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General Knowledge Quiz 166 (60 MCQs)

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1. Where are New Zealand's parliament buildings?
2. Which of these US army ranks is the highest?
3. What does the "G" stand for in "MGM" ?
4. Which of these items of clothing is measured with letters and numbers?
5. REM is a term sometimes applied to what?
6. What is a name for the sign which can mean either "number" or "pound" (weight) depending on its position?
7. Penfold is the sidekick of which British animated super hero / secret agent?
8. What 2008 American science-based drama TV series of 18 one-hour episodes starring Rufus Sewell and Marley Shelton is based on a 2006 British TV series of the same name?
9. How many members are there in the US upper house, the Senate?
10. In late 2021 the first orally administered treatment to combat a virus was announced. Which virus?
11. The oldest bowls club in Scotland still in continuous use was founded in Kilmarnock in which year?
12. Which of these was the companion of Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days" ?
13. Who created the character of James Bond?
14. The Battle of the Tiger's Mouth in 1809-10 was fought between which two forces?
15. According to Jewish holy books, which of these were daughters of Laban the Aramean, married to the same man (his nephew), and parents to founders of the tribes of Israel?
16. During World War II, Operation Sealion was the codename for the invasion of which area?
17. What language does the modern English "cat" come from originally?
18. What characterises a regular polygon?
19. In what year was the Irish parliament abolished and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland come into being?
20. The Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme were fought during which war?
21. In the first two decades of the 20th century a number of European and USA expeditions were made, eventually successfully, to where?
22. What animal, introduced to Australia in the 19th century, had a feral population there by 2010 of between 500, 000 and 750, 000?
23. What is Lester William Polsfuss famous for developing and inspiring?
24. The "Westminster", that is held annually at Madison Square Garden in New York, is what sort of event?
25. Who is the natural father of Fifi Trixibelle (born in 1983), Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa (1989), Little Pixie (1990) and the adoptive father of Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily (1996)?
26. Where is the Sea of Muscovy?
27. What is the world's smallest island nation, covering 21 square kilometres (8.1 square miles)?
28. The Columbia Pictures logo in 1924 was a female figure, as now, but with a shield in her left hand and what in her right hand?
29. "Goal attack" and "wing defence" are positions in which sport?
30. Guillemette du Luys was one of only two women to do what?
31. Which country is the 2016 Pan-American Men's Champion in Tchoukball?
32. What is the collective name for the islands with a land area of 4, 167 squ km (1, 622 squ miles) over 2, 500, 000 squ km (965, 255 squ miles) of ocean, made up of several groups of islands, including the Austral Islands, the Marquesas, the Society Islands and the Tuamotu Archipelago?
33. What is the highest waterfall in the world?
34. Which of these countries is assessed by the International Monetary Fund in 2018 as South America's poorest in terms of GDP per capita?
35. Phycology or algology includes the study of what?
36. Which of these is a word for a tea urn used in Russia?
37. Madeleine Albright was appointed by Bill Clinton as the USA's first woman to hold what position?
38. By what name is the game known as Captain's Mistress, Four Up, or Gravitrips also widely known?
39. In 1985 Stevie Wonder won an Oscar for the song "I Just Called to Say I Love You"; shortly afterwards it was banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation. What was the reason?
40. Which of these is not a member of the onion family?
41. When did the spinning jenny become an element in the Industrial Revolution in Britain?
42. Who is the long-standing host of the British topical, satirical celebrity panel show "Mock the Week" ?
43. What is the name of about 1, 100 acres (445 hectares) of peat bog near Greater Manchester, England that was reclaimed in the latter half of the 19th century for farming and the disposal of city waste?
44. A person whose pessimism lowers the spirits of others is called a what?
45. Which song has the opening lines "She says its cold outside, she has no raincoat. She always worries about things like that" ?
46. In cricket, what name is given to a lower-order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play, to maintain most of the strike until the close of play and so protect other, more capable batsmen from being out cheaply in what may be a period of tiredness or in poor light?
47. Which musical term denotes a slide in pitch which moves in discrete steps, such as dragging a finger over the keys of the piano?
48. The character of Emile le Beque appears in which musical?
49. Which police station is at the centre of the long-running UK TV series "The Bill" ?
50. In Egypt in December 2021, a team led by Jiajing Wang from Dartmouth University uncovered the oldest known production-at 5, 800 years ago-of what?
51. When did the powerful Kaanul dynasty (the Snake Kings) rule, the remains of whose monuments and inscriptions are now found in northern Guatemala, southern Mexico and elsewhere in the Yucatan Peninsula?
52. The invention of what game, needing only pencil and paper, is sometimes attributed to Clifford von Wickler in the early 1900s?
53. When is the sport of shinty thought to have been introduced to Scotland?
54. Who investigated Bill Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater Land Transactions and his role in the Monica Lewinsky affair?
55. At the 1976 Olympic Games at Montreal, who repeated (from the 1972 Games at Munich) his double gold in the 5, 000 metres and 10, 000 metres, making him the first athlete to win the distance double twice?
56. What is the aim in a game of Hearts?
57. In August 2005, which single broke a record for the most digital downloads in a week, selling over 80, 000 digital downloads, and was the fastest selling digital download of all time?
58. When was the Court of Arbitration for Sport established, and by which body?
59. What Brazilian city exports more coffee than any other port in the world?
60. What scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets?
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