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General Knowledge Quiz 173 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the next in this series:Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Siegfried, ..... ?
2. What word is derived from the Spanish word for "chestnut" ?
3. When was the current theme for the BBC television programme Top Gear first released on an album?
4. What was the title of the film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood that was about a thinly disguised episode in John Huston's life?
5. "Bonanza" is the Spanish word for what?
6. The French song "Alouette" describes plucking what kind of bird?
7. What military unit was established in 1831 so that foreign nationals could serve in a nation's Army?
8. By what name was Lucille Le Sueur better known?
9. During a 22-season career (1890-1911) this player established numerous records which lasted more than a century in what sport?
10. What part does Greek legend assign the Titan, Prometheus, in the development of science (among other things) on Earth?
11. In what activity would a "waulking song" occur?
12. What is a group of stars called?
13. Who became Heavyweight world boxing champion after Riddick Bowe refused to fight him in 1992?
14. Which of these is Marge Simpson's mother?
15. How far is our Earth from its sun?
16. Which theme park in LA County, California, USA, initially created to offer tours of soundstages and sets, is one of the oldest movie studios still in use and was the first of many similar theme parks in, for example, Florida and Japan?
17. For administrative purposes, Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, formerly termed vilayet, which are now called ..... what?
18. What is the distinguishing colour of a male morpho butterfly?
19. What was the last year in which there was just one World Darts Championship?
20. How many sports are there in a decathlon?
21. Atlantic equatorial currents pushed westward by the Trade Winds unite in the Gulf of Mexico and then flow northward. What is the north-flowing current called?
22. Fennec Shand teams up with the eponymous character in a Star Wars-type adventure TV series released from what streaming service?
23. The Eusébio de Queirós Law passed in 1850 in Brazil did what?
24. The long-established ceremony in Oxfordshire, England, of "scouring the Horse", described by academic and archivist Francis Wise in 1736, relates to what?
25. Which Austrian performed the winning song, "Rise Like a Phoenix", at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014?
26. Which Olympic Games were the first where all continents were represented, with all athletes competing in one stadium?
27. What is an element of the game bossaball which distinguishes it from volleyball?
28. Who principally studied transplant rejection and immunosuppression after World War II, which led him to perform the first successful living kidney transplant in the UK on 30 October 1960?
29. Where was the opening ceremony for the 1948 Summer Olympics held on 29 July?
30. Rum is the basis for which of these cocktails?
31. In the 1990s, which country briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre and from 2001 to 2008, accepted aid from the Australian government in exchange for housing an illegal migrant detention centre that held and processed asylum seekers trying to enter Australia?
32. What is sometimes known as a buttonwood tree?
33. What passes between the sun and Earth to make a solar eclipse?
34. After Mao Zedong's death his wife, together with others of the Gang of Four, was put on trial and sentenced to death; when did she die?
35. In a Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 report published in 2017, mussels living around extreme deep-sea hydrothermal vents and methane seeps had genes which strengthened what?
36. What nationality is the director of the BAFTA-and Palme d'Or-winning drama "Paris, Texas" (1984)?
37. The stags of which deer species make a shrill whistling sound during rutting season, rather than a roar or grunt?
38. Which of these is not a European airport first opened for non-military use before 1920?
39. Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is the collective name for a number of activities to search for extra-terrestrial life using scientific methods to search for what, specifically?
40. In the northern hemisphere, what season begins in one calendar year and ends in the next?
41. What is another name for caustic soda?
42. What game is also known as "Literati", "Alfapet", "Funworder", "Skip-A-Cross", "Spelofun", "Palabras Cruzadas" and "Word for Word" ?.
43. The islands of Alderney, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou and Sark are administered directly by a government based where?
44. What is a common factor in the careers of Giacomo Puccini, Paul McCartney, and Arthur Sullivan?
45. Which little girl in a pink-and-white striped dress did author and illustrator Joyce Lankester Brisley feature in her series of children's books?
46. Where did the bouquets presented to athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics come from?
47. The male of which crab has one claw much longer than the other?
48. Which of these played a part, at least figuratively, in the original meaning of "kerfuffle" ?
49. What law is "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure" ?
50. Which band's seventh album "In Rainbows" was released through their website on 10 October 2007 as a download for which customers could make whatever payment that they wanted, even nothing?
51. "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll", a 1955 play by Ray Lawler, is set in Carlton, a suburb of what city?
52. Which British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet who had strong views on matters such as immigration, national identity, monetary policy, and the UK's entry into the EEC, was a Conservative Party MP 1950 to 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP 1974 to 1987?
53. What is the name of the whirlpool system between two islands of the Lofoten Group north west of Norway?
54. Unlike many artists he was extremely wealthy from the income from his work during his lifetime, and was given his country's highest honour for his work; who was he?
55. In organic substrates what is the prime means of generating adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in the absence of oxygen?
56. Who was Prime Minister of the UK on 28 March 1979, when the House of Commons passed a Motion of No Confidence, forcing a general election that was won by Margaret Thatcher?
57. What substance was believed by Alchemists to transmute other metals into gold?
58. Which British show, featuring adult contestants and broadcast by the BBC on 31 May 1938, is generally held to have been the world's first TV game show?
59. Which Scotsman was given a ship by Americans to harass English shipping near Great Britain, and later became an admiral in the Russian Navy of Catherine The Great?
60. Jocky Wilson, an unemployed coal delivery man and miner, was World professional Champion in 1982 and 1989 in what sport?
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