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General Knowledge Quiz 181 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which city is sited on the Absheron Peninsula which juts into the Caspian Sea?
2. What does tyndallisation usually affect?
3. To which areas is the Magellanic woodpecker native?
4. In 1928 Amelia Earhart received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for what?
5. Which of these is a long-necked water-cooling vessel of porous earthenware?
6. Which of these is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal proliferation of (usually white) blood cells?
7. What system, developed for military use, was made fully available to the public from midnight 1 May 2000 on the orders of US President Bill Clinton?
8. Who composed the jazz piece "In a Mist" (1927)?
9. Which of these is a stretch of water between Wales and Devon on the West coast of Britain?
10. "The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven" is spoken by which Shakespearean character?
11. According to the nursery rhyme, what did little Jack Horner pull out of his Christmas pie?
12. What did the "S" in American President Ulysses S. Grant's name stand for?
13. When was the first time the Paralympic Games were held in Russia?
14. What are Loo, Euchre, Rams, Hombre, and Maw?
15. What is the most noticeable reaction when sodium is put into water?
16. Bondi Beach is near which city?
17. How did Hannibal die in 183 BC?
18. What is the name for radiations of a wavelength longer than and immediately next to the visible spectrum?
19. What is the title extension of the 2020 film "Happy Happy Joy Joy" ?
20. In late middle English, when it was first used, what was the meaning of the word "jargon" ?
21. What was the name of the English parliament that restored Charles II as king in 1660?
22. At the 1988 Summer Olympics, Indonesia gained its first Olympic medal when the women's team won a silver medal in what?
23. The names of how many states of the USA both start and end with the letter "a" ?
24. What chess piece is also called a "castle" ?
25. When was the first award ceremony for the US's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held?
26. Who created the fictional detective Inspector Morse?
27. She slopped her dripper is an example of what?
28. Which of these is not one of the Railway Stations on a traditional English Monopoly board?
29. What English pop band, formed in Manchester in 1990 with Robbie Williams, Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen, achieved major success in the early to mid 1990s, split up in 1996, and in 2006 released the album "Beautiful World" ?
30. Until 2019 the mass which equals a kilogram was defined in the International System of Units by an object consisting of 90% what?
31. The miners affected by a 2012 strike and massacre in Marikana, South Africa, were workers from what type of mine?
32. Over the period 2010-2019 what was the average number of unprovoked and fatal shark attacks worldwide in a year?
33. Which of these is a burrowing insectivorous animal with small eyes and close fur?
34. What town in South Australia has served as a weapons-testing range since the 1950s, was the site of a detention facility for asylum seekers and refugees from 1999 to 2003, and was home to the Nurrungar satellite ground station until 1999?
35. If someone takes a person for a ride what could they be said to do?
36. What was the name of the house where William Wordsworth and his sister lived in Grasmere in the Lake District?
37. Who's leigh is a vehicle that will travel fastest on snow?
38. What word's original meaning was to do with the laying of granite chips on the ground and then making it into a hard and smooth surface using a roller?
39. Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, was launched when?
40. Why was Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town of 2, 000 abandoned from 1981 on and has been largely demolished?
41. What was the title of Gary Barlow's autobiography, released in 2006?
42. The refraction phenomenon known as "looming" can result in seeing what?
43. Who was given a personalised iPod by Barack Obama when he visited in April 2009?
44. Which is a sports scientist and biomechanist known for working with Evander Holyfield, Dianne DeNecochea, Jose Luiz Barbosa, the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Raiders professional football teams, as well as Team USA Volleyball?
45. What is the name of the British annual pop music awards, that are held in February each year?
46. What DVD region covers Australia and New Zealand?
47. Where was the Almohad Caliphate, from around 1120 to 1269?
48. Which country is divided into thirteen administrative districts (Lautém, Baucau, Viqueque, Manatuto, Dili, Aileu, Manufahi, Liquiçá, Ermera, Ainaro, Bobonaro, Cova Lima and Oecusse Ambeno), one of which is separated from the rest by part of Indonesia?
49. Cape Crozier is a small promontory on what tiny and very cold island?
50. Which of these is not part of the same family of German composers?
51. Which of these is a make of guitar?
52. Bernard Gui (1261-1331) was primarily well-known as a what?
53. How many books in the Bible's Old Testament are included in the Catholic version but not in the Protestant one?
54. About two thirds of Africa's active volcanoes follow roughly what line?
55. In music, which word means "lively" or "animated" ?
56. What is the venue for the first World Outdoor Youth Ball Hockey Championship held in August 2009?
57. Which of these has played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, Los Angeles Galaxy, A C Milan and England?
58. The Belgian organisation APOPO supplies a method of detecting tuberculosis and TNT in landmines. What is it?
59. What is a green ormer?
60. Which of these is an Early Modern English word for "bumblebee" ?
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