placed which country first in the industrialised world in marijuana use, at 16.8% of the population?
29. Which English entrepreneur and philanthropist co-founded the record label, Virgin Records?
30. Who would have been most likely to use a fleam?
31. What function does the operculum serve in the human uterus?
32. Who was the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 882 to 887 AD?
33. Where is the United Kingdom's National Space Centre?
34. What phrase refers to a person who is revealed to be different from what they had previously appeared?
35. Tic-tac-toe is another name for which game?
36. If a player was competing in a championship organised by the LIHG, later the IIHF, what sport would they be playing?
37. What is the stage name of Robyn Hannah Louise Kenny, who was born on 7 January, 1983?
38. Who owned "The News" newspaper in Adelaide, diversified into the US, UK and Asian markets, and started Sky TV in Britain in 1989?
39. Of what was the wood nymph, Pomona, goddess in Roman mythology?
40. The Australian city of Melbourne is on which river?
41. Of the various meanings of "gudgeon" which of these is NOT one?
42. A popular myth which has been debunked by sports historians is that Abner Doubleday, a Union officer in the American Civil War, invented which sport?
43. The Potts children are from which film?
44. Samoa, Hawaii and the Tokelau Islands are part of which geographic area?
45. A senate was the governing body of which of these empires?
46. In the 3rd millennium BCE the Indus Valley civilisation was using distance measurements precise to a unit of what?
47. What was the mascot for the XX Commonwealth Games 2014?
48. What subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean, includes Guam, Wake Island, Nauru, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and Kiribati?
49. In 2002 what, possibly unique, reaction was observed in cichlids, a freshwater fish species, in one short stretch of the River Congo?
50. Which of these has the most legs?
51. The name of Justin Timberlake's 2018 album, "Man of the Woods", his first for 5 years, references what?
52. Which word means to move a camera, lighting effect or sound effect from side to side?
53. Polydactyly in people means someone has what?
54. Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) composed a large body of sacred and secular music, particularly noted for the development of the chorale prelude, the fugue and what other music?
55. In USA, Canada and New Zealand, days highlighted in May, November and April respectively all commemorate what?
56. In which award-winning 1985 film do the two protagonists fall in love and then are hired to kill each other?
57. Which American explorer claimed to have been the first person, on 6 April 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole?
58. What is the result if an acid is added to an alkali?
59. Mount Toubkal, 4, 165 m (13, 665 ft), is in what country?
60. Who ordered the execution of Catherine Howard in 1542?
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