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General Knowledge Quiz 176 (60 MCQs)

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1. What causes a screeching sound when a live microphone is put too close to a speaker?
2. Which bandleader was at the top of the Billboard "Best Sellers in Stores" chart from 29 November 1941 to 2 May 1942 (except for one week) with four different tunes?
3. If a person or animal is moving very fast they could be described as "going at a fair ..... "?
4. Which group had a 1989 hit with "The Living Years" ?
5. George W Bush was the second President of the USA whose father was also a President. Who was the first?
6. The trophy for the winner of the Australian Open Tennis Men's Singles is named after which champion?
7. Where does the Yellow River have its source?
8. After Jack and Jill had gone up the hill and Jack had had an accident, what was his injured part wrapped in?
9. Who plays Mark Sloan in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy" ?
10. Which of these is the largest in area?
11. What is the Roman military formation called the Testudo named after?
12. Which is one matter for which Anne, Duchess of Brittany, (1477-1514), is remembered?
13. Which company, founded in 1950, was the world's first independent credit card company?
14. Singha, Tiger and Kingfisher are Asian brands of what product?
15. In a TV series, who lived in the town of Bedrock?
16. Which of these people was once the Bishop of Cape Town?
17. Where was the saz style prominent in art, textiles and other media?
18. Which Apollo mission was the first to land on the moon?
19. Schwann cells, or neurilemma, react with neuron axons to form what kind of sheath round the axons?
20. A boar is what type of creature?
21. Where is Mozart's 1787 opera "Don Giovanni" set?
22. Which town and Inca archaeological site in southern Peru, northwest of the city of Cusco, briefly served as a stronghold for a centre of the Inca resistance to the Spanish conquest?
23. Which English cricket captain had a well-publicised row with Pakistani umpire Shakoor Rana in Faisalabad in 1987?
24. The parliament of which country has met at the Binnenhof since 1464?
25. What organisation was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1917, 1944 and 1963?
26. When was the 250cc class motorcycle replaced by the new Moto2 600 cc four-stroke class in the FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix?
27. In Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" the Barrister dreams he sees a Snark defending a case where the defendant was what or who?
28. What is the name for a loose mock-biographical quatrain such as "When Alexander Pope / Accidentally trod on the soap / And came down on the back of his head / Never mind what he said" ?
29. Which of these people was, according to several early sources, the second Pope?
30. What shape ball is used in the sport of kabaddi?
31. What is a Pyrrhic victory?
32. Where is the World Golf Hall of Fame located?
33. What was the name of Julius Caesar's last wife?
34. Trig stations are installed on the highest point of a hill or mountain for what?
35. When in trouble, which of these characters might reach for a can of Duff?
36. Which of these is a fully independent country?
37. After leading a rebel army for 20 years, Ahmed Sukarno was elected the first president of which country after it was granted independence in 1949?
38. Which cold, low-salinity ocean current flows north-westward along the west coast of South America from the southern tip of Chile to northern Peru and can extend 1, 000 kilometers (620 miles) offshore?
39. In 1815 the Congress of Vienna created United Netherlands, but in 1830 the restive south split off again to form what?
40. What is the block-chain-enabled NFT used for in transactions concerning digital material?
41. What is a species in the legume family, native to North and South America, an annual herbaceous plant growing 30 to 50 cm (1 to 1 1/2 feet) tall?
42. Professional sportsperson Leticia Bufoni has been ranked the #1 women in her field by the World governing body in the sport; what field is that?
43. The Ishtar Gate, constructed around 575BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II, was a gate to which city?
44. Which country voted in November 2012 to work to become the 51st state of the USA?
45. Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904) used folk material in his music drawn from his homeland where?
46. Which Summer Olympics was the first to exclude South Africa?
47. The annual BBC Sports Personality award was first given in 1954 and as at 2020 includes how many other categories?
48. Some rivers do not flow to the sea, but empty instead into inland sinks or aquifers, or dry up or similar. Some of these are the Okavango, the Humboldt, the Kern, the Chu and ..... ?
49. After 2007, which boat class was no longer run as a World Rowing Championship event?
50. Who played the character of Alex P. Keaton in all seven series of a 1980s sitcom?
51. How many nouns are there in the following sentence: "Andrew gave his son a toy to play with" ?
52. Someone who is obstreperous is what?
53. In 2011 three sports were accepted for inclusion in the 2014 Winter Olympics; these were Ski slopestyle, Snowboard slopestyle, and what other?
54. What animal makes its home in a "drey" ?
55. Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, USA, saw what accident on 20 March, 1979?
56. Cuba first participated in the modern Olympic Games in 1900 but then missed the Games from 1908 to 1920, and again in 1932 and 1936. Since the 1948 Games when it again took part how many Games has Cuba missed or boycotted?
57. Who is the patron saint of Scotland?
58. What is the English borough and market town on the River Otter in Devonshire, famous for lace making?
59. The women's singles final of the US Open Tennis Championships in 2021 was contested by two teenage athletes. Top teenage players were not uncommon earlier in the US Open's 141 year history, but when was the last women's teenage final before 2021?
60. Who was found guilty of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968?
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