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General Knowledge Quiz 177 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the curve which surface tension causes in the surface of a liquid close to an object or container?
2. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded what computer application?
3. What is the international movement, started in 2008, aiming to promote exploring, understanding threats to, and conserving the world's natural wonders?
4. Which of these was a guitarist, singer and composer who died in September 1970, in Notting Hill, London, after drinking red wine and taking sleeping pills?
5. What, among many other things, did the HMS Challenger expedition of 1872-76 discover?
6. According to a report by the organisation called "Transparency International", what was the most corrupt country in the world in 2009?
7. After being called various names including the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Congo-Léopoldville, what was the (now) Democratic Republic of the Congo known as?
8. If you herald something you do what?
9. What workers make up the majority of the Teamsters Union in the USA?
10. Which state donated the land occupied by the US capital city, Washington, District of Columbia?
11. There are 22 of which of these to the measure known as a chain?
12. Hadrian's Wall, built following 122 AD, stretches for 73 miles from Solway Firth to where?
13. The group "Smile", formed in 1968 by Roger Taylor, Tim Staffel and Brian May, changed their name to what after Tim Staffel was replaced as vocalist?
14. "Pollywog" is another name for what?
15. In 1498, Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach which area by sea?
16. What position did Liechtenstein take during World War II?
17. In 1888 in London, 1400 women, most of them teenagers and some as young as 12, staged a sustained strike for better working conditions at what factory?
18. A celebration held annually during the last full week of July in Cheyenne, Wyoming, includes what as its main events?
19. In 1984, who had a hit single singing about how he "got my first real six-string, bought it at the five-and-dime, played 'til my fingers bled. It was summer of '69" ?
20. Ding Junhui is a star in which sport?
21. What note does an orchestra tune to?
22. In "Blade Runner 2049" (2017) a number of people reprised their original roles in "Blade Runner" (1982); this included Harrison Ford, Edward James Olmos and Sean Young, plus who else?
23. Trophies of the same name were awarded to the champions of Major League Baseball, the International Hockey League's coach of the year from 1985 to 2001 and the Canadian Hockey League's coach of the year from 1993 to 2001. What is the name of these trophies?
24. What compete at the Burghley Trials, Badminton, the Rolex Kentucky Three Day, the Adelaide Trials, the Luhmühlen Trials and the Étoiles de Pau?
25. Franklin Roosevelt was fairly fluent in which languages other than English?
26. Unusually for vertebrates, hagfish and lampreys have no what?
27. Which of these is a meaning of bare?
28. Luigi and Lucia Galeazzi Galvani are credited with the first studies in what, published in 1791?
29. In 330 AD, Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome, moved the capital from Rome to where?
30. Gambia is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and what other country or countries?
31. What is the name of the chemical that naturally occurs in sheep's wool?
32. What are buckyballs?
33. Who created the character of Roderick Alleyn?
34. What is the capital of Namibia?
35. Which boxer was filmed striking a gong, that was used as an introduction to films from the J Arthur Rank studios?
36. What is a term for an important person?
37. Which Scottish author was born in 1850, married Mrs. Osbourne in 1880, settled on an estate called Vailima in 1889, and died of tuberculosis in 1894?
38. What was the nationality of the composer of the three piano pieces called "Gymnopédies" ?
39. What playwright wrote many of his plays for the Stephen Joseph Company in Scarborough, UK?
40. The rising young star, lead in the 'Hunger Games" series, is who?
41. Which voice on the Simpsons is provided by Nancy Cartwright?
42. What marks a 40th wedding anniversary?
43. Which of these is a variety of daisy?
44. What is the name for the British manufacturing district that includes Birmingham, Wolverhampton, West Bromich, Dudley, Smethwick and Walsall?
45. Which state of the USA has the longest border with Canada?
46. "Napier's bones", a manually-operated device for calculating products and quotients of numbers, was developed by what 16th century scientist?
47. Which branch of mathematics was named after the Latin for "small pebble" ?
48. French aviator Louis Bleriot was the first to do what in an aeroplane on 25 July 1909?
49. Which of these nations has officially adopted the International System of Units as its primary system of measurement?
50. Where are Yell, Unst and Fetlar?
51. On which continent is Suriname?
52. What free trade area that came into effect on 1 January 2010 was the largest at the time in terms of population and third largest in terms of volume?
53. The Maya of the Yucatán in central America united in 987 in an alliance known as the League of what?
54. Which of these composers was an American whose early works include an opera, premièred in 1984, sung in Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, and Ancient Egyptian?
55. What language did the playwright Henrik Ibsen write his plays in?
56. What do the Australian native animals the Wombat and the spiny horned Thorny Devil (or Dragon), have in common?
57. What is the longest and widest single nerve in the human body?
58. In the British sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous", what is the name of Edina's daughter?
59. Which of these works with the fictional Crime Scene Investigation division in New York?
60. What distance does the Laser Run, competed as part of a pentathlon, cover?
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