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General Knowledge Quiz 206 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is part of a car's transmission system?
2. What is the role of Alexandre Desplat in the films "Golden Compass", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (I & II), "The Grand Budapest Hotel", "The King's Speech" and "The Imitation Game" ?
3. What was the name of the unfortunate fish in the 1988 film starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin?
4. What is something for which the French mechanic Arsène Millochau (1867?-1948) is celebrated?
5. What does the science of metrology study?
6. From the first Pokémon World Championship in 2004 until 2019 where were the tournaments held?
7. Ayers, Blake's Pride, Concorde and Louise Bonne are types of what?
8. In which city did American colonists dump tea imported from England into a harbour in 1773?
9. The first time that Roger Bannister ran under 4 minutes for a mile at an international meeting was at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, B.C. Which country was he representing?
10. In the mid 1990s what major fossil discovery was made in Liaoning, China?
11. Which of these is a book by Ian Fleming that has James Bond as one of its characters?
12. Why is "Chantilly porcelain", made from 1730 to 1800 near the Château de Chantilly (Oise, France), technically an imitation porcelain?
13. What was the nickname of the defending champion in the 2014 World Snooker Championship?
14. What is a quinella?
15. Which Norwegian musician, initially a concert pianist, composed the incidental music for the première of Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt" in 1876?
16. What part of a turtle is its plastron?
17. In heraldic terms, impalement has largely replaced what practice?
18. Sonny Bill Williams has worked in a number of sporting codes; which of these is not one of them?
19. Of Africa's 54 internationally recognised territories and states how many have a coast on the Mediterranean Sea?
20. Where did the world's first commercial passenger tram run?
21. In 2003, Britain's first what was opened just north of Birmingham?
22. Leo Zulueta is a notable artist in what field?
23. Wu Zetian (625-705), also known as Wu Zhao and Tian Hou, is the only woman in the history of China to do what?
24. Which country, the oldest existing monarchy in Europe, whose national flag is the oldest state flag in continuous use, became a constitutional monarchy in 1849 and a parliamentary democracy in 1901?
25. A swallowtail is a type of what?
26. As at 2015, after he was runner-up in the Australian Open, what was Scotsman Andy Murray's world ranking in tennis?
27. On or with what does a hoatzin move around?
28. An Elizabethan sea captain and explorer was Sir Francis who?
29. Which of these tunes is from the 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney "Pinocchio" ?
30. Of which country in South America are both the Ticuna and Yanomami indigenous peoples?
31. Not all of the USA's 50 states are formally called a "state"; what are the others formally known as?
32. Which of these was the earliest to marry one of the children of Queen Elizabeth II?
33. The final carrier of the Olympic flame in the Olympic Torch Relay is often kept secret until the last moment, and is usually who?
34. Which fictional character in the land of Oz, created by L. Frank Baum, is sometimes named "Locasta" or "Tattypoo" ?
35. The band, "Eric Burdon & The Animals", has which of the original Animals as one of Eric Burdon's backing musicians?
36. How many Great Lakes, on or close to the border between Canada and the USA, are there?
37. Who married Heidi Klum in May 2005?
38. What is typical of an ungulate?
39. What is one of the motifs which characterises the saz artistic style?
40. The critically acclaimed Australian TV series "Cloudstreet" was based on a play developed from a novel by which writer?
41. Kickflips, ollies, Nollies and nosediving are moves in what sport?
42. What is a word game where paragraphs are written in which a particular letter or group of letters is omitted?
43. What language does the word "Nakba" come from?
44. In climbing and mountaineering, where are crampons worn?
45. Who, in 1949, became Premier and Foreign Minister of the first all-China Communist government?
46. What disaster occurred on the San Andreas Fault in 1906?
47. Beachy Head overlooks what stretch of sea?
48. Which newspaper, originally called "The Daily Universal Register" was founded by John Walter in 1785?
49. Sunspots on the sun are the result of what?
50. When German forces sank the ocean liner RMS Lusitania towards the end of her voyage from New York to Liverpool, on 7 May 1915, what did her manifest show her as carrying, in addition to 1, 960 passengers, stowaways, musicians and crew?
51. What fictional village was the setting for Dylan Thomas's "Under Milkwood", a 1954 play for radio later adapted for the stage?
52. What is someone who has podophilia attracted to?
53. Who directed the films "Miracle's Boys", "Inside Man", "When The Levees Broke:A Requiem in Four Acts", "Miracle at St. Anna", "Passing Strange" and "Kobe Doin' Work" ?
54. Which dynasty, lasting from 907 to 1125 CE, ruled present-day Mongolia and portions of the Russian Far East, northern Korea, and northern China including all of Manchuria?
55. Where did Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed, driven by Henri Paul, and accompanied by Trevor Rees-Jones die in a car crash on 31 August 1997?
56. The Chinese artist Zhang Huan, also in New York, USA, works in what field?
57. The English mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer Charles Dodgson lectured in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, England, but was more widely known for writing what two books?.
58. What specially built city has been the capital of Nigeria since 1991, when it was moved from Lagos?
59. What is the nationality of former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali?
60. Who is the next in this series:Julie Stevens, Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson ..... ?
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