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General Knowledge Quiz 213 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of these people is known for dance?
2. What were the logo and mascots for the Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver, Canada, inspired by?
3. Who is the next in this series:Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Max Schmeling, Jack Sharkey, Primo Carnera, ..... ?
4. Which member of the UK Parliament and member of the IRA died on hunger strike while in prison at The Maze near Belfast in 1981?
5. King Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 when an arrow went into what part of his body?
6. What tag does the actor who plays Claire, high school student Alex's initial romantic interest in "Alex Strangelove" (2018), have attached to her entry in Wikipedia?
7. In which form of fencing contest do the competitors wear a sleeveless lamé?
8. What is the official language in Guyana, on the South America mainland and on the southern limits of the Caribbean?
9. In which country was the first 24 hour race for motor cars held on a closed course, in 1907?
10. Where is the Macaronesia Region?
11. In Victorian England, what was a "reticule" ?
12. When was the 1 mile running race discontinued at the Olympic Games?
13. Which Australian city do the natives call "Freo" ?
14. Applying a glue preparation or gesso to a canvas before painting is known as what?
15. Which common household omnivore is known to eat book bindings, carpet, clothing, coffee, dandruff, glue, hair, some paints, paper, photos, plaster, sugar, wallpaper paste, cotton, dead insects, linen, silk, and their own moulted skins?
16. When was the gambling casino, Monte Carlo, first opened in Monaco?
17. Which of these is the only vertebrate to have been discovered so far to have lungs but no windpipe (trachea)?
18. What 1936 film, starring, written, directed and scored by Charlie Chaplin, comments on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression?
19. What is the next in the series:Antwerp; Paris; Amsterdam; Los Angeles?
20. What was the name of the country in west Africa which, in 1975, was re-named "The People's Republic of Benin" ?
21. The Atacama area on the Pacific coast of South America is best characterised as what?
22. Who wrote "Robinson Crusoe" ?
23. Which is the nearest country to the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon?
24. Where does the River Isis, which rises in the Cotswolds in the UK, reach the sea?
25. "The Kiss" is a 1907 painting by whom?
26. What abbreviation is used to refer to a General Practitioner?
27. Which car maker has marketed models called Passat and Golf?
28. The Oregon Treaty of 1846, which divided "the Oregon Country" along the 49th parallel, gave the USA land which later became parts of Montana and Wyoming, and the states of Washington, Oregon and which other?
29. In the Christian biblical quotation, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a what than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God?
30. Porcupine grass is also known as what?
31. What astronomical instrument was used in Classical Antiquity and through the medieval Islamic world, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by astronomers, navigators, and astrologers to locate and predict the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars, determine local time or latitude, for surveying and to cast horoscopes?
32. Which of these British science fiction TV programmes was the first to start transmission?
33. Which of these countries became independent in the twentieth century first?
34. Which of these is at one end of the Suez Canal?
35. What are usually found in an aquarium?
36. Brian Lochore was coach to the New Zealand team in the first World Cup in 1987 for what sport?
37. In 1944 Iceland ended its political connection with Denmark, abolished its monarchy, and established itself as a republic, following what?
38. Which city held the 2012 Summer Olympics, making it the first city to host the Games three times?
39. Concentric circles on the sea floor near Japan, about 2 m (7 ft) in diameter with intricate ridged radial lines and valleys of sand, are what?
40. Which event in late 2022 devastated the Cayman Islands, Cuba and south east USA?
41. In the USA in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt formed the Progressive Party when he lost the Republican nomination to William Howard Taft. What was the party also known as?
42. Which Jewish festival, celebrated over the 14th and 15th of the Hebrew month of Adar (approximately March in the Gregorian calendar), is to commemorate the preservation of the Jews in Persia from the destruction threatened by Haman?
43. The island of Réunion, in the Mascarene Islands and an overseas department and region of France, is closest to which other country to its west?
44. What would munition normally be?
45. What is the word for a literary work that imitates another style or artist?
46. What are Toyosu in Tokyo, La Nueva Viga in Mexico, Mercamadrid in Spain, and Feskekôrka in Sweden?
47. A "tip off" is the start of each game in which sport?
48. What were the championships known as USSR vs. Rest of the World in 1970 and 1984?
49. What is a trug usually used for?
50. Who coined the expression "portmanteau words" for words made from combinations of other words, such as "brunch" ?
51. What are krugerrands made of?
52. Who composed the 1723 suite for wind instruments known as the Water Music?
53. What did the 1985 Accord signed by the US and four other nations at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in November apply to?
54. Where is the term "gongoozler" most often used?
55. Henry Croft, an orphan street sweeper who collected money for charity, is associated with what organised charitable tradition of working class culture in London, England?
56. Ninette de Valois was involved professionally in what activity?
57. What is a "chapman" ?
58. Which partly fictional book published in the late nineteenth century is based on a two-week holiday on an English river?
59. What state, earlier known as the Bohemian Kingdom and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time of the Empire's dissolution at the end of World War I, was formed in 1918?
60. What does the Bermuda Bowl, offered since 1950, take its name from?
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