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General Knowledge Quiz 207 (60 MCQs)

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1. What relation are Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus to each other?
2. What happened to Mr Creosote in Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" ?
3. The initiative for what current unit of the British Army was begun during World War II in 1941 by David Stirling as a commando force operating behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa and Europe?
4. Which play, developed in the Vineyard Arts Project at Martha's Vineyard in the USA and premiering on Broadway in 2014, was based on the autobiography of Broadway writer and director Moss Hart?
5. Which of these terms comes from surfing?
6. Wordsworth was inspired to write "Earth has not anything to show more fair" by the view from which London bridge?
7. Which band put out a single in 1996 called "Tonight Tonight" ?
8. Who was the first person to refuse an Academy Award for Best Actor?
9. In 1980, at 14 years old who was the youngest person to appear on the cover of "Vogue" magazine?
10. Which is one of the recognised languages in Israel?
11. What is a word for giddiness, often associated with a disease of the inner ear?
12. What is a link between the films "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), "The Way We Were" (1973), "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982), "Yentl" (1983) and the television series "The Sandy Duncan Show" (1972)?
13. Which card game, originating in Spain and introduced to England in 1861, is played between 2 persons with 2 packs of cards (with sixes and below removed) who are dealt 8 cards each?
14. Where is Saskatoon?
15. Whose hit records include "Gold Digger" (feat. Jamie Foxx) "Stronger" and "Heartless" ?
16. Which of these is a type of spider?
17. Where is Daintree National Park, a rainforest which is described as possibly the oldest existing tropical forest?
18. Which mass murderer was instrumental in 1996 in bringing world attention to Dunblane Primary School?
19. When does a biennial event occur?
20. Pamela Lonsdale created which 20 year UK children's TV series?
21. The word "ransack" comes from Old Norse and Old English words meaning "thoroughly to search the ..... " what?
22. Which of these was a US scientist who won a Nobel prize in both 1954 and 1962?
23. A World Team Cup first held in 1987 and, since 1991, biennially in (among others) Australia, the USA, Germany, Japan, New Zealand is in what sport?
24. Which film about figure skaters starred Jon Heder and Will Ferrell?
25. In 2005, who became the youngest Formula One Champion Racing Driver at the age of 24?
26. The clove hitch, the reef and the granny are types of what?
27. Which series first released on Netflix in 2019, co-created by and starring Natasha Lyonne, received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations in its first season?
28. What is a holobiont?
29. Which of the four Gospels in the Christian New Testament is not a synoptic gospel?
30. Where was Harris Tweed originally produced?
31. Who was the sister of film actress Joan Fontaine?
32. What kind of vegetation grows in taiga?
33. Which of these is a thorn?
34. What are Quetrupillán, Lanín and Rucapillán in Chile?
35. What are found in only two places in Africa:on Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Kenya?
36. The Flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi) is small, elaborately shaped, spectacularly colourful, and also what?
37. Where is the pituitary gland?
38. Curcumin is the main active ingredient in what spice?
39. Which expression is associated with the sinking of the HMS Birkenhead at Gansbaai near Cape Town, South Africa, in February 1852?
40. From what are capers obtained?
41. What is the surname of sisters and singers Dannii and Kylie?
42. What is the common name for a soft dull greenish brown or grey variety of clay that falls to a powder in water?
43. Where is the benthic zone?
44. Which British political party led by John Hargrave wore green shirts as a uniform?
45. Where are the Shere Hills, a range of undulating hills and rock formations in western Africa?
46. What is another name for shingles?
47. What land forms characterise the western regions of Siberia abutting the Ural mountains?
48. The grandson of Sigmund Freud, Jewish and taken to Britain from an increasingly dangerous Germany in 1933, specialised later in what kind of work?
49. A decade covers how many years?
50. Who sang while Ray Manzarek, Robbie Kreiger and John Densmore played?
51. Which of these "Catherine/Katherine"s was never a queen or empress?
52. In both Chinese Checkers and Draughts, players can do what?
53. What is used as a measure of inflation in a country's economy?
54. When F.W.de Klerk, State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994, left office which of these was NOT an achievement of his presidency?
55. Which of these crops is produced most world-wide?
56. What was the name of the monumental exhibit by Israeli artist Ron Arad displayed in the Annenberg Courtyard throughout the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2016?
57. What sport that began in Wānaka, New Zealand in 1867 is popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, the USA and Australia?
58. Who is the patron saint of England?
59. What is Ethiopia's main port city?
60. Who, at the age of 50, had become the world's richest man through the activities of the Standard Oil Company?
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