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General Knowledge Quiz 184 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which actress has a tattoo showing the co-ordinates of the birthplaces of her children?
2. The Caroline Norton court case highlighted the injustice of what British law?
3. In soil layers what is the zone above the phreatic zone?
4. What does the expression "e and oe" mean?
5. Designer Karl Lagerfeld is famous for carrying what as a fashion accessory?
6. A black widow is a type of what?
7. Which was the only team from Africa to survive the first knock-out round in the men's World Cup 2022?
8. The study of space involves cosmic scale thought in the fields of cosmology, astronomy and which other?
9. To which of these does the word "Molotov" not refer?
10. Which of these cities is on the delta of the river Neva?
11. Which of these is almost the world's largest moth?
12. What nationality is the 2017 PDC World Darts Champion?
13. Mike Leigh directed what 1999 film, starring Jim Broadbent and Timothy Spall, about a famous music theatre partnership?
14. Which is the weakest force?
15. What was a unique aspect of the 2015 presidential election in Croatia?
16. The condition whereby hostages form sympathetic bonds with their captors is known as what?
17. What name is given to a style of journalism that is written subjectively, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative?
18. What is the name of the art form where objects are glued to, usually, a piece of paper or canvas?
19. Which player made a comeback to international tennis in 2006 after 4 years?
20. Which Scottish ballerina made her international debut in 1941, married Ludovic Kennedy in 1950, appeared in films from 1948 to 1960, and died in 2006?
21. What actor links the films "12 Years a Slave", "August:Osage County" and "Penguins of Madagascar" ?
22. In 1942, Ecuadoran cities Guayaquil, Portoviejo and Guaranda and surrounding areas were substantially damaged. What was the cause?
23. What rating system for talk shows, defined as the ratio of interrupted sentences versus all sentences within a typical program, expressed as a percentage, was invented by author Stephen Euin Cobb?
24. What is the name of the official proceedings of the UK's House of Commons?
25. Who was one of David Letterman's first guests in "Late Night with David Letterman" when it debuted in 1982?
26. What event affecting television happened in the United States on 8 September 2008 and in Canada on 31 August 2011?
27. In the TV series "The Flintstones", who were the parents of Pebbles and Bam Bam?
28. The plot of "The Nutcracker" ballet is an adaptation of a short story by whom?
29. What was the most typical subject of paintings by Dégas?
30. Who is the "moi" to whom the quote "Après moi, le déluge" is attributed?
31. Where do Aeolian forces have most impact?
32. What is another name for the larkspur?
33. Which of these is not a member of the dog family?
34. Mstislav Rostropovich is most associated with which musical instrument?
35. What was the name of Han Solo's spacecraft in the first "Star Wars" film to be released?
36. The warriors known as "berserkers" were legendary figures in which mythology?
37. What term is used to describe a wine with bold, brash and audacious flavours?
38. The French National Assembly is housed in which building?
39. In March 2009, 53rd Street in New York city was renamed what?
40. What do the Edwin Smith Papyrus and the Ebers Papyrus from the 16th century BCE record?
41. The girth goes on which part of the horse?
42. A child's skull found in 1829 in Engis, Belgium, (labelled Engis 2) was eventually recognised as the earliest remains of what to be found?
43. The 2017 films "Sandy Wexler" and "Win It All" are both what?
44. Which caricaturist, starting in 1778, went on to savage George III, major politicians, Napoléon Bonaparte, war, French Jacobins and debauched English gentlemen, and to establish the "honest" countryman John Bull as the epitome of Englishness?
45. Geoff Capes, twice the world's strongest man, won 2 Commonwealth Games gold medals in which sport?
46. What name was given to a group of racing drivers that included Woolf Barnato, Glen Kidston, Henry Birkin, Bernard Rubin, Dudley Benjafield & Sammy Davis, who were responsible for four consecutive victories at the Le Mans 24 hours from 1927 to 1930?
47. The English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is described as having made fundamental contributions to the early development of what?
48. Which military bugle call is traditionally played to get soldiers out of bed?
49. What is one of the strongest bones in the animal kingdom?
50. Which of these countries has a coastline on the Persian Gulf?
51. Glaucoma affects which part of the body?
52. In what sport is "touché" said to signify that an opponent has scored a hit?
53. Which of these is not the name of one of King Lear's children, according to Shakespeare's play "King Lear" ?
54. Why, during World War I, were some munition workers nicknamed "canary girls" or simply "canaries" ?
55. Which of these dogs was the main character in Jack London's book, "The Call of the Wild" ?
56. When was the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) created?
57. Carl Lewis won 9 Olympic gold medals. He won his first in what year?
58. What other well-known work was written by the author of "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" ?
59. What was "the stews" another word for?
60. Which 1983 arcade game is recognised as the first of the genre known as "Olympic" video games?
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