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General Knowledge Quiz 193 (60 MCQs)

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1. In addition to being a semitic letter and a name for tanning leather, what can "taw" mean?
2. What song was written by Bob Geldof in the aftermath of Brenda Ann Spencer's attempted massacre at an elementary school across the street from her house in San Diego, California, in 1979?
3. For which of these contexts could "clarity" be an appropriate noun for the word "clear" ?
4. What is Crémant?
5. Which culture is known for deliberately mummifying its dead as long ago as 5050 BCE?
6. By what name was US president Andrew Jackson affectionately known?
7. What is the word for the minimum number of people necessary to formally constitute a meeting?
8. Louis Farrakhan, the National Representative of the Nation of Islam and an advocate for black interests, is an activist in which country?
9. In what discussion is the term "sett" appropriate?
10. What is an aramaic word meaning "father" that is used as a title of respect to bishops and patriarchs in Coptic, Syrian and Abyssinian churches?
11. Historically, anthrax was recognised as a common industrial disease of which of these professions?
12. Where is the Chungyang mountain range?
13. Which of these countries has a border with France?
14. Which ancient people were thought to have built large pyramidal structures at Tula and Teotihuacan, Mexico?
15. When the UK version of the biographical documentary "This Is Your Life" TV series aired who was the first presenter?
16. Which of these is a famous aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot that means "None shall sleep" ?
17. Who, before being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003, was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice?
18. The line "It did always seem so to us, but now in the division of the kingdom it appears not which of the Dukes he values most, for equalities are so weighed that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety" is spoken by which Shakespearean character?
19. The Indonesian Army special forces group, founded in 1952, that conducts special operations missions for the Indonesian government is called what?
20. In the 19th century, who wrote "Stancliffe's Hotel" when she was 23, a decade before she found a public audience, that was not published until 2003?
21. Who was the nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and heir to the throne, who renounced his children's right to succession in order to make a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek and was assassinated with her in Bosnia in 1914?
22. Which comic character was introduced in More Fun Comics #73 in November 1941?
23. Neo, Morpheus and the city of Zion feature in what 1999 film?
24. Who composed the music for the musical "Chess" ?
25. Which of these US prisons is still operational?
26. "Campbell's Soup Cans", produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol, consists of a number of canvases, each 20 inches by 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm), each with a painting of a can. How many canvases are there?
27. Lake Titicaca is in which mountain range?
28. What was the original name of the ship, the Golden Hind, used by Francis Drake to circumnavigate the globe?
29. Ansel Adams and Terence Donovan were prominent in what field?
30. When was the film "Pinky" made, dealing with the experience and challenges of an African American who has lived as white?
31. What was the purpose of the international body, IWC, when it was set up in 1946?
32. What is a phrase for a brief nap?
33. What are Soohorang and Bandabi, the official mascots for the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics respectively?
34. What sport is featured in the play "Daisy Pulls It Off" by Denise Deegan?
35. Laminitis is inflammation in layers of what?
36. The Victoria Falls are on the border of Zimbabwe and which other country?
37. Rembrandt painted a number of paintings of himself, all containing what title?
38. In September 2015 Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister of what country?
39. Twin brothers Phil and Steve Mahre won gold and silver in the 1984 Winter Olympics in which sport?
40. Which of these characters appear in the Charles Dickens novel "Martin Chuzzlewit" ?
41. People from Brittany in France are known as what?
42. Military signals are usually played on which instrument?
43. What does the firm Condé Nast do?
44. What is FMT trialled for?
45. Which is one of two territories which have declared themselves independent since 2008 but remain claimed by their parent country as its occupied territories?
46. The Sex Pistols' initial career lasted two and a half years. How many studio albums of fresh material did they issue officially in that period?
47. Where would you find the river Bug?
48. Which composer's works include the operas "La Bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly", and the arias "O mio babbino caro", "Che gelida manina", and "Nessun dorma" ?
49. Haricot beans are commonly used in what common canned product?
50. Where are the islands called Amherst, Bayfield, Greene, Simcoe, High Bluff, Nicholson, Waupoos and Wolfe?
51. The caffeine-rich infused drink, mate, is prepared from a species of South American holly called what?
52. In 1977, Hamida Djandoubi was involved in what act that was special in French history?
53. "Chateau Snavely", "Amanda's", and "Payne" were three attempts to remake which UK TV series for the US market?
54. What is a cantaloupe?
55. What is a half-pipe used for?
56. When was the island and port of Lagos, part of what is now the most populous city in Africa, ceded to Great Britain?
57. Robert Allen Zimmerman, American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist, is better known as what?
58. Miss Worlds 1999 and 2000 both represented which country?
59. What shape are the 20 faces of a icosahedron?
60. Which polemical and lastingly influential book about writing and freedom was published in England in 1644 at the height of the English Civil War by a scholar and philosopher later known and celebrated more for poetry?
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