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General Knowledge Quiz 161 (60 MCQs)

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1. The first Punic War was fought mainly on which island?
2. What is the name of the government-owned corporation that provides the intercity passenger train service in the USA?
3. What was the name for a foul smell believed to carry diseases, since discredited by the discovery of infectious agents?
4. How did Boris Godunov, one of Russia's Tsars in the early 17th century, come to power?
5. What do the plays Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh have in common?
6. Which is a surname of a famous 16th century English scientist and statesman (and, in a later century, a famous British painter)?
7. Which team beat the defending champions, Russia, 2-1 in the final of the 2010 Ice Hockey World Championships?
8. Marked the first what for the International Cycling Association World Championships?
9. Which best describes the voraciously carnivorous (sometimes cannibal) small fish Histrio histrio, the Sargassum fish?
10. From what sport did top-ranking athlete Naomi Osaka publicly take a break in 2021?
11. Which US state consists of two separate peninsulas, separated by the Straits of Mackinac, a five-mile (8 km)-wide channel?
12. What peninsula on the north coast of the Black Sea is connected to the mainland by the isthmus of Perekop?
13. Which country, after Sultan Hussein Shah signed a treaty with the British East India Company on 6 February 1819, officially became a British colony on 2 August 1824 by a new treaty with the Sultan and the Temmenggong?
14. Where are pingos more likely to be found?
15. Which country has the International Dialling prefix 964?
16. What is Ruth Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, popularly known for?
17. What is the southernmost point in all U.S. territory?
18. Where would you expect to find "dudeln" ?
19. Which category of instrument includes the flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon?
20. According to John Gray's famous book, men and women are respectively from where?
21. What are the sculptures at the foot of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, London?
22. What French political scandal involved the sentencing of an artillery officer to life imprisonment for treason in 1894, who was exonerated and reinstated to the French Army in 1906 after the discovery that the French government had fabricated evidence?
23. With whom was Miley Cyrus performing at the MTV Video Music Awards 2013 when she twerked?
24. How many Mexican states share a land border with the USA?
25. Early investigations, in 1985, into the existence of a carbon molecule C60 later called a fullerene tried to replicate the conditions of what?
26. Which of these countries produces the most bananas?
27. What is a "thresher" ?
28. How many different calendars are in use in the world for some or all of the year, for religious, administrative or social purposes?
29. What is the capital of Wales?
30. What was the name of the Ewing ranch in the TV series "Dallas" ?
31. Where did Stradivari, the famous violin maker, live and work?
32. The Caspian Sea is bordered by how many countries?
33. Which country ceded Guam to the US in December 1898?
34. How many US states share a land border with Canada?
35. During World War I and II the US army maintained a unit whose task was the training and use of what, for communication and reconnaissance purposes?
36. Who worked on the film scripts for "Barbarella", "Dr Strangelove ..... ", "Easy Rider", "Candy" and "The Magic Christian" ?
37. What term applies to an engine comprising two banks of four cylinders inclined towards each other, with a common crankshaft?
38. Which of these Canadian provinces is the furthest west?
39. What does the French word "croissant" mean?
40. Where are the Shikmona and Mers a-Matruh gyres?
41. What is the name for the area of the Atlantic Ocean south east of Bermuda distinguished by the mass of brown seaweed that floats there?
42. Colin Meads, nicknamed 'Pinetree', a former rugby union footballer who played 55 test matches for his national team from 1957 until 1971 and was named his country's Player of the Century, represented which country?
43. Who captained the Nautilus in "20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea" ?
44. What is expected of a recidivist?
45. Where is Guanabara Bay?
46. Who was the All Black (New Zealand rugby) captain to have been inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame (now the World Rugby Hall of Fame) in 2007, the year after the Hall was established?
47. Which shipping passage was closed from 1967 to 1975?
48. What was the cause of the sinking of the German battleship the "Admiral Graf Spee" ?
49. The photographer and photo reporter Oliviero Toscani became known world-wide in association with what or whom?
50. Pankaj Advani has won multiple World Championships in which two disciplines?
51. Who wrote the poem "Daffodils" ?
52. From which sport do we get the expression "par for the course" ?
53. Who created the statue of "David", which is held in Florence's Academia Gallery?
54. What type of geographical feature is an ox-bow?
55. What is the branch of medicine dealing with diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the human heart?
56. Who is the New Zealander who directed "Shrek", "Shrek 2", "The Chronicles of Narnia:The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and "The Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian" ?
57. What 1936 film sets out a future to 2036, predicting World War II from 23 December 1940, bombing raids on cities, a plague ("wandering sickness") in 1966, and a civilization based in Basra, Iraq, that renounced war and outlawed independent nation-states?
58. What does UAE stand for?
59. Where is the Tynwald the legislative body?
60. Especially in the USA, Canada and Australia, what term is used to describe an elected official approaching the end of their tenure?
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