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General Knowledge Quiz 188 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of these painting media consists of pigment suspended in water?
2. In November 1986, US President Ronald Reagan set up the Tower Commission to investigate what?
3. Which country, whose capital is Doha, has a population of 1.6 million and an average daily temperature in June and July of 40 degrees Celsius, was ruled until 2013 by Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani?
4. What is an inselberg?
5. When did the first planes fly in a military offensive for Britain, for an organised body which later became the Royal Air Force?
6. In the southern hemisphere, the winds associated with a cyclone, a region of low pressure, blow in which direction?
7. Which city is capital of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)?
8. Horseshoe arches, or keyhole arches, are particularly characteristic of what kind of architecture?
9. Which UK television series features a character called Mrs Bucket?
10. Where is the UNESCO World Heritage site known as Los Glaciares National Park?
11. A game popular in a number of countries and known variously as Belote, Boeuf, Vida, and other names is played with what?
12. Which of these is in Nice?
13. The Altai Mountains for some of their range form part of the border between which two countries?
14. What is the name for a defect of vision caused by deviation of eyes from parallel courses, giving the impression that the person is looking in two directions at once and meaning that the eyes cannot focus on a single point?
15. What sign of the zodiac is represented by twins?
16. What name was given to the accidental destruction caused to British trawlers and fishermen by ships from the Russian navy on 21 October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War?
17. Which of these was a dance popular in the 1920s?
18. During Norodom Sihanouk's term as Prime Minister of Cambodia beginning in 1955 (after abdicating as King) he did what?
19. From 2010 to 2019, Chile was the world's leading miner of ..... ?
20. What ore is the chief source of aluminium?
21. What is the James Webb, launched into space in 2021 by a partnership between the space agencies in the US, Europe and Canada?
22. What is the nearest still living relative of the giraffe?
23. In 1938 Orson Welles, who was 22 at the time, wrote, produced, and narrated a radio play adaptation of what work, the US broadcast of which sparked widespread upheaval and panic?
24. The naval base Pearl Harbour is in which US state?
25. Which of these states of the USA is rectangular?
26. Which of these is a person who can read and write?
27. Carve, Cutback, Drop in, Floater, Goofy foot, Grommet and Off the Hook are terms used in which sport?
28. Anthony Nesty won which country's first Olympic medal, a gold in the 100 m butterfly in the 1988 Summer Olympics?
29. Which is the nearest large high altitude lake to Lake Poopó in Bolivia?
30. When it was enacted in 1883 what did the Pendleton Act establish in the USA?
31. In 2009, L'Osservatore Romano published a controversial article that demonstrated that what had done more for the liberation of woman than the contraceptive pill and abortion pill?
32. Which Greek philosopher was accused by the Sophists of corrupting the youth of Athens and was condemned to death by drinking hemlock?
33. From 1928 the obverse of medals awarded at the Olympic Games carried a picture of the Roman Colosseum. At which Games was this replaced by the Panathinaikon Stadium in Greece?
34. What is the number of the beast, according to the Book of Revelation?
35. What is Bundesliga?
36. Which November 2016 series created by, and released in its entirety on, Netflix had within three months been given awards from the Screen Actors Guild, the Golden Globe and Critics' Choice Television?
37. In 2006 Monty Panesar became the first person of what religion to play test cricket for England?
38. What can be one of the effects on Earth of a Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun?
39. Apart from the platypus what are the only living examples of egg-laying mammals?
40. What does Dorothy Sayers's character Lord Peter Wimsey call his 12-cylinder ("double-six") 1927 Daimler four-seater?
41. What is the country of origin of the cheese called "Monterey Jack" ?
42. Among the works of which English landscape painter are "The Fighting Temeraire" and "The Sun of Venice Going to Sea" ?
43. In what can a slow over rate be penalised?
44. Rabbits are the background for what hit song, biggest selling single in the UK in 1979?
45. What item of sporting equipment usually has three holes drilled in it, although the rules allow for up to five?
46. What is the next in this series:Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta?
47. According to the English nursery rhyme, who "called for his pipe and called for his bowl and called for his fiddlers three" ?
48. Who created the comic strip "Doonesbury" ?
49. Who arrived to play a concert at the Milan's Arena Civica in July 2006, a 12, 000 seat venue, found that the organisers had not put the tickets on general sale and that only 45 people had shown up, and refused to go on stage for such a small audience?
50. Which painter's most famous works include "Portrait of Mrs. Graham", "Mary and Margaret:The Painter's Daughters", "William Hallett and His Wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen", known as "The Morning Walk", and "Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher" ?
51. What word means "a ceremonial meeting of Australian Aborigines" ?
52. A long running television series about a division of police in the UK is ..... ?
53. The Vardon Trophy, first awarded in 1937, and the Byron Nelson Award, first given in 1980, are given in what sport?
54. Who famously flew a kite in a thunderstorm in 1752 to demonstrate the effects of lightning?
55. On a complex Cartesian Plane where is the unit usually represented as i or j?
56. Donald Campbell, the car and motorboat racer who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 60s, was born in which country?
57. Which country music artist performed at the 2017 Superbowl in the USA?
58. Crossword clues are divided into which of these two categories?
59. The 2017 documentary feature film "Kim Dotcom:Caught in the Web" documents what?
60. In which war did forces led by the Duke of Marlborough and the Duke of Savoy beat a combined French-Russian force at Blenheim in Western Bavaria in 1702?
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