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General Knowledge Quiz 211 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is special about many of the ants which belong to the tribe known as Attini?
2. Which of these would you NOT find associated with "mimsy" ?
3. What caused the eventual sinking of the Italian ship, MS Achille Lauro, hijacked in 1985 by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)?
4. Which of these came to the English throne as a result of The "Glorious Revolution" that occurred in Britain in 1688?
5. Apart from a meaning of "criminal" or "malefactor", what is a felon?
6. Where were the 1976 Winter Olympics held?
7. What is an average grid for the strings in an average tennis racquet?
8. When and where were association football games first played under floodlights?
9. Who won the Women's Cricket World Cup played at Sydney, Australia, in 2009?
10. Who was the Roman goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, magic, and the inventor of music?
11. Who was the only person, until Bob Dylan in 2016, to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize for Literature?
12. Which of these affects the human stomach?
13. Marlon Brando played Colonel Kurtz in which 1979 film?
14. Which child film star later went on to be United States Ambassador to Ghana, Chief of Protocol of the United States, and United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia?
15. What was the title of John Wayne's last movie, made in 1976?
16. The term "checkmate" is based on a phrase from which language?
17. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, "Easy Rider", "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Graduate" helped to begin what film-making phase?
18. In 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were held in an attempt to end which war?
19. What phrase refers to an archaic method of excommunication for one who had committed a particularly grievous sin?
20. The sea birds known as boobies are closely related to what?
21. What is the word for a document issued by a political party before an election that sets out party policies?
22. What 1963 political scandal in the UK involved the Secretary of State for War, after he had a brief relationship with the mistress of a Russian spy (a showgirl named Christine Keeler), and lied to the House of Commons about it?
23. Venus and which other planet in our solar system have no moon?
24. Which of these is a designer of hats?
25. Who was the first president of the Turkish Republic after the overthrow of the Sultan in 1922?
26. Moroni is the capital of which African country?
27. Which is the preposition in the tongue twister "She sells sea shells by the sea shore" ?
28. In March 2016, the European Union agreed an arrangement with what country to reduce an increasingly overwhelming flow of migrants to EU countries?
29. The ancient city of Carthage is in which modern day country?
30. Which venue hosted the Winter Olympics in both 1964 and 1976?
31. The Holy Roman Emperor Francis Ii did what in 1806?
32. What can "obverse" mean?
33. Which cakes were named after a baker who lived in Bath?
34. If you travelled downstream along the main outflow from Lake Victoria, which forms part of the borders of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, which city would you be closest to when you reached the mouth of the river?
35. What bridge, completed in the 12th century, is on the Rhone?
36. Which island has belonged to Carthage, Rome, the Saracens, the King of Aragon, the Dukes of Savoy, United Italy under Victor Emmanuel and was granted autonomous government in 1947?
37. One of the books by the English monk Byrhtferth (c. 970-c. 1020), among the most learned scholars of the 10th and 11th centuries, was his Manual or Enchiridion documenting what?
38. The pineapple express is a Pacific jetstream that runs from Hawaii to where?
39. Under what name was the short-lived 1991 TV series based on the "Where's Wally" books released in America?
40. The modern version of what code-breaking board game for two players, that resembles an old pencil and paper game called "Bulls and Cows" , was invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert?
41. The function of the human lymphatic system includes stimulating immune response, taking white blood cells to and from bones, removing interstitial fluid from tissues and what else?
42. Landibé silk is a wild silk spun from the cocoons of various moths of the genus Borocera, found exclusively where?
43. The last words of which book of the Bible are "all is vanity" ?
44. Which of these sportsmen is best known as a rally driver?
45. What country was never defeated during its participation in the FIFA World Cup tournament in South Africa in 2010?
46. What phrase means to speak under one's breath, literally "under voice" ?
47. Which of these is not an animal native to Australia?
48. Which is a major mountain system in Africa?
49. Which of these is not usually a member of a string quartet?
50. What is the name of the mythical beast that roams the Himalayan Alps?
51. The ..... what ..... of dawn is in the very early morning?
52. In 1856, who invented the process whereby 5 tons of steel could be made in 30 minutes instead of in 50lb batches over 10 days and nights, at a tenth of the cost?
53. What was the title of the book that sold for $ US556, 500 at auction in New York in June 2009?
54. Who were the majority of the people to feature in the death toll from the violent riots in Gujarat, India, in 2002?
55. Which actress began her professional film career aged six in "Bright Eyes" in 1934?
56. Which of these is a word for the sign "/", called a slash, forward slash, stroke, diagonal, right-leaning stroke, oblique dash, slant, separatrix, scratch comma, slaok, over, slak or whack?
57. In which country did the idea of Father Christmas coming down the chimney and leaving presents originate?
58. Which of these cards is different?
59. In Western films, what is a "saloon" ?
60. What airport was known as "Idlewild Airport" when planned in the late 1930s, was renamed "Major General Alexander E. Anderson Airport" when construction began in 1943, then "New York International Airport, Anderson Field" when flights began in 1948, had another name change in 1963?
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