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General Knowledge Quiz 182 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of these trained to be a priest until opting for a different path?
2. What influential and enduring company did the 22 year old Paul Allen co-found in April 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA?
3. In the acronym NTSC, used in the television industry, what does the "S" stand for?
4. Which US TV series is set in the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital?
5. Where would barn doors, fresnels and gobos be found together?
6. On what continent is The Gambia?
7. Which of these is a golfing term?
8. Why did Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles delay their wedding by a day?
9. A halt in 1648 to what must have seemed at the time almost endless wars in Europe, is called what?
10. What currency is used in China?
11. Abyssinian, Balinese, British Shorthair, Birman, Bombay, Burmese, California Spangled, Devon Rex, Egyptian Mau, Himalayan, Japanese Bobtail and Javanese are all breeds of what?
12. For what event in 1215 is Runnymede, England, famous?
13. Which of these is not found on the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
14. The film The Philadelphia Story was made into which musical?
15. Who starred with Bette Davis in the 1962 film "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" ?
16. What does "REM" stand for?
17. How did Nigerian man Umar Farouk Abdulmutallah make world news on 25 December 2009?
18. In which country was the Althing, a legislative and judiciary parliament, founded in 930?
19. The 328 metre high Sky Tower is in which city?
20. He was a founding member, songwriter, and guitarist with the rock band Magic Alex, made his professional acting debut in 1992 in UK TV, and in TV has starred alongside Robbie Coltrane, Philip Glenister, David Tennant and Jim Broadbent. Who is he?
21. June Middleton, of Melbourne, Australia, who died aged 83 in 2009, was in the Guinness Book of Records for spending the most time in what?
22. Why is Harvard University named after John Harvard, a young clergyman from the London Borough of Southwark, England?
23. Score, in relation to an opera, means what?
24. Which actor and musician, born in 1935, won a scholarship to study organ at Magdalen College, Oxford?
25. What is the word for the apparent change in frequency of a vibration due to the relative change in position of the observer?
26. What type of animal is a gelada?
27. Sometimes called elephant or chinese chess, what is this game known as in the Asian Games?
28. "A Dictionary of the English Language", first published in 1755, becoming one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language, was by whom?
29. Tijuana is nearest to which of these places?
30. Canberra is the capital of which country?
31. What is essential for the sport known as errekorteak in Basque and recortes in Spanish?
32. What unit of work represents the work done to overcome a force of 1 dyne through a distance of 1 centimetre?
33. To rush in without thinking carefully enough beforehand would be ..... ?
34. The Cultural Revolution was a period of widespread social and political upheaval between 1966 and 1976, resulting in nation-wide chaos and economic disarray in which country?
35. In the 11th century China issued the first state-backed and printed what?
36. Which is the country closest to Haiti?
37. What is a Russian name for a type of savoury pancakes?
38. Which of these people is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in the UK, whose sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images?
39. In George Orwell's book "Animal Farm", "Boxer" was what kind of animal?
40. On the buttons of a tape, VCR or DVD player, what does the sign in the shape of a single right pointing arrow mean?
41. What is the main diet of the small mammal called an aardwolf?
42. The spiny leguminous plant called furze is also known as what?
43. Members of which Californian rock band formed the group known until 2001 as Kara's Flowers?
44. What name was given to a series of thirty evening radio speeches given by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 and 1944?
45. How is the traditional Lao musical instrument the khene, or khaen, played?
46. When did Maori arrive in New Zealand?
47. Why was wrestler Ara Abrahamian of Sweden disqualified by the IOC and stripped of his rejected bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
48. The initial parts of which London building were built as a fortress by the Normans, had additions to become a palace and then was used primarily as a prison?
49. In 2009 what company was established which developed into a global one for peer-to-peer ridesharing, taxi cab, food delivery, bicycle-sharing, and transportation network?
50. Which of these places is the furthest from the sea?
51. What term is used to describe the nesting place of colony forming seabirds, some seals and sea lions, and even some turtles?
52. Which Olympics were the ones where the IOC first operated drug use controls?
53. In which Olympics were refugees included specifically, under the Olympic flag and as a separate team?
54. What is a common name for the butterfly known as Vanessa cardui?
55. What is another name for a beekeeper?
56. What breed of dog was the film star "Lassie" ?
57. What nationality was the winner of the first Miss World contest?
58. What sport is the concern of the PGA?
59. In 2010 the American rock band "The Slants" was refused permission to do what?
60. What does the "I" stand for in "TIA", sometimes called a precursor of a stroke?
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