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General Knowledge Quiz 175 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which is a 1959 book by Nobel Prize-winning German author Günter Grass?
2. Which of these Mexican cities is closest to the Gulf of Mexico?
3. What is a kittiwake?
4. What is the overtly female version of the "Mr. Men" series?
5. Which of these people is a poet?
6. What was the last battle where a British monarch led troops into battle?
7. What does the "B" stand for in the name of the computer language called "BASIC" ?
8. In geological terms, what are Rodinia and Pannotia?
9. Which country launched the space station "Skylab" in 1973?
10. Shallots and scallions are types of what?
11. Under the reign of what monarch were the bugle calls used in the daily routines of the British army officially published?
12. Who are the central figures of John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men" ?
13. Who plays high school student Alex Truelove in the 2018 Netflix film "Alex Strangelove" ?
14. Who personifies the USA?
15. In which Canadian province, in the 2006 census, was English the mother tongue of 79.99% of the population, followed by Chinese languages (3.02%), German (2.62%), French (1.90%), Punjabi (1.13%), Tagalog (0.92%) and Ukrainian (0.91%), with the most common aboriginal language being Cree (0.53%)?
16. Leonid Brezhnev led the Soviet Union as General Secretary then as Chairman of the Presidium, the longest term as leader since Josef Stalin; who was his immediate successor?
17. The English version of "The Magic Roundabout", a children's television programme created in France was broadcast from 18 October 1965 to January 1977. It was narrated by the father of which actress?
18. In the original Star Trek TV series which aired in the USA from 1966 to 1969, who played "Scotty" ?
19. In addition to its meaning in chemical terms, what is wolfram?
20. The John F. Kennedy International Airport is located in what American city?
21. What occurs when a ray of light meets an obstacle such as a fine wire?
22. What does geology describe?
23. What is sargassum?
24. In anatomy, what word refers to a difference in coloration, usually of the iris but also of hair or skin?
25. What was stolen from Stanley Gibbons' stamp company's exhibition in the Westminster Central Hall on Sunday 20 March 1966, and found by David Corbett's dog Pickles on March 27 under the hedge of Corbett's house?
26. Reputedly, when Joshua blew a trumpet, the walls of which city came tumbling down?
27. Burial mounds (kurgans) of the ancient people known as the Scythians have been excavated in what area?
28. What is the name for what is commonly known as aspirin?
29. A climbing current account deficit and an increasingly strong dollar prompted the US to initiate what international agreement in November 1985?
30. What do these people have in common:Fournier, Bodoni, Gill and Baskerville?
31. Which political figure's assassination was among the events which precipitated World War I?
32. The 1987 record "La Bamba" was by which artist?
33. What is the name of the mathematical function which can be shown to grow faster asymptotically than any computable function?
34. In 2001, American Dennis Tito was the first person to do what?
35. Which rock musical includes the songs "Skid Row (Downtown)", "Somewhere That's Green", and "Suddenly, Seymour" ?
36. What is the board game in which progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions?
37. Which of these was a famous film star 1947 until her death in 1962?
38. As what is the Kamoshika, or Serow, classed?
39. During World War II, where was the HQ of the English code cracking unit that was set up to decipher the output from the "Enigma" machine?
40. In beach volleyball and indoor volleyball, what is the maximum number of contacts that a team can have with the ball before it crosses the net?
41. Where are almost the only mountainous areas near the African coast of the Red Sea?
42. Which of these is a stage musical based on an Australian novel by Colleen McCullough?
43. What is "UDFy-38135539" which was calculated in October 2010 to be 13 billion light years away?
44. In 1957 Luxembourg, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy joined together to form what?
45. What is another name for Cro-Magnon man?
46. Who created the characters of Willy Loman, Joe Keller and Eddie Carbone?
47. Osman founded which empire?
48. When the Ashmolean opened in Oxford in 1683, it was one of Great Britain's first what?
49. Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were charged in November 2021 with crimes committed when they were Presidents of two of football's governing bodies in what year?
50. Fort Worth is closest to which other Texas city?
51. Who will be the defending champions in the FIP World Polo Championships in 2015?
52. What Christian church observes The Sabbath on Saturday?
53. Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong were the first two Prime Ministers of which country?
54. Tenzing Norgay was famous for his activities in what field?
55. Where was the body of Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker dubbed "God's Banker" by the press, found by a passing postman on 18 June 1982?
56. Who live in a seraglio?
57. Throat-singing, where a singer produces two or more notes simultaneously, is used mostly in which areas?
58. What is the title of the 1993 dark comedy film directed by Jonathan Wacks, written by Chuck Hughes and starring Steve Buscemi, Miriam Margolyes, and Ned Beatty?
59. Who have lived for 20, 000 years as hunter-gatherers, whose territory spans parts of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola, centred on a large arid to semi-arid sandy area?
60. In which sport can you catch a crab?
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