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General Knowledge Quiz 200 (60 MCQs)

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1. What was the first name of the opera composer Verdi?
2. Who wrote an autobiography called "Boy Wonder:My Life in Tights" ?
3. Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis starred as Madeline "Maddie" Hayes and David Addison in which TV series (1985 to 1989) that revolved around cases investigated by Blue Moon Detective Agency?
4. Billie Piper played the travelling companion to the lead role in which TV series that played in Great Britain in 2005?
5. Which animal has eyes with up to 16 different photoreceptors, which can see UV, visible and polarised light, which can perceive depth with one eye, and can move independently?
6. What organisation developed the Rosetta space mission?
7. Where is Nassau a national capital city?
8. What did Bayer name its new over the counter drug in 1898, developed and advertised as a morphine substitute and cough suppressant that did not have its addictive side-effects?
9. Which European discovered New Zealand in 1642?
10. In the Olympic shot put competition, what is the weight of the men's shot?
11. Six states in the USA are split between two time zones, Eastern and Central. They are Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee and which other?
12. It was released as a video game in 1994, was restructured as a subscription-based MMORPG in 2004, and in February 2012 had more than 10 million subscribers. Which is it?
13. Which of these is the lowest suit when bidding in the card game Five Hundred?
14. Which of these was an English cricketer who played for Middlesex and England in 78 Test matches, and was a footballer at Arsenal F.C. in the 1930s to 1950s?
15. Which of these was a 1990 / 1991 TV series starring Clive Owen?
16. Although the Somali sengi was known locally it had not been observed by scientists after 1970 and was considered extinct, until 2020 when scientists found it again. What is its English name?
17. Which of these lies on the equator?
18. What is a common factor in the land forms of Bhutan, northern Italy and the Basque region of Spain and France?
19. What Latin phrase means "my fault", literally "my blow" ?
20. Which of these is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen?
21. Which coach of the Notre Dame american football team was killed in a plane crash in 1931?
22. In 1863 the Société d'Encouragement launched an event to see international contest between what or who?
23. Aniseed is NOT the predominant flavouring of which of these drinks?
24. The song "Snoopy's Christmas" is set during what major period in history?
25. Who was the first General Secretary of the International Olympic Committee and later became its President, serving until 1924?
26. A "steamer", that covers the torso and the full length of the arms and legs, is a type of what?
27. What was the Pearl, created and first marketed by Peek Frean in 1865?
28. According to philosopher John Stuart Mill what " ..... is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it" ?
29. Curling stones are traditionally made of what?
30. Outside his professional life as a police detective, the character of Inspector Lynley in the UK series "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries" is what?
31. Which of Queen Elizabeth II's children was last to leave the single state and get married?
32. What was Greta Garbo's first sound film (advertised as "Garbo speaks!"), in a filmed version of a play by Eugene O'Neill?
33. Which 2001 American black comedy film was based on a 1958 Friedrich Dürrenmatt novel from his screenplay developed for the German film "It Happened in Broad Daylight" ?
34. Who is the nursery rhyme gardener?
35. Which of these cities has nicknames including the Granite City, the Grey City, the Silver City with the Golden Sands?
36. In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" from the first ball in both innings?
37. What might a ferroequinologist observe or study?
38. Claire Foy and Sverrir Gudnason appeared in what 2018 film, replacing what was to be a follow up to a critically acclaimed 2011 film, using the same characters but not the same actors and based on a book by a different author?
39. In 1660, John Milton's books were burned in London because of his attacks on whom?
40. The episodes of which TV series ended with the family saying goodnight to each other?
41. What is the name given to copper bars arranged in a cylinder, insulated from each other which rotates to connect each section of the armature in turn (in a motor) or to the external current (in a dynamo)?
42. Which of these is the name of a World Heritage Site in Australia?
43. What is the collective name for The Colossus of Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Pharos at Alexandria, the Pyramids of Egypt, Pheidias' Statue of Jupiter at Olympus, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus?
44. Which character is the first to die in the British TV soap "Coronation Street" (in the seventh episode)?
45. Who developed and built Catch Me Who Can?
46. Which of these is a New England state of the USA?
47. Who was the principal villain in the 2004 movie 'Spider-Man 2'?
48. It started as a play in Germany in 1897 by Oscar Blumenthal and actor Gustav Kadelburg, was recreated as a silent film in 1926 and then as a musical in 1930 as which it has remained popular. What is the title?
49. What is Sirius B, the smaller body of the Sirius binary star?
50. What would audiences watching the play "The Comedy of Errors" by William Shakespeare expect their main response to be?
51. What military slang term for members of the US Marine Corps was derived from a special collar once worn around the neck by both American and British Marines and soldiers from 1798?
52. What is a wyvern?
53. When Kobe Bryant of the Lakers played the farewell game of his 20 year NBA career in 2016 what was his score as part of his side's 101-96 win?
54. In November 2015 how did Michelle Payne make history?
55. Actor John Wayne is mostly associated with what type of film?
56. What was the name given to the line of German defences that ran across Italy from east to west, through the Apennine Mountains via the mountains behind the town of Cassino, to the mouth of the Sangro River in the east?
57. Claude Rouget de Lisle composed which well known tune in 1792?
58. What does the Latin term "compos mentis" mean?
59. What characterises "Los Angeles smog" ?
60. Which American singer who starred in "The New Mickey Mouse Club" from 1993 to 1994 and released her debut album " ..... Baby One More Time" in 1999 was ranked by Forbes in 2009 as the 13th most powerful celebrity and the 2nd biggest-earning young musician?
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