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General Knowledge Quiz 16 (60 MCQs)

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1. Whose followers rose in 1745, taking Edinburgh and defeating the government army in Scotland at the Battle of Prestonpans, marched into England as far as Derby but were defeated by the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746?
2. For the New Zealand-American Rocket Lab's successful launch of an orbital-class launch vehicle in 2018, what rocket engines were used?
3. Clara Petacci was the mistress of whom?
4. What is the oldest stock exchange in the USA?
5. The GANEFO tournaments were initiated, and first held, where?
6. What is Marchalina hellenica?
7. What is the name for the distance between the main deck and the load waterline of a ship?
8. Which of these is a honey-and herb-flavoured golden scotch whisky liqueur made from aged malt whisky, heather honey and a secret blend of herbs and spices, produced in Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland?
9. What is the technical term for a subjunctive?
10. Which German composer was assistant to Wagner at Bayreuth 1880-1, taught at Barcelona, Frankfurt and Berlin, and is best known for his opera "Hansel and Gretel" ?
11. Where is the classic French dish, bouillabaisse, said to originate?
12. What World Heritage Site is located 20 miles north of Stonehenge in the UK?
13. What did the band S Club 7 change their name to when Paul Cattermole left in June 2002?
14. What is a form of asexual reproduction found in females, where growth and development of embryos occurs without fertilisation by a male?
15. Who sang with the Animals?
16. What is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Federated States of Micronesia?
17. Which is the odd one out?
18. Who was the founder of engineering firm Marman Products Co, which designed and manufactured the catch which among other things held the Enola Gay bomb in place during transport?
19. What is the "First Law of Robotics" devised by Isaac Asimov in his science fiction stories?
20. Traditionally, what are the black keys of a piano made of?
21. What term can apply to someone's mouth, a colostomy, and trepanning?
22. When is Labour Day in the USA, Bermuda and Canada?
23. What was the occupation of John Spilsbury of London, England, who is credited with inventing the jigsaw puzzle around 1760?
24. What was the catch-cry of the Three Musketeers?
25. The Tiergarten, German for "Animal Garden", is the name of both a park and a locality in which city?
26. Which of these countries was claimed to Portugal, Spain, Brazil and Argentina before becoming independent in 1828 and a republic in 1830?
27. When was the earliest recorded gambling lottery which distributed prize money?
28. What generic term describes food traditionally favoured by southern black Americans such as country fried chicken, chitterlings and black-eyed peas?
29. In England in 1778 Joseph Bramah of Yorkshire patented the first practical what?
30. What church, known as "the Irvingites" mainly due to the preaching of Edward Irving, was founded in Scotland in 1832?
31. Which British film actor and author of 9 autobiographies and 6 fiction books first appeared on a West End stage using his own first name of Derek?
32. What is the name for the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, from which Muslims date their era?
33. Who, with husband Chris Martin, called their child Moses when he was born in 2006?
34. What was the first name of the "Rambo" character created by Sylvester Stallone?
35. Which 1940 film, a story of corruption in politics written and directed by Preston Sturges, is told in flashback by a bartender about his rise to, and fall from, being a state Governor?
36. What organisation, established in 1981 similar to one established in the USA (but limited to the USA) in 1979, is housed at Wingate Institute in Israel?
37. Where was the first annual G6 leaders summit (which later became the G8) held in 1975?
38. A tabard is a type of what?
39. What street leads to the front of Buckingham Palace in London?
40. What size is a standard professional boxing ring?
41. What is the common nickname for a steam-powered winch, widely used in logging, mining and maritime industries?
42. How many three minute rounds are there in a boxing match at the Olympic Games?
43. At which Winter Olympics was artificial snow first used?
44. What does the name of the nursing convent from which the midwives of the British TV series "Call the Midwife" refer to?
45. Why were Canadian men's rowing pair Chris Jarvis and David Calder disqualified in the Semifinal B round of the Men's coxless pair at the 2004 Summer Olympics?
46. Which claimant to the Kingdoms of England and Ireland was de facto monarch of England after the death of Edward VI for just over a week in July 1553, and was executed in 1554?
47. Which empire, established in and around Cappadocia, was powerful in Asia Minor from 1400 to 1200 BC?
48. Who played a professional boxer in a 2004 film?
49. Because of a disputed election result in December 2010, two candidates, Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara, were separately sworn in as the winner of the presidential election in which country?
50. Which 1959 film, produced by John and Roy Boulting, starring Peter Sellers as Kite and Ian Carmichael as Stanley Windrush, was about a trade union reaction to the firing of an incompetent forklift driver?
51. On 2 November 2010, the oil painting "Nude Sitting on a Divan" sold for $ 68.9 million, a record for an artwork by which artist?
52. Tommy Hilfiger is associated with which of these brands?
53. What are the main ingredients of a Waldorf salad?
54. Which of these is an opera in 3 acts composed by William Vincent Wallace, with a libretto by Edward Fitzball based on the play "Don César de Bazan" by Adolphe d'Ennery & Philippe François Pinel Dumanoir that was first produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 15 November 1845?
55. In New Zealand a sport of gumboot tossing is played. A similar sport in north western Spain or south western France involves tossing what?
56. Which of these was a very successful German fighter pilot in World War I who was shot down and killed on the Somme in 1918?
57. Until 1965, it was thought that which planet was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun, rotating once for each orbit and keeping the same face directed towards the Sun at all times, in the same way that the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth?
58. Who caused a stir in the UK on 8 January 2005 by wearing a Nazi storm trooper uniform to a fancy dress party?
59. Which Swedish-Danish crime TV series starts with a body, cut in half at the waist, discovered in the exact middle of the Øresund Bridge which connects Copenhagen with Malmö?
60. Who was the king of Iraq from 1921 to 1933?
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