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General Knowledge Quiz 185 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who was Geronimo?
2. Who played Neil, the hippie, clinically depressed, pacifist, vegetarian and environmentalist who is victimised by other housemates in the UK TV series "The Young Ones" ?
3. What chemical materials does the process of photosynthesis depend on?
4. A 2015 US TV series centred on high school guidance counsellor Madison Clark, her boyfriend and family is a prequel to what 2010 series?
5. What was the name of a set of 3 treaties signed between the USA and the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho between 21 and 28 October 1867, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma?
6. What did the short-lived 1848 revolutions in the Romanian principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia call for?
7. The musical "The Sound of Music" is set in what city?
8. A landmark decision by the US Supreme Court in 1966 was in favour of what appellant?
9. Broken Arrow, Edmond, Enid, Lawton, Midwest City, Moore, Norman, Stillwater and Tulsa are 9 of the 10 largest cities in which state of the USA?
10. Who was the leader of the Peasant's Revolt in 1381 who, after killing a poll tax collector, marched on London with supporters and was killed there at Smithfield by the Lord Mayor of London?
11. With what is the 12th century Chrétien de Troyes associated?
12. Why did Lawrence Lemieux, a Canadian sailor competing in the 1988 Summer Olympics and finishing in 21st place in his race, receive the Pierre de Coubertin medal?
13. What word, originally applied to a large, flawless diamond, is now used to denote a model of excellence or perfection of any kind?
14. What was the title of Stephen King's first novel, in which a telekinetic woman exacts deadly revenge on her high school classmates?
15. A sequence of overlapping and parallel mountain ranges, commonly called the American Cordillera, forms the backbone of the Americas and stretches from where to where?
16. What is a tepui?
17. What is a common nickname for the English city of Oxford?
18. Which of these events occurred last?
19. Who is thought to have had a dog, but apparently not a cat?
20. King Umberto II ruled Italy for thirty-four days from 9 May 1946 to 12 June 1946. What caused his reign to end?
21. What are fulgurites?
22. Which of these words is Italian for "cat" ?
23. What is the name for the temperature at which, theoretically, all molecular activity ceases and chemical reactions become impossible?
24. Where was a nuclear reactor accident that resulted in a severe release of radioactivity following a massive power excursion which destroyed the reactor on 26 April 1986 at 01:23:45 a.m.?
25. When was the first find of gold in New Zealand, which preceded New Zealand's gold rush?
26. In the film "Batman & Robin", released in 1997, who played the villain called "Mr Freeze" ?
27. What is The Everest, established in 2017?
28. What right of a defendant was last used in "Ashford v Thornton", an 1818 English legal case that was a private appeal from an acquittal for murder?
29. A woman who is primigravida is what?
30. Voyages of exploration which stretched from 1492 to 1504 started with what purpose?
31. Which of these is most likely to use a palette knife?
32. Which river runs through the cities of Basel, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Arnhem, Utrecht and Rotterdam?
33. A plasma display panel contains many tiny cells between two panels of glass which hold a mixture of noble gases. The gas in the cells is electrically turned into a plasma which emits ultraviolet light which then excites what to emit visible light?
34. Which of these are most associated with the first establishment of democracy as a form of government?
35. The four highest elevation capital cities in the world are in which area?
36. What is a "harbinger" ?
37. The city of Rome in what is now Italy was successively the capital for the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and what next?
38. Which of these might seek or be asked to talk with beings or forces from the otherworld?
39. Where was Josef Mengele assigned to, when he carried out his work on people subjected to the Nazi regime?
40. Which semi-aquatic carnivorous mammal of the weasel family has only two living species:the American and the European?
41. Which of these is made in the shape of a closed ring?
42. What is a name for the tingling sensation known as pins and needles?
43. Which Polynesian island nation of 4 reef islands and 5 true atolls in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, became fully independent within the Commonwealth in 1978?
44. Among the several meanings of "parison", which of these is one?
45. What is the regulation length for the pole used in Olympic pole vault?
46. Who played the first doctor in the UK TV series "Dr Who" ?
47. James Frederick Ferrier introduced which word to cover the branch of philosophy concerned with "the theory of knowledge" ?
48. What group of men was constituted to guard the Roman emperor?
49. What is a slang word for someone who deals in stolen goods?
50. Which of these people was born in Vienna?
51. The Union Jack, the British flag, was first used in its present form in what year?
52. In what is the Smyslov screw used?
53. A study in June 2022 led by Joris Peters from Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and Greger Larson from the University of Oxford traced the origin of chicken domestication to a period from the 17th to the 13th century BCE in what present-day country?
54. Where does the approximately 1700km mountain chain known in its southern portion as Tenasserim run?
55. In which country would you find the Moorish castle called the Alhambra?
56. In 1992 the Toronto Blue Jays became the first baseball team to do what?
57. A celebrated case in 1734 in England concerned Judith Defour, found guilty of murdering her two-year old daughter. What was the reason she gave?
58. Which was first?
59. What is Hillary Clinton's maiden name?
60. In what would you find words listed with meanings, derivations, history and pronunciation?
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