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General Knowledge Quiz 164 (60 MCQs)

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1. We the People, which started a new direction in the wargame movement and is influential in current wargame design, is what kind of game?
2. What is the name of the leather ring that a scout uses to hold his scarf together?
3. Who were the brothers of Helen of Troy?
4. How many members are there in the French lower house, the National Assembly?
5. What nationality is Peter Carey, twice Booker Prize winner for his books "Oscar and Lucinda" and "True History of the Kelly Gang" ?
6. What physics principle is important in operating a funicular railway?
7. Figure skating was first contested as an Olympic sport at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. There were 5 events:Mens & Ladies singles, Special figures, Mixed pairs, and Ice Dancing. Which country won the most medals (6)?
8. Which of these is a 1967 British film starring Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall and Lulu that was based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by E. R. Braithwaite?
9. When English King Henry I died apparently from eating a surfeit of lampreys in 1135, what is he thought to have done?
10. What was the title of George Washington's pronouncement in 1793 that provided a basis for the USA to avoid any involvement in foreign conflicts?
11. Sir Suma Chakrabarti was the 6th President, serving from 2012 to 2020, of what?
12. Which of these is the highest poker hand?
13. In what decade was the sound barrier broken for the first time in level flight by a pilot in a plane?
14. Who played with the "Runaways" and the "Blackhearts" ?
15. Where is the Thorntonbank Wind Farm which provides electricity to Belgium?
16. What term was used to describe the pattern where, from 1840 to 1960, each American President who had won election in a year ending in zero died in office?
17. Cynthia Harnett, Ian Serraillier, Barbara Leonie Picard, and K.M. Peyton are recognised mainly for their writing for what or whom?
18. Which of these countries lies on the African mainland?
19. What is the accounting term for a liability that may arise depending on what happens with an undecided future event?
20. What does Roe v Wade usually signify in the USA?
21. What are faience, raku and majolica?
22. What flower is the English rugby team emblem?
23. What is the lowest number that is both the square of one integer and the cube of another?
24. In 890 CE (and again in 1010 CE) which of these influential bodies of water froze over?
25. Which term was coined by the US computer scientist Grace Hopper in 1945?
26. Which of these is a native American tribe, originally from the Southeastern USA?
27. The Individual World Championships for which sport, the first of which was in 2005 and are held every two years, include events called "Constant Weight", "Constant Weight Without Fins", "Free Immersion", "Variable Weight", "Static", "Dynamic" and "Dynamic No Fins" ?
28. In what year did Canada win a gold medal for the first time at an Olympic Games that they hosted?
29. What are Bêtises de Cambrai?
30. Where is the Walvis Ridge?
31. Which of these is entitled to use the country code top level domain ".gf" ?
32. Until they were cancelled, the 1916 Olympics were to have been held where?
33. The Greek tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides wrote dramas dealing with which legendary woman?
34. What is the primary intelligence agency of Albania that was created in 1991?
35. Malick Sidibé chronicled what period of awakening consciousness?
36. The Bale, or Urgoma, Mountains are in which country?
37. Which of these people was tasked by the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of "Degenerate art" made by German modern artists?
38. Jessica Simpson appeared as Daisy in which 2005 film?
39. Egg-based painting medium is known as what?
40. What is an old European lawn game, still played in parts of England and Wales, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, from which ten-pin bowling, duckpin bowling, and candlepin bowling in the USA, and five-pin bowling in Canada are descended?
41. Who were the main figures involved in the introduction in 1892 of 35 mm film for still photography and motion pictures?
42. Which of these wines comes from Portugal?
43. The main ingredients of advocaat (or advokat), a rich and creamy liqueur with a smooth, custard-like flavour, are sugar, brandy and what else?
44. The film, "The Room" (2003) written, partly directed by, and starring, Tommy Wiseau was widely described by audience, critics and academia as what?
45. Adjustment of layers of iridophore cells in some animals accounts for what?
46. In which country are members of parliament known, not as MPs, but TDs?
47. For which painting was Edouard Manet condemned as incompetent and subversive by critics, which damaged his reputation for years?
48. Who, in Formula One, between 2006 and 2010, was the youngest Formula One driver to:drive at a Grand Prix meeting, score points, lead a race, secure pole position, win a race and win the championship?
49. What professional sport is Arthur Ashe known in?
50. Which of these is in the city of Prague?
51. What is missing (e.g. has been airbrushed out) from the cover of later copies of The Beatles "Abbey Road" album that was published in the original?
52. Who, after a distinguished cricketing career, in his last ever test match innings was bowled out for a duck by Eric Hollies?
53. Which is the 17th century German mathematician and astronomer (at one time assistant to Tycho Brahe) whose works, including '' Epitome of Copernican Astronomy", provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation?
54. Where did Emperor Jimmu rule, in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE?
55. Who wrote the play "Oedipus Rex", "Antigone" and "Electra" ?
56. Dampier in Western Australia is noted for iron ore and which other?
57. Which location-based enhanced reality game developed by Niantic for iOS, Android, and Apple Watch devices was released in July 2016?
58. About how long does it take for the moon to make one orbit of the Earth?
59. What nationality was the writer who created the character Pinocchio?
60. In 1929 Frederick Freed and his wife and an assistant founded a UK company which specialises in what?
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