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General Knowledge Quiz 208 (60 MCQs)

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1. What would you do with a fricassee?
2. Which country borders the transcontinental country of Panama to the south?
3. When was the Melbourne Cup first officially raced?
4. What is the last name of "Oprah" ?
5. Which golfer was continuously ranked as the world's number one golfer on "McCormack's World Golf Rankings" from its inception in 1968 to 1977?
6. What is the medical term for a jawbone?
7. Zara Phillips, the daughter of Princess Anne of the UK, is associated most with which of these?
8. Titicaca, which contains one of the highest freshwater lakes in the world, is populated by people who live exclusively on the Uros. What is that?
9. Which of these people is most likely to use a monkey wrench?
10. Which of these is an American jazz musician best known for playing the saxophone?
11. Amortisation is similar to ..... ?
12. "The Book of St Albans", 1486, partly written or assembled by Juliana Berners, said to have been the Benedictine prioress of the Priory of St. Mary of Sopwell near St Albans in Hertfordshire, is better known as ..... ?
13. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are sited on opposite sides of which river?
14. What are the names of the late Michael Jackson's parents?
15. Where does Sudan have a coastline?
16. South Africa, Australia and New Zealand were designated "Dominions" in the early part of which century?
17. Which of these could not be not an "arabesque" ?
18. "Braeburn" is a variety of what?
19. Which phrase that first came to public attention as a U.S. television commercial for the Wendy's chain of hamburger restaurants in 1984 became associated with the 1984 U.S. presidential election when Walter Mondale ridiculed Gary Hart's candidacy?
20. The Reisswitz game introduced in 1824 allowed players to do what?
21. Where have the World Snooker Championships been held since 1977?
22. Mohandas Gandhi studied law at which English educational institution?
23. Whose first book, published in 1920, was "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" ?
24. Which of these is the word for a French stew made using lamb or mutton?
25. Still life is a term which can be applied to a certain style of what?
26. How heavy is a megagram?
27. Who was the first Westerner to discover the Victoria Falls?
28. What word can either refer to a nineteenth century mobile theatre device, or, in modern usage, a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum?
29. The distinctive Ponte JK (Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge) spans what body of water in Brazil?
30. Where is the region known as Transylvania?
31. Which early 19th century English writer, while collaborating in several works, also wrote under the pseudonym of Sempronia?
32. More than 99% of the visible mass of our solar system is contained within what?
33. Who was the first woman to make a solo flight from England to Australia in 1930?
34. "Out of Africa" (1985), starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, is based loosely on the 1937 autobiography of a person from which country?
35. The root vegetable called the swede is also called what other name?
36. The rate of glacier melting in ranges across Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, India, China and Pakistan has doubled in the 21st century, except for glaciers in which?
37. Bear Grylls is the only person to appear in what TV series?
38. Symptoms of what disease include fever, shivering, joint pain, vomiting, anaemia, hemoglobinuria, retinal damage, and convulsions, with cyclical occurrence of sudden coldness followed by rigour, fever and sweating?
39. In which US Senate election were all senators popularly elected for the first time?
40. In which country is the city of Cardiff?
41. Which of these sports has an even number of players in a standard team?
42. What were first introduced in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in May 1, 1840, promoted by Rowland Hill?
43. Which Swiss national is a leading tennis player?
44. In a casino, what is the name of the box that holds multiple decks of playing cards?
45. Which of these sports has an event called the "omnium" ?
46. What product is derived from the distillation of wood, coal and shale?
47. Which of these is a book by John Steinbeck?
48. What is the name for an expert on reptiles?
49. What is the main attraction at both Altamira and Lascaux?
50. Who is the father of the twin boys born to Brooke Mueller on 14 March 2009?
51. Which of these words is sometimes applied to the conductor of an orchestra?
52. Lenny Bruce was in what field of entertainment in the 1960s?
53. Who won a boxing match (by a majority judges' decision in eight rounds) with Joe Frazier's daughter, Jackie Frazier-Lyde, on 8 June 2001?
54. During World War II the US and UK armies used bodies of, respectively, over 54, 000 and 250, 000 what, as part of their communication and/or delivery systems?
55. What is the state animal of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean?
56. Who of these is most associated with Fleetwood Mac?
57. The large wrinkled leaves of which plant provide digitalin, used in the treatment of heart conditions?
58. Which of these countries is the largest by area?
59. Aeschylus, Greek religious thinker and playwright, was killed when a tortoise hit him on the head. How did the tortoise land there?
60. KwaZulu-Natal is a province in which country?
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