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General Knowledge Quiz 19 (60 MCQs)

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1. Geoffrey Palmer played the reticent husband of his wistful wife, and Nicholas Lyndhurst one of their two young-adult sons, in which bittersweet 1978-1983 British TV series?
2. What part of the body does interstitial nephritis affect?
3. What does the Latin phrase "ad infinitum" mean?
4. What is the tournament, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship?
5. North, South, East and West are the way that players are designated in which game?
6. Aberdeen is known as what?
7. Which song has the line: "Girls don't like boys, they like cars and money" ?
8. The Neckar, Main and Ruhr are tributaries of which river?
9. Which race when first run on 30 September 1906 from Paris, France, was won by Frank Purdy Lahm of the USA who, with co-pilot Henry Hersey, reached the northeast coast of England?
10. In 1835 Maori from the mainland of New Zealand went to Rekohu, or the Chatham Islands, and slaughtered or enslaved the entire population of which people?
11. Which country suffered the largest number of deaths from a tsunami on 26 December 2004?
12. In the stories by Enid Blyton, what is the name of the best friend of Big Ears?
13. What nationality is the soccer player Dennis Bergkamp?
14. Where is the Pantanal?
15. Which part of the cardamom plant is used as a spice?
16. The Allied forces signed four armistices in the last 6 weeks of World War I. What was the final one known as, in which Germany accepted defeat?
17. What is silver service for?
18. One of the top songs for 2012 featured Gotye and which other artist?
19. Which of these is a slang British term for a prison sentence?
20. According to a fragment of "The Achilleid", written by Statius in the first century AD, when Achilles the mythological Greek hero was born, his mother tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the river Styx. Where was he left vulnerable?
21. Where do the Bovanenkovo-Ukhta and Bovanenkovo-Ukhta 2 natural gas pipelines, which went live in 2012 and 2014, draw their gas from?
22. Murine typhus, Rocky mountain spotted fever and Boutonneuse fever are illnesses in a family known collectively as what kind of disease?
23. The song "Good Morning To All", composed by Pattie and Mildred Hill in 1893, is now sung as what?
24. Which archipelago, formerly administered through Madagascar, includes the islands of Mayotte, Anjouan, Grande Comore and Moheli?
25. One type of scarab beetle is a what?
26. Ethnography is the scientific study, recording and analysis of what?
27. In March 1918, the capital of Russia was moved to where?
28. Federico Garcia Lorca is best known internationally as what?
29. The warrant for the first Astronomer Royal appointed in England, 4 March 1675, stated what as the purpose of the office?
30. Which island fort, built to protect the port of Charleston, South Carolina, USA, was the site of the first action in the American Civil War?
31. What is the name for the masses of lymphoid tissue between the nose and throat that are sometimes removed by an operation in cases where enlargement is having a detrimental effect on health?
32. In Othello, of whom does Iago say "Forsooth, a great arithmetician" ?
33. What is known as the "standard gauge" for a railway?
34. Rhythmic gymnasts perform with one of a rope, hoop, ball, ribbon and which other?
35. What is the national monument of India, one of the largest war memorials in India, situated in the heart of New Delhi, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and originally known as All India War Memorial, made up of red sand stone and granite?
36. What does a milliner make?
37. By a proclamation of a binding "axis" and then a formal Pact a month later between, respectively, Germany-Italy and Germany-Japan an offensive alliance was sealed relating to what became known as World War II. When were the agreements made?
38. The Super Bowl, the championship game of the premier association of professional American football, was first held in what year?
39. The harsh Yuma Desert lies to the east of which river?
40. What was the setting for the novel "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery?
41. The people of which extremely wealthy city in what is now southern Italy became a byword for people living in opulent luxury and for outrageous pleasure-seeking?
42. Dick Turpin was famous as what sort of criminal?
43. What is unusual in the bird world about the mating dance of some species of manakin birds?
44. What is the name for the use of X Rays in medicine?
45. What name was given to the left-leaning military coup that started on 25 April 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy?
46. In ballet, what is the name for a "dance duet" in which ballet steps are performed together?
47. The Stool of Repentance was used in what practice?
48. What are nudibranchs?
49. Which folk band formed by Randy Sparks in 1961 had several Top 40 hits, including "This Land Is Your Land", "Green, Green", "Today" and "Ramblin" '?
50. Louis Comfort Tiffany was particularly well-known for his work in what?
51. Over one third of which state of the USA is in the Arctic Circle?
52. Who played the part of the Stig, the incognito expert driver for BBC's programme "Top Gear", on just one occasion on 22 June 2009?
53. Which of these are associated with influence stemming from activities in the 16th century?
54. Who appeared in the films "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (2007), "Burn After Reading" (2008), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008) and "Inglourious Basterds" (2009)?
55. What music was commissioned for George II's coronation in 1727, and has featured in every British coronation since?
56. Which of these animals is native to Asia but not to Africa, South America or North America?
57. What type of building in the Roman forum, the largest of its type there, was called "Julia" ?
58. For which sport, now banned in Britain by the Hunting Act 2004, was the "Waterloo Cup" 3 day event run annually at Great Altcar in Lancashire, England from 1836 to 2005?
59. A gobo is a small screen used to shape theatre lighting, but also what?
60. What board game for two players is known as wéiqí in Chinese and baduk in Korean?
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