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General Knowledge Quiz 171 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is a nimiety?
2. A 2 stroke engine, used in such devices as chainsaws, is fuelled by a mixture of petrol and what other liquid?
3. The plot for which musical, with lyrics by Don Black & Christopher Hampton and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, revolves around Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent screen era, living in the past in her decaying mansion?
4. On 11 May 2010 David Cameron was asked by Queen Elizabeth II to form a government and, as Prime Minister of the UK, announced that he wished to lead a formal coalition of the Conservative Party and which other party?
5. What musician was one of the first four to release a record under the new Virgin Records label?
6. When art competitions were introduced into the Olympic Games, the categories were literature, painting, music, sculpture and what other?
7. Goats featured on the cover of which album released on 16 May 1966 by Capitol Records?
8. Which is the largest, by land area, landlocked country in the world?
9. The song "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin" ' from the film "High Noon" was a big hit for Frankie Laine in the early 1950s. Who sang it on the film soundtrack?
10. US President Reagan appointed two Republicans and one Democrat (John Tower, Brent Scowcroft and Edmund Muskie, known as the "Tower Commission") to investigate what?
11. Which of these US states has no Pacific coast?
12. Which of these islands is part of Indonesia?
13. What did US president Harry S. Truman's middle initial stand for?
14. What is the term used in music to designate a passage which brings a piece (or one movement thereof) to a conclusion?
15. Where and when was the 1st Summer Universiade held?
16. The first road tunnel known to have been dug under a navigable river spans which river?
17. John Fogarty was the singer for which of these bands?
18. What geographic and historical term denotes the westernmost protrusion of Asia, bounded by Georgia, Armenia, the Mesopotamian plain, the Euphrates and Orontes Rivers, and the Black, Mediterranean and Aegean Seas?
19. What country was forced to withdraw from the British Commonwealth in 1961 and was reinstated in 1994?
20. Which of these is a synonym for "lascivious" ?
21. After the Rolling Stones released their first LP, who was the first person to leave the band?
22. Why did the UK send two Royal Navy ships in May 2021 to the Bailiwick of Jersey, a British Crown Dependency?
23. What is the name of the strait between New Guinea and the Australian mainland?
24. A compilation of whose inspirational letters to a young jazz student named Anthony, has been published as "To a Young Jazz Musician" ?
25. Which of these is a type of beetle?
26. What was special about "The Daily Courant" that appeared in the early 18th century?
27. Where is the Estádio da Luz ("Stadium of Light"), the home stadium of the association football club S.L. Benfica, which has a capacity of 65, 400, and opened in October 2003, replacing a larger stadium, which was also called Estádio da Luz?
28. Where would the category of "Les Autres" be used in sporting contests?
29. In 1988, the American Society of Civil Engineers created an award to recognize outstanding achievements in erosion control, sedimentation and/or waterway development, named in honour of which scientist?
30. Who was the (subsequently) Pulitzer-Prize-winning American playwright who wrote "The Odd Couple" ?
31. What is known most usually in the UK as "The Sport of Kings" ?
32. What colours are on the flag used to signify the finish of a Formula One motor race?
33. Which of these is in Scotland?
34. Which of these songs started as a number for the 1934 musical film "Hollywood Party" ?
35. A band in Stalybridge, Manchester, England, is possibly what?
36. Where is the strait of Strelasund?
37. To which of these clubs does "gridiron" not refer?
38. What is the only process known to manufacture helium?
39. Who, co-founders of the Spartacist League in January 1916, were executed in Berlin in January 1919?
40. Which author, in his 2006 graphic novel series, put Marvel icons including Spider-Man, the X-Men, Nick Fury, Doctor Strange, Captain America, Daredevil, Doctor Doom, Magneto and more into the context of an Elizabethan London in 1602?
41. What honorific is applied to the Brian Cox who features in TV series such as "Einstein's Shadow", "The Infinite Monkey Cage", "The Planets" and "Postman Pat" ?
42. Which country was under the influence of the USSR immediately following World War II until 1990 when Wojciech Jaruzelski resigned as president and was succeeded by Lech Wałęsa?
43. The northernmost USA state on the eastern seaboard lies partly north of its neighbouring Canadian territory. Which is the state?
44. What was the last engineering work completed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel?
45. By what other name is Ecuador's Archipiélago de Colón known?
46. Where does Winnie-the-Pooh live?
47. Which of these was the cause of 8.5 million refugees and half a million deaths between August and December 1947?
48. What is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message?
49. Who was ousted as Panama's leader after a 1989 US invasion ordered by President George H.W. Bush, was convicted of drug racketeering and related charges in 1992, and was extradited to France at the end of April 2010 on charges of laundering around US$ 3 million in drug proceeds by buying luxury apartments in Paris?
50. What weapon is traditionally held in a scabbard?
51. What is the capital of Nicaragua?
52. Which of these was a nephew of Julius Caesar who became Emperor of Rome?
53. What was the original surname of T E Shaw, an RAF aircraftsman who was killed in a motorbike accident in 1935?
54. What was laudanum used for from the 16th to the 20th century in the West?
55. What or who was Durendal?
56. Which is most closely related to a parabola?
57. Which cartoon series relies on the voices of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria & Harry Shearer?
58. What incident involving Israeli Defence Force medic Elor Azaria in March 2016 resulting in his being sent to prison?
59. Golfer Vijay Singh, who was number one in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005, was born where?
60. The only original member, Ian Paice, still plays drums for which band?
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