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General Knowledge Quiz 20 (60 MCQs)

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1. The video and streaming service Hotstar is an Indian subsidiary of what organisation?
2. What animal is involved in "dressage" ?
3. Toward the end of 2000, in which sport was the diameter of the ball increased by 2mm to make it easier to be seen on television and thus make it more viable as a televised spectator sport?
4. The character of John Bull is a national personification of which group of people in general?
5. In which Winter Olympics did mixed doubles curling become a full medal competition?
6. The Grand Prince of Moscow who was crowned Tsar when aged 16 on 16 January 1547, became known as whom?
7. What is the name for the reverse image on film from which a photograph is printed?
8. Who was the Roman god of wine and fertility?
9. In February 1841, English polymath, inventor, politician and scientist William Henry Fox Talbot patented a process which was seminal in the development of what?
10. A hammer and toothed chisel is used in creating which form of art?
11. Before 1972, what was Sri Lanka known as?
12. What do the Akan peoples in Ghana, various indigenous peoples in North America, people of a number of Greek islands (at least until the 19th century), and the Khasi peoples in India have in common?
13. Between them, which National Basketball Association (NBA) teams in the US have won 34 championships (as at 2020) of the 68 held since the first in 1947?
14. Which of these is an American dramatic TV series that premièred in September 2006 and centres on the upper class Walker family and their lives in Los Angeles, California?
15. Benjamin Disraeli's government was elected in the UK how many times?
16. Which cities does the Madaraka Express Railway connect?
17. How is sidereal time measured?
18. Denmark has a land border with which of these countries?
19. What name is given to an American whiskey, a type of distilled spirit, made primarily from corn and named for a county in Kentucky?
20. What is the medical term for abnormally low body temperature?
21. Which of these animal films was released last?
22. Where is the European Court of Human Rights?
23. Which of these wars is the earliest in which gunpowder was used in heavy artillery weapons?
24. Who created the fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey?
25. Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro are on the coastal termination of what mountain range?
26. Brasília has been the capital of Brazil since 1960. Where was the capital before that?
27. Where is the Muglad Basin?
28. What is the relationship between Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist Christy Moore and Irish folk-rock singer-songwriter Luka Bloom?
29. In 1978 George Moscone, the mayor of which city, and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by ex-supervisor Dan White?
30. What is the name of a game played with rope rings that are caught and thrown by the players on a court similar to a tennis court?
31. Which of these organisations was not founded in England?
32. Where is the Darién Gap?
33. Which is the largest of the Channel Islands, where the official language is French?
34. What is the name for a hydrometer which is used for determining the alcoholic strength of liquids?
35. When "The Titanic" set out on her maiden voyage, she had enough lifeboats for what percentage of the passengers and crew that were on board?
36. How is the value of eight expressed in a base eight numbering system?
37. Which cricketer scored 158 runs in 2005 to secure the Ashes for England?
38. Which of these is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan?
39. What is the name of a slender highly tempered, sharp-pointed, edgeless weapon about 3 feet long?
40. In the western or the Christian world what is termed "the Good Book" ?
41. What game, whose players use a squidger, aim to squop their opponents, occasionally to boondock them, and in a variant play a jeu de puces, was held in a Royal Match in 2008 to commemorate a 50th anniversary?
42. Which of these is the name of a US special operations force?
43. In the song "My Generation" by the Who, what words follow the line "People try to put us down" ?
44. The aria "Nessun Dorma" is from what opera?
45. If a field is 25 metres square, what is the length of the perimeter?
46. By what name is Marian (or Mary Ann) Evans, who wrote "Adam Bede", "The Mill On The Floss" and "Silas Marner", better known?
47. Apart from in zoos and breeding centres, where is the endangered pygmy hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis, mostly found?
48. How many bones are there, excluding the jaw and the bones in the ear, in the human skull?
49. Which of these musicals was not composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber?
50. Five of Canada's fourteen UNESCO World heritage sites (Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Wood Buffalo National Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump) are in which Canadian province?
51. The school of thought known as diffusionism is a study in which field?
52. In 2019 what are Dorian, Lorenzo and Humberto?
53. The portrait of which US statesman appears on the US $ 100 bill?
54. By what name is Vincent Fernier better known?
55. Which country has borders with Brazil, Paraguay and Peru?
56. Which of these is a branch of crime fiction characterised by strong, independent female detectives, that was labelled and effectively created as a genre during the 1990s?
57. Where is Mount Ararat?
58. What is a rhumb line?
59. Which of these was NOT one of three "resident priests" in the TV series "Father Ted" ?
60. Where did British mill engineer Joseph Jagger famously "break the bank" at a gaming establishment in 1873?
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