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General Knowledge Quiz 178 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which British playwright won the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature?
2. What was the name of the British Royal Yacht that entered service in 1953 and decommissioned on 11 December 1997?
3. Who is the eponymous absent-minded professor who features in a series of books by British author Norman Hunter in the 1930s and then 1970-83?
4. Who was the world chess champion from 1969 to 1972?
5. What did the Chinese historical term Huaxia originally embody?
6. The Wimbledon tennis championships are held in which city?
7. Which 2006 film about a dystopian future uses the music "Fragments of a Prayer" as a recurring motif?
8. How often does the number "1" occur in the sequence from 1 to 100 inclusive?
9. At what time of day does the church service called vespers take place?
10. Which river begins in the Rocky Mountains in south-west Colorado, crosses New Mexico and forms the border between Mexico and the USA before reaching the Gulf of Mexico?
11. Which wedding anniversary is "coral" ?
12. What was the name of the Flintstones' pet?
13. Which movie star was found dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California on 5 August 1962?
14. Who led the expedition that discovered The Titanic on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean?
15. What ancient form of measurement was represented by the length of the forearm from the elbow to the middle fingertip?
16. What was the common name of the Volkswagen Type 14, a 2+2 sold from 1955 to 1974 in coupe and convertible bodystyles, which was then the car most imported to the USA?
17. When was Nicolae Ceauศ™escu, at the time Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and Head of State in Romania, deposed and later shot?
18. Time magazine was founded in 1923 by whom?
19. Which was the last Monty Python film to include all six Pythons?
20. What device enables a player to use the same chord shapes on a guitar to be played a number of frets higher to raise the key uniformly?
21. SoHo for New Yorkers is what kind of area?
22. The names Corbett and Brambell are most associated with which well-known UK TV series?
23. The first Academy Award winner to refuse to accept their Oscar was Dudley Nichols in 1935. Why did he refuse?
24. Marlborough and Hawke's Bay are wine producing regions of where?
25. Which US TV series (2008-13) had immense audience as well as critical acclaim (and awards, e.g. two of its main actors won Emmy Awards in multiple years) and figures in the Guinness Book of Records?
26. Strictly speaking what would Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh's name lead one to expect?
27. Who was the first US president to succeed to the Presidency upon the assassination of his predecessor and the first US President to be impeached?
28. What is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet?
29. In what country, with considerable mineral and coal wealth and so abundantly fertile it has been described as a jewel of Africa, did the inflation rate during 2008 skyrocket to 231, 150, 888.87%?
30. Why did Netflix announce in January 2019 that it would shoot its series "OBX" in South Carolina instead of North Carolina?
31. "By Jeeves", a musical first performed in 1996, substantially rewritten from their work "Jeeves" in 1975, was composed by whom with whose book and lyrics?
32. On which ship did Israel launch an unprovoked attack during the height of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War in 1967?
33. In which century was the Suez Canal opened?
34. What was the name of the operation whereby 1, 373 U.S. citizens and 5, 595 Vietnamese and foreign nationals were evacuated from the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon on 29 and 30 April 1975?
35. What sign of the zodiac is represented by a bull?
36. When North Korea participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics it agreed to march with South Korea in the opening ceremony, but for the Paralympics it did not. What was the reason?
37. A film released in 2000 starring Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson tells the life story of which painter?
38. Which of these was an American astronomer?
39. Which team won the Hockey World Cup the most times between 2000 and 2010?
40. Which applies to Danish-Australian golf professional Mianne Bagger?
41. Seoul in South Korea is closer to which of these?
42. The sausage tree, Kigelia or Worsboom is native to which continent?
43. Donna Summer was popular in what genre of music?
44. How did Jeff Stone, at the time Gilooly, figure in the 1994 Winter Olympic Games?
45. Whose song begins with the lyrics "I wanna hold em' like they do in Texas Plays, Fold em' let em' hit me raise it baby stay with me, Luck and intuition play the cards with Spades to start, And after he's been hooked I'll play the one that's on his heart" ?
46. What is the nationality of the football player Ronaldinho?
47. "Seeds of Change:Planting a Path to Peace" is a graphic biography of Kenyan scientist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman and the first what to win a Nobel Peace Prize (in 2004)?
48. Ted Sorensen was an advisor, lawyer and writer, best known as special counsel and adviser, speechwriter and alter ego to which US president, whom he called his "intellectual blood bank" ?
49. The first Chinese round of what international series was first held in 2004, in Shanghai?
50. What is the next in the series:Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic ..... ?
51. In 2006, Michelle Bachelet became the first female president of which country?
52. What group began life as Linda Ronstadt's backing band?
53. The Tagus River runs through which capital city?
54. Where were the Bee Gees born?
55. Codenamed "Fiona", what project was developed from 2004 to eventual release in 2007?
56. In soccer, what coloured card is used to order a player off the field?
57. St Paul is said to have described himself as "a citizen of no mean city" . Which of these best describes his way of speaking?
58. Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman Zhang Heng (78-139 CE) invented a number of tools; which of these was one?
59. What draws about 2 million migratory and nesting birds each year to the alkaline and highly saline Lake Mono in California?
60. What is or are characteristics of a squid?
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