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General Knowledge Quiz 180 (60 MCQs)

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1. Robert Ludlum created which of these characters?
2. "I like work:it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours" is a quote from which book?
3. What is the most usual sight across the steppes of Central Asia?
4. Which of these novelists was born in Australia?
5. Which company, in 2015, launched its first self-produced film on its streaming online service?
6. The budgerigar is native to which country?
7. In 2010 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, who beat England's Jonny Wilkinson's record for scoring 1178 points in test match rugby?
8. Which of these is a venomous snake?
9. Who is the main character in a thinly veiled allegory, written while its author was in prison, released in 1678, and still in print?
10. What acid is found in tea?
11. As what were the first Paralympic Games originally known?
12. Which of these is an instrument for recording electrical discharges associated with mental activity?
13. What caused the death of American professional ice hockey forward Adam Johnson during a match in 2023?
14. What is the Spanish equivalent of the word "mister" ?
15. Of what were He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan, Yang Yilin and Deng Linlin accused at the 2008 Olympic Games?
16. What long-running US TV series from the 1980s returned in June 2012, after a 21 year break?
17. Alidade, for example, a rotary dial for angular positioning on an astrolabe, is a term borrowed from which language?
18. Who began as a Broadway actor, made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and had lead roles in "The Grapes of Wrath", "The Ox-Bow Incident", "Mister Roberts" and "12 Angry Men" ?
19. Which of these historic buildings is in Dublin?
20. Windsurfing equipment includes ..... ?
21. In "Through the Looking Glass", Alice uses a mirror to read which poem?
22. What does antepenultimate mean?
23. Which of these is a nickname that is often given to the flag of the USA?
24. The main characters in James Goldman's play "The Lion in Winter" are Henry II, his sons John, Geoffrey & Richard, his mistress Alais Capet, and which other?
25. What was the first film made especially as a musical comedy, which included the songs "The Wedding of the Painted Doll" and "You Were Made For Me", by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed?
26. The large, white, wood-eating larvae of the cossid moth have been a staple food for which of these peoples?
27. What is another name for the throw, or toe, line in a darts game?
28. The numbers 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888 and 999 are all multiples of what number?
29. In the USA which birds are reportedly most often involved with aircraft in bird strike?
30. By what name is Siddhartha Gautama better known?
31. The first commercial (non-state) flights to carry a civilian to the edge of space happened in which year?
32. What is panela or gur made from?
33. What architectural term was applied by the Romans to any public building built in a rectangle twice as long as it was broad with an internal 2 storied colonnade?
34. Frederick III of Swabia, elected king of Germany in 1152 CE as Frederick I, crowned Holy Roman Emperor and King of Italy in 1155, and extending empire over much of Europe, was popularly known as what?
35. Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey were in which politically incorrect (at least on the surface) comedy UK TV series 1992 to 1997?
36. Apart from a board marked in squares what do the players of the strategy game, Go, need to play a game?
37. What does the O J stand for in O J Simpson?
38. Which of these was Prime Minister of Great Britain?
39. The British conquest of which country began in 1824 in response to its attempt to invade India, and from 1886 to 1937 was administered as a province of British India when it became a separate, self-governing colony?
40. What phrase is applied to people temporarily in charge of a child?
41. Before 2019 what was Le Grand K?
42. What famous and still surviving structure was built in Rome by the Emperors Vespasian and, later, Titus between about 70 and 80 CE?
43. In World War I, the troops of New Zealand and what other country were formed into a single Army Corps called ANZACs?
44. Which of these is a British TV series (which has the alternative title of "MI-5") that follows the work of a group of intelligence officers based at their Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid?
45. Which space telescope was carried into orbit by a space shuttle in April 1990?
46. Which of these was a famous American photographer who worked between the 1960s and the 1980s photographing statuesque male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and highly formal portraits of artists and celebrities?
47. Edward Somerset, Denis Papin, Thomas Newcomen and James Watt are known for work in relation to what?
48. The comment "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor" is ascribed to which writer?
49. Until 2004, when the International Judging System (IJS) (informally called the "Code of Points") was introduced, what was the highest score a judge could award in figure skating for each of the "free skate" and the "short" programmes?
50. Who was the first person to be officially designated Prime Minister in Britain?
51. Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy lead the world rankings in early 2016 in what sport?
52. Which organisation runs the undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, that is known as "The Academy" ?
53. Who was the first British monarch to visit the United States of America?
54. Which of these comes closest to the meaning of the French phrase "Joie de vivre" ?
55. Acccording to the English nursery rhyme, what did little Jack Horner pull out of a pie?
56. What is or are "Stockman's Dogs" ?
57. Which of these, normally encountered as a gas with a characteristic pungent odour, contributes significantly to the nutritional needs of terrestrial organisms by serving as a precursor to foodstuffs and fertilisers?
58. What most immediately encouraged the 1497 reform of the Spanish monetary system, in which the maravedi as the main unit was dropped in favour of the solid silver peso de ocho (piece of eight)?
59. Of the 26 times that the 100 metres has been included in the Olympic Games to 2008, which country has won the most gold medals (16)?
60. Squared gives what result?
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