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General Knowledge Quiz 214 (60 MCQs)

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1. Seborrhea is a medical problem that affects which part of the body?
2. Since 2005, of whom or what does the name "Katrina" most often remind people in New Orleans, USA?
3. Which merchant seaman wrote poems, novels, plays and critical essays and became Poet Laureate in 1930?
4. Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England in which century?
5. Who was the youngest player to appear in a major league game in the modern era, pitching 2/3 of an inning for the Cincinnati Reds against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1944 when not quite 16 years old?
6. The vernacular is what?
7. Which religious movement and belief developed in 16th century Poland and Transylvania, and spread world-wide by the late 18th and early 19th centuries?
8. What is a common name for the United Nations peacekeeping forces?
9. Who won the Hockey Champions Challenge for Women played in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2009?
10. What was the tinned spiced ham made in the USA and imported to Britain during World War II?
11. Who was selected as Best Goalkeeper in the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships?
12. What is the term for intimate conversation in bed?
13. Who was appointed captain of Great Britain's Davis Cup team in 2006?
14. In Greek legend, which of these was Queen of the Amazons?
15. It has been ranked in the top 20 TV shows of all time in American pop culture, and ran in the US from 1987 to 1991, centring on a group of baby boomer yuppies. Which is it?
16. What was the first name of the painter Monet?
17. Who was the leader of the band playing at the Palomar Ballroom, Los Angeles, in August 1935, when the "Jitterbug" became a new dance craze?
18. In 2016 Japan introduced legislation to allow camera monitor systems to replace a car's what?
19. Which of these is not an official language of Switzerland?
20. The Kodiak bear is native to which continent?
21. In literature, what is the word for a person, or a group of people who oppose the main character, or the main characters (in simple terms, "the villain")?
22. Which of these is a type of necklace?
23. In which sea is the British overseas territory of Montserrat?
24. The islands of Funen, Zealand, Bornholm, Lolland, Falster, Mors and Langeland belong to which nation?
25. Britain's second-longest-running TV serial has been running, as at the end of 2015, for how many years?
26. The film "Singin' in the Rain" served at least partly as a means of showcasing and giving longer life to songs written for MGM films during 1929 to 1939 by whom?
27. Izanagi and Izanami are part of the creation mythology of what country?
28. What is the subject of the "Roman de la Rose" written in the 13th and 14th centuries?
29. Who of these are native to the northern hemisphere?
30. What is unusual about the Saint Pierre and Miquelon Islands, which are only 25 km (16 miles) south of Newfoundland?
31. The devastating volcanic events in the area known as the Siberian Traps happened about how many years ago?
32. In April 2009, who was found guilty of the murder of Lana Clarkson?
33. What is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, Canada?
34. What was the title of Martin Scorsese's 2008 documentary about the Rolling Stones?
35. What is commemorated in Great Britain by Trafalgar Day every 21 October, and by the name of Trafalgar Square in London?
36. Why did the original Globe Theatre in London burn to the ground in 1613 during a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII when the theatre's roof ignited?
37. What was the surname of English 20th century siblings:Edith, a poetess who led a movement in contemporary poetry, Osbert, the author of poems, satires, novels and essays, and Sacheverell, an author of books on history and travel?
38. What NZ thoroughbred racehorse, foaled in 1925 by the brood mare Marsa and the sire of Phar Lap, was the first horse to win both the Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate in the same year?
39. Who is thought to have first invented gunpowder?
40. Which is one of the most prominent landmarks of the city of Abuja in Nigeria?
41. What connects one of the symbols of the Lillehammer Winter Olympics 1994, and two Norwegian teenagers on the island of Tro, Norway, in 2016?
42. What is a small ceramic dish used for baking an individual portion?
43. In 1990 the World Weightlifting Championships were run separately for men and women for the last time. Where were they held?
44. Malagasy is the language spoken by the indigenous people of what country?
45. Founded in 914 CE by the Vikings who built on the banks of the River Suir, and with Reginald's Tower as its most recognisable landmark, what is the oldest city in the Republic of Ireland?
46. In cartography, the method by which a spherical shape is represented as a rectangle was invented by whom?
47. An internationally recognised activist for freedom of information, is Julian who?
48. Which physicist wrote "A Brief History of Time" ?
49. The wreck of which warship, one of the largest in the English navy of King Henry VIII in the first half of the 16th century, was rediscovered in 1971 and salvaged in October 1982?
50. What is the shortest-serving capital in the current states of the USA?
51. What was the name of the Liverpool club where the Beatles played in the early 1960s?
52. What is the name of the stadium in The Bronx in New York City which was the home baseball park of the New York Yankees from 1923 to 2008?
53. What field is Albert Einstein best known for working in?
54. Which of these, sporting large backward-curving horns, is a bearded mountain goat from Eurasia and northern Africa?
55. Which Irish artist was lead singer of an Irish rock band from 1990 to 2003 when the band dissolved for the first time?
56. Which world leaders shared fish and chips in a London pub in 2003?
57. To what does the term "radiology" refer?
58. What does the "A" stand for in the abbreviation "PDA", that refers to a small computer that has the ability to connect to the internet?
59. Which Irish-born philanthropist founded over 112 institutions for deprived children in the last half of the 19th century?
60. The Rocky Mountains stretch over 3, 000 miles from New Mexico to where?
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