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General Knowledge Quiz 183 (60 MCQs)

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1. What was Ellis Island, in New York harbour, used for from 1892 to 1954?
2. What is a genus of 422 species of flowering annual, biennial, and perennial plants commonly known as the cranesbills?
3. What is another name for pain in one or more nerves?
4. Which of these islands is in the Atlantic Ocean?
5. How many seconds are there in an hour?
6. Which of these is the smallest number?
7. What colour are copper sulphate crystals?
8. In 300 CE, the country now known as Spain was part of which empire?
9. Which old London market for cloth goods, founded by a charter from Henry I in 1133 and held annually at Smithfield and then Islington, was abolished in 1855 due to the disorderly rabble?
10. In 1963, US President Kennedy sanctioned a coup d'état in which country to overthrow Ngo Dinh Diem, the Roman Catholic President, by his own army generals?
11. Which of these is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey, formed in 1983 with a singer, guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, bassist Alec John Such and drummer Tico Torres?
12. Which were the first Olympics to be held in Japan?
13. Wharton's Jelly is the gelatinous liquid found where?
14. Which company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 4 April 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for a new microcomputer, the Altair 8800?
15. Where is 0 degrees latitude and 0 degrees longitude?
16. Who was the world snooker champion in 1998, 2007, 2009, and 2011?
17. The word for a territory under British rule that was not part of Great Britain itself was "colony" or "Crown colony" , until the British Nationality Act 1981 which called each one a "British-Dependent Territory" . What name are most of them known by since?
18. St Peter's, Chambly, Welland, Sault-Ste-Marie and Lachine are ..... ?
19. On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian-Serb student and member of Young Bosnia, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia, which led to the start of which war?
20. Netflix is best known for what?
21. "Ratatouille the Musical" (also known as "Remy The Ratatouille", or "Ratatousical") is what?
22. In 1927 one of the players involved in a USA scandal 8 years earlier alleged that 1917 games were "thrown by Detroit in exchange for money, and that Chicago had thrown three games in 1919 as a kind of belated thank you" " . What was the sport?
23. "And death shall have no dominion" is a poem by which of these?
24. Which film features a large green, earwax-eating "hero" ?
25. Which famous American bodybuilder had the advertising slogan "You too can have a body like mine" ?
26. Which 74 year old singer performed most of his 2009 world tour in a dark suit, topped with a black fedora?
27. What part did Josiah Wedgwood, of the famous English pottery, play in the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of the Species?
28. When someone in Davis Guggenheim's team is reported to have called his film, "An Inconvenient Truth", just prior to its release in 2006 a "feathered fish" what was meant?
29. By what name is English singer-songwriter, Ms A. L. B. Adkins MBE, better known?
30. The pull of gravity on the earth is how many more times stronger than that on the moon?
31. Sherpas and Gurkhas are native to which country?
32. Who watched his daughter win her first professional boxing bout in October 1999?
33. In 2021 Scarlett Johansson and Walt Disney Films settled a lawsuit over the release of what film?
34. The valet to Inspector Clouseau, Cato (originally Kato) Fong, in the "Pink Panther" series of films was scripted as an expert in martial arts; what was his speciality?
35. In what mountain range are the four Presidential heads in Mt Rushmore National Memorial carved?
36. Which pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV, one of the "little princes in the Tower" who, legend has it, was executed by Richard III?
37. Which of these was a singer who died at the Landmark Motor Hotel, Los Angeles, officially from an overdose of heroin, possibly combined with the effects of alcohol?
38. What is claimed to be the fastest bird in level flight, (though its record is in dispute from supporters of the White-throated Needletail)?
39. What kind of beverage is "oolong" ?
40. Where was the sport called "Tossing the caber" developed?
41. The catastrophic disaster at a plant in Chernobyl in the Ukraine in April 1986 is described as what kind of accident?
42. Where does the beat, or accent, fall in a waltz-time bar of music?
43. "Handy" in its Middle English form of "hende" meant what?
44. Which president of the USA had previously been a film star?
45. Towards the end of which century CE did the Roman Empire start to disintegrate prior to separating into Western and Eastern Empires?
46. Which singer recorded "Unforgettable" in 1951, which his daughter, Natalie Cole, made into a duet with herself in 1991?
47. Who sang on the 1987 album "Famous Blue Raincoat", a tribute to Leonard Cohen, that contained the song "First We Take Manhattan" ?
48. What is an open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side, resembling the path of a projectile under the action of gravity?
49. What was the name of the scheme approved by U S Congress in 1948 for the long term financing of the reconstruction of Europe following World War II?
50. What does "URL" stand for in the internet?
51. Noisette chocolate tastes of what kind of nut?
52. What was the initial cause of a major nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, in March 2011?
53. Which of these cities does not have an obelisk popularly called "Cleopatra's Needle" ?
54. When was the first Great Reno Balloon Race held?
55. Louis B Meyer is associated with what activity?
56. Which country, after 500 years of Ottoman domination, became independent in 1912, adopted a republican form of government in 1920, became a kingdom in 1928, came under Italian control in 1939, became a Communist state after World War II, and is now a parliamentary democracy established under a constitution renewed in 1998?
57. What colour jersey are the winners of the three disciplines in the annual UCI Mountain Bike World Championships entitled to wear in events of the same discipline?
58. In terms of physics, what is nutation?
59. The 1983 film "Staying Alive" was the sequel to what film?
60. Who co-founded the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada, and then the American Federation of Labor which replaced it when it dissolved?
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