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General Knowledge Quiz 18 (60 MCQs)

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1. The film "O21" (2014) is made under the banner of what country?
2. Which country won the Men's World Championship in softball the most times between 1996 and 2004?
3. What breed of dog was the subject of the 1992 film "Beethoven" ?
4. As part of a long career on stage, writing songs (recorded by Herman's Hermits, Adam Faith, Billy Fury) and musicals, and in TV and film working with Franco Zeffirelli, Bob Hoskins and Patrick Stewart, the actor Trevor Peacock stars in what UK TV series?
5. Which of the following places has 5 bridges in the city?
6. What is the name for a territory administered by two or more states?
7. In 1995, what band was the first artist to receive as many as 4 BRIT (British Record Industry Trust) awards in the same year?
8. According to the Bible story, what happened to Daniel when he was cast into the lion's den?
9. Which is the largest working water wheel in the world?
10. What vitamin is niacin?
11. Who designed the yellow sheath dress with matching coat worn by Michelle Obama at Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009?
12. Which autonomous grouping of islands in the Caribbean was dissolved on 10 October 2010?
13. What airline, with a fleet of 55 aircraft, the flag carrier of Poland, was established in 1929, and is one of the world's oldest airlines still in operation?
14. What anthem was played at the 2018 Winter Olympics for Russian medal winners?
15. Which mythical figure carries a scythe?
16. In 1456 a trial was held in Rouen in France, to rehabilitate whom?
17. Whose first time dancing experience was in the film "Singin' in the Rain" ?
18. Sauerkraut is made with which of these?
19. What is a yardstick used in economics?
20. What famous picture was stolen from its frame in the Louvre in 1911, was recovered in Florence and returned in 1913?
21. The War of the Pacific 1879-1883 was fought where?
22. Who recited the poem "The Gift Outright" at John F Kennedy's inauguration as president of the USA in 1961?
23. Usually, how many feet should one stand away from an eye chart?
24. Which Italian-American tenor and Hollywood movie star of the late 1940s and 1950s was called "the greatest voice of the twentieth century" by Arturo Toscanini and was referred to as the "New Caruso, " and a "singing Clark Gable" ?
25. What is the last name of "Ellen" ?
26. The first what was sent from "L'Illustration", Paris, to the London "Daily Mirror" on 8 November 1907?
27. Following work in 2016 on observations in Hubble's Ultra Deep Field how many galaxies are there estimated to be in the known universe?
28. Who wrote the play "The Cocktail Hour", a US comedy exploring the world of upper-class families in the Northeast set in an apartment in the 1970s, and promised his parents it would not be produced in his hometown during their lifetimes because "the details are so close to home" ?
29. Which of these made his fortune from shipping?
30. Which is the largest of the flightless birds still living?
31. In Raumschach 3-D chess which piece moves through the six faces of a cube in any rank, file, or column?
32. The celebrated and wealthy Spartan, Euryleonis, was known for her prowess as a what?
33. Which is the object in the sentence "I solve puzzles" ?
34. Who was the founder of the Christian Science movement?
35. Which structure of cantilever design, designed by Sir W. M. Arrol, was begun in 1883 and opened in 1890?
36. Why does the Archbishop of York sign himself "Ebor" ?
37. What is the inner core of the Earth believed to consist of?
38. Which game is played between two teams of up to sixteen players, eleven of whom are permitted to be on the pitch at any one time, on a field 91.40m by 55m (100 by 60 yards)?
39. What Championship is a counterpart in the Southern Hemisphere of the Five, now Six, Nations Championship in the Northern Hemisphere?
40. In Scotland, porridge is traditionally made with what?
41. Which of these is a disease affecting poultry?
42. What is the engineering term for the slope of a structure, slightly out of the vertical?
43. The song "My Kind Of Town", written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen in 1964, was about which city?
44. What name was given to teenage boys who wore drainpipe trousers and liked rock and roll in 1950s Britain?
45. Which of these is a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature?
46. Which 1962 American psychological espionage thriller was directed and produced by John Frankenheimer and starred Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury, with Janet Leigh, Henry Silva, and James Gregory?
47. Alan Bates played an escaped convict who was mistaken for the son of God in which 1961 film?
48. At which event, in 2010, was Francesca Schiavone the first Italian woman to win a tennis Grand Slam event in singles?
49. In which country is the city of Wells?
50. Which of these countries is landlocked?
51. What was the predecessor to the computer game Riven?
52. In what field is the American, Philip Glass, well known?
53. The term "New England" covers the US states of Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island and which other state?
54. Someone who deprives themselves of sleep is said to be "burning the ..... what ..... at both ends" ?
55. In 1983, the highest TV audience in the USA was set by the last episode of "M*A*S*H" . What programme broke that record?
56. In 1937 the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Simpson were married in which country?
57. In 1713 Charles XII, King of Sweden, created what position to ensure that public officials acted in accordance with the law and discharged their duties satisfactorily, and could initiate legal proceedings against them for dereliction of duty?
58. When the Mensheviks were a political force how were their opposition known?
59. What Irish dramatist, whose first produced play was "Widowers' Houses" in 1892, won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926?
60. What does pemmican consist of?
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