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General Knowledge Quiz 163 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is a jury said to do when it leaves the courtroom to consider a verdict?
2. The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, established in 1884, was formed by people from what religion?
3. The symptoms for which poisoning include seizures, a "sawhorse" stance, rigid extension of all four limbs and respiratory paralysis?
4. In 1886, John Pemberton claimed that a certain concoction cured diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence. Which was it?
5. In 1848, the USA offered Spain $ 100 million, equivalent to around $ 2.45 billion in present day terms, for the purchase of which area of land?
6. Which of these, a landlocked principality, is the smallest German-speaking country in the world?
7. Which skilled scat singer has also won 5 Emmy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, and has an honorary doctorate from the Juilliard School of Dance, Drama and Music, New York?
8. Between 1901 and 1909, Karl Landsteiner, Jan Janský and William Moss worked on the classification of what?
9. Which of these is traditionally played as a card game?
10. Which tafelberg is associated with Cape Town, South Africa?
11. What musical term means "an immediate reduction in pace" ?
12. Gaius Julius Civilis led a revolt by which tribe, of which he was a hereditary prince, against the Roman Empire in 69 CE?
13. Which orange-seller became an actress, then mistress of King Charles II, died in 1687 aged 37, and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields?
14. During which war were occupying Ottoman forces forced to withdraw from the town of Aqaba after a raid led by T. E. Lawrence and the Arab forces of Sharif Hussein?
15. What was the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that was at its peak in October 1962?
16. The design specification for the Ford GT40, which won the Le Mans 24 Hour race four years in a row, specified that car be a maximum of ..... ?
17. The aquatic snails known as limpets have what shape shell?
18. Absolute zero is at approximately what temperature?
19. What is the main equipment needed to play Shinty?
20. In another life Princess Anni-Frid, Dowager Countess of Plauen, had a career as what?
21. Most of the coastline of the southern half of Africa is characterised by what?
22. What is a poussin?
23. What do ostlers do?
24. The sun is mostly made up of what material?
25. Where is the Quebrada de las Conchas (Shell Ravine), a nature reserve with 46 km of multiple rock formations carved by tectonics, wind, and water?
26. Which of these is not the natural habitat of the tiger?
27. What is the usual food source for a hoatzin?
28. Since about 1200 CE what shape have neums, or neumes, usually been in Western tradition?
29. What is a navigation instrument used until the 18th century to measure the angles between heavenly bodies, or between them and the horizon?
30. Which of these is an actor who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "The Godfather Part II" (1974), and for Best Actor as the lead in "Raging Bull" (1980)?
31. As at 2017 which country was the leading exporter of dates?
32. What was the name of the German troops that were sent to assist General Franco in the Spanish Civil War?
33. Before becoming US president, George W Bush was governor of which state?
34. Typically, a male moose sheds its antlers how frequently?
35. The arcade game "Rockford", released in 1988, is a spin-off from what game?
36. Rainforest, despite continuing burning, felling and mining, is still characteristic of a large part of what region in South America?
37. Which of these is a scoring system used in golf which involves scoring points based on the number of strokes taken at each hole?
38. What is the national intelligence agency of Israel?
39. Which French dramatist, one of the "Big Three" of 17th century France and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition wrote the comedy "Les Plaideurs" and the tragedies "Alexandre le Grand", "Andromaque", "Athalie", "Bajazet", "Bérénice", "Britannicus", "Esther", "Iphigénie", "La Thébaïde", "Mithridate" and "Phèdre" ?
40. Which Sultan of Egypt ruled an expanding empire that included Syria, Mesopotamia, and most of Asia Minor until stopped in 1192 by Richard I in the third Crusade?
41. What game involves throwing rings to get them on or near a pin?
42. If you travelled directly west from Luanda, Angola, which of these countries would you reach first?
43. In the 1790s, what were "chouans" ?
44. In mathematics, what is a 3-manifold?
45. Who is the next in this series:Annette Kaye, Frada Miller, Alene Akins, Mickey Sutphin, Alene Akins, Sharon Lepore, Julie Alexander, ..... ?
46. In 2017 the top three golf players in the final world rankings were from the USA; when did this last happen?
47. The Peripatetic School founded by Aristotle was called this for what reason?
48. In probability theory, a stochastic process is what kind?
49. What instrument for measuring radiant heat was devised by Langley, an American physicist, in 1881?
50. British author George Orwell, as well as being renowned for his novels, is widely respected for what?
51. Which 1959 film starring Charlton Heston won a record 11 Academy Awards?
52. What type of animal is a mikrogeophagus altispinosus, sometimes known as a Bolivian Ram?
53. Which was the first Olympic Games to held in the Balkans, after the 1896 Games in Athens?
54. Where in the USA are the lowest point in North America together with the highest point in the contiguous 48 states of the USA?
55. Bertrand Russell, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Immanuel Kant and Socrates are most usually described as what?
56. An eruption in Iceland, known as the Laki eruption, where lava erupted from a 17-mile crack rather than from a standard volcano and lava tubes extended lava travel to more than 50 miles, devastated the country killing 80% of livestock, caused starvation for over 20% of the population, and affected areas as far as Africa and Asia. When was this?
57. Which Swiss scientist is known for his work to synthesise, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)?
58. Who was British prime minister at the start of World War I?
59. Why was Formula One's 1975 Grand Prix round in Spain stopped permanently mid race?
60. What is the name of the process by which a wave motion such as light or sound is turned back on reaching a boundary between two media?
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