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General Knowledge Quiz 174 (60 MCQs)

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1. What cocktail is made with advocaat and lemonade?
2. Which country declared a state of emergency on 8 November 2005 as a result of prolonged rioting, allegedly provoked by the death of 2 teenagers?
3. Which country is known as "The Land of 1, 000 Lakes" ?
4. The Boer War was fought in which country?
5. What was the flight number of the aircraft which disappeared in 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and has still not been traced?
6. In Walt Disney's "Snow White", which dwarf was completely bald, with not even a beard?
7. Which wonder of the ancient world was at Olympia?
8. What is another word for a hiccup?
9. In the middle of the 16th century in what is now known as Nigeria, the warrior Queen Amina (or Aminatu) ruled where, expanding it and making it the first united Hausa kingdom?
10. What did the Walt Disney Company buy most of the rights and assets to in February 2004?
11. Which of these was a nickname for professional golfer Jack Nicklaus who was competitive internationally from 1962 to 1980?
12. Which of these flags does not have an eagle on it?
13. Who created the framework for the Virginia Plan, that structured the US Government into three branches?
14. What are ratites?
15. The islands of Tristan da Cunha are 2, 816 kilometres (1, 750 miles) from the nearest land. What country is closest to them?
16. Who wrote the 19th century "Castle of Otranto", seen as the first gothic horror novel?
17. What is the Solid project, led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, designed to do?
18. What does the Water Festival mark in Burma/Myanmar?
19. In the film "Rocky Balboa", what was the outcome of his last fight?
20. When an electron in a higher-than-normal orbit falls back to its normal orbit, what is one of the results?
21. Which of these is an award-winning film about a literary critic, author and Oxford professor, the celebrated author to whom he was married, and their last years together as her dementia takes her?
22. Which of these is a comic book character who, born James Howlett in the 1880s and known as Logan, is a mutant, possessing keen senses, enhanced physical capabilities, retracting bone claws, and an ability to quickly recover from virtually any injury or sickness?
23. What song was adopted by the US Civil Rights movement in the 1960s?
24. What is the name for a poem of 14 lines that first appeared when written by Giacomo da Lentini in 1220, for which various rhyme schemes were developed?
25. Under what label was the first album released in 1998 by the newly renamed group Destiny's Child?
26. The America's Cup trophy was held by America from 1852 until 1983 when the Cup was won by which challenger?
27. In 2011 the capture and killing of Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi changed the political landscape in which country?
28. What is the name of the revised version of the game Cluedo, with changes to board, gameplay and characters, created in 2008?
29. Where is a sepal found?
30. What is the subject of the collection of 12 archaic Greek poems known as The Epic Cycle?
31. Which of these states of the USA is the largest wheat producer?
32. In her "Adventures in Wonderland", Alice said which of these phrases frequently?
33. The inability or near inability in colour blindness to differentiate between some colours is, in the most common form of it, between red and which other colour?
34. The River Tiber runs through which capital city?
35. Which organisation, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, was established as an agency of the League of Nations in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and became a specialised agency of the United Nations after the demise of the League in 1946?
36. Kanukai Jackson represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games at what sport?
37. What are IFC, Epix, HBO and AMC?
38. Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter starred in what 1999 film where a large part of the action concerns an expanding group of people who stage fights?
39. When Metro Pictures took over two other companies to form MGM, MGM adopted the former Goldwyn mascot "Leo the Lion" and what Goldwyn corporate motto?
40. When was the first FIA Formula E championship held?
41. Why did the Roslin Institute in Scotland become known world-wide in 1996?
42. The Quintette du Hot Club de France, one of the earliest and most significant continental groups of their kind in Europe and active from 1934 to 1948, was noted for what type of music?
43. Vila Rica, now Ouro Preto, in the large eastern inland state of Minas Gerais in Brazil was the focal point of what in the 18th century?
44. Charcoal production requires burning of wood in conditions with substantially reduced what?
45. Which area was declared a "free territory" in 1947 and administered by the US, UK and Yugoslavia until 1954 when it was partitioned between Italy and Yugoslavia?
46. What nickname was given to Mary Mallon, who infected a known 53 people working as a cook in New York and, in 1907, was the first healthy typhoid carrier to be identified?
47. Which of these is an English artist who became famous for his humorous drawings, especially of machines and other contraptions?
48. Which of these is not one of the four Teletubbies?
49. Beatrix Potter created a character called Jemima who?
50. Who are Anne Valerie Hash, Stephanie Rolland, Alexis Mabille, Rebecca Taylor, Marc Jacobs and John Galliano?
51. What military strategy involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while passing through an area, first used by the Scythians against King Darius the Great of Persia around 500 BCE, and known for its use by both sides when Germany attacked and then retreated from the USSR in World War II?
52. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are within the realm of which European nation?
53. Which of these is not an alternative name for a wolverine?
54. In mid 1949, barely 4 years after the end of World War II, the UK's Ealing Studios released the comedies "Passport to Pimlico", "Whisky Galore!" and which other film (included in 2005 in Time's list of the top 100 films since 1923)?
55. Who created the characters of Tom Wingfield, Blanche Dubois, Big Daddy Pollitt and T Lawrence Shannon?
56. A 1993 film starring Tom Hanks was "Sleepless in ..... '' where?
57. What is the motto of the Invictus Games?
58. How were Plรกcido Domingo, Josรฉ Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti known collectively?
59. "Facebook" was launched in what year?
60. Parametricism is a tool and style within which of these fields?
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