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General Knowledge Quiz 17 (60 MCQs)

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1. Where is the Bayerische Staatsoper's home base?
2. Which of these was imprisoned for causing the explosion of a Pan American airliner over Lockerbie in 1988?
3. David Attenborough is best known for narrating what kind of TV programme?
4. "Cassata Siciliana" is a type of what?
5. David Leadbetter and Butch Harmon are coaches in which sport?
6. What won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 2000?
7. After Mao Zedong, chairman of the Communist Party of China, launched the Cultural Revolution on 16 May 1966, he attempted to mobilise China's youth, who formed what groups around the country?
8. The European parliament meets in Strasbourg and which other city?
9. Who is the star of TV series "The F Word" and "Hell's Kitchen" ?
10. Although the speed of light is a constant 186, 000 miles per second (299, 792, 458 metres per second) when passing through a vacuum, it slows in dense mediums. What is the densest of these mediums, i.e. slows light the most?
11. Which of these is contained in the nucleus of an atom?
12. Which of these is an Italian film-maker who has an airport named after him?
13. When is Emancipation Day observed in much of Canada, and in the parts of the Caribbean in which there were British possessions in 1833?
14. Where was the Republic of Katanga?
15. If a person has a kit containing dental picks, trowels, brushes, line levels, a sieve, shovels, storage bags, pens/pencils and a tape measure what are they likely to be?
16. Of all of the capitals of sovereign countries that are closest to each other, which two are the furthest apart?
17. Which of these is not an alternative name for a game of dice for one or more players, mostly played in a group of two to four where traditionally a counting box is used with tiles numbered 1 to 9, known as Klackers, Zoltan box, Batten down the Hatches or High Rollers?
18. Where does the €10 Greek commemorative coin, minted in 2003 to commemorate the 2004 Summer Olympics, showing handball take its design from?
19. Who, as president of Argentina, ordered the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982?
20. Which of these is a San Francisco landmark?
21. Who is killed by the Shakespearean character Macduff?
22. Since 2006 what classification is commonly applied to the astronomical body Pluto?
23. Which of these TV series was a cartoon?
24. Which 20th century musical is based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" ?
25. Upper ocean temperatures in parts of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current have increased by how much since 1955?
26. Marie Adolphe Carnot (1839-1920), a French mining engineer and chemist, gave his name to a mineral which is an important source of what?
27. When did the first woman achieve a medical degree in the USA?
28. Herpetophobia is a fear of what?
29. What is the 2018 SXSW Grand Jury prize-winning 12 minute film written, self-funded, directed, acted, and eventually released on line by Jim Cummings?
30. Which of these cities is the furthest West in Europe?
31. Where are the Trossachs?
32. For which musical instrument is rosin useful?
33. Hair described as "bouffant" is what?
34. In 1950 what was the stadium, rebuilt on the site of an earlier stadium from 1922 and eventually demolished in 2002, the home of the professional American Football teams the Baltimore Colts and the Baltimore Ravens?
35. The 2001 TV series "Micawber" was based on a character created by which author?
36. What island nation in the South Pacific Ocean was, from 1906, jointly managed by France and the UK as the New Hebrides, and became a Republic in 1980?
37. A coup in February 2010 led by Colonel Djibril Adamou Harouna displaced president Mamadou Tandja in which country?
38. What is the focus of "The Compleat Angler" by Izaak Walton, first published in 1653 (with additions for another quarter of a century)?
39. Jeff Gillooly, the ex-husband of figure skater Tonya Harding, arranged an attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, a month before the start of the 1994 Olympics. Which of these was not the outcome when both competed?
40. Which of these was no longer an Olympic sport in 2012 but was restored for the 2020 Games?
41. What is a name for the written version of a glottal stop?
42. What is the best known work by German composer Carl Orff?
43. The New York Stock Exchange, established under that name in 1865, deals in what?
44. Of the 4 countries who competed in the Ist World Championship organised by the World Archery Foundation in 1931, the gold medals for both men and women went to Poland; in 2021, of the 55 countries then competing where did the gold medals go?
45. Whose autobiography "Going Rogue" was published in 2009?
46. Which country that achieved independence in 1962 has had leaders named Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada?
47. Which of these had roles in "The Mask", "My Best Friend's Wedding", "There's Something About Mary", "Charlie's Angels", and "Gangs of New York" ?
48. What island off the coast of Iceland was formed in a volcanic eruption which began 130 m (426 ft) below sea level, reached the surface on 14 November 1963 and continued to 5 June 1967, when it measured 2.7 sq km (1 sq mile)?
49. The Hồ Chi Minh Trail was known as what by the people who actually used it?
50. In May 2017 the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK was severely disrupted nationwide by what?
51. A "mahout" is used in which sport?
52. Which of these, used in processing milk, reflects the name of a scientist associated with it?
53. Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Op. 28, is a tone poem written at the end of the 19th century by which composer?
54. Who wrote the influential book "Areopagitica" ?
55. According to the English nursery rhyme, who was asked to "put the kettle on" ?
56. Which optical instrument shows symmetrical forms, produced by a combination of reflecting surfaces?
57. What is significant about the global loop completed by Sarah Outen from the UK in November 2015?
58. A small group of islands north-east of Taiwan is claimed by China, Japan and Taiwan, who each have different names for it. Which of these is not one?
59. What is biltong?
60. Dysmenorrhea is the medical term for what?
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