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General Knowledge Quiz 216 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize?
2. Bob Fosse won a "Best Director" Oscar in 1972 for which film?
3. What genre is the masala film "Sholay" (1975), ranked top Indian film of all time in the 2002 British Film Institute's poll, and named the Best Film of 50 Years in the 2005 Filmfare Awards honouring Indian cinema?
4. What system was added in 1858 to boost communication via the transatlantic telegraph cable between the USA and the UK?
5. What is the name for the principle that "Anything that can go wrong, will-at the worst possible moment" ?
6. Traditionally, horses were kept in a what?
7. What is chalcedony?
8. Jerrymunglum is a name for a what?
9. With the exception of the last two segments, how many legs does a centipede have on each segment?
10. According to Greek legend, who was the muse of Music?
11. Where is the oldest whiskey distillery still operating, which was established in 1608?
12. What infectious disease, caused by a virus, is characterised by the eruption of successive crops of blisters?
13. What sport was reputedly introduced to England by the 10th Hussars in 1869?
14. Which of these was a song released by the Beatles in 1967?
15. The Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics published in 1910, 1912 and 1913, with a second edition In 1927, was co-written by Bertrand Russell and who else?
16. Which British boxer lost the WBA world lightweight title in 1972?
17. What, in relation to an eye, is sometimes called a haw?
18. The first of which make of car came off the assembly line at Fisherman's Bend in September 1948?
19. If something is described as picayune, what is meant?
20. Which is the third element on the periodic table?
21. Where did the University of Paris called "La Sorbonne" get its name from?
22. What is the next in the series 1, 4, 25, 676?
23. What large flightless bird found in Mauritius by the Portuguese is believed to have died out in 1681?
24. What cemetery near Sturgis, South Dakota, is associated with a gold rush, land wars, and a famous 19th century last stand?
25. Where is Glacier Bay National Park?
26. What are the names of the two daughters of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall that have embarked on modelling careers?
27. Who was the first artistic director of the National Theatre in London?
28. Which of these might you use if you were mountain climbing?
29. In March 2010, Brean Hammond of Nottingham University claimed that the play "Double Falsehood" by Lewis Theobald is based on the play "Cardenio", which was co-written by John Fletcher and whom?
30. "Well you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk" are lyrics from which song by the Bee Gees?
31. What is the result when NaCl and water are mixed at normal room temperature?
32. Where was the final of the 1999 Rugby World Cup held?
33. Which of these could not be described as "calico" ?
34. What did James Bond frequently ask for that was to be "shaken, not stirred" ?
35. Someone habitually dressed in ragged, worn clothing is sometimes described as "out at ..... " what?
36. Which would be most useful in observing the stars?
37. George Orwell wrote most of his bleak dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", published in 1949, while living on which lonely and bare island in the Inner Hebrides in the south west of Scotland?
38. Alice B. Toklas, who wrote a cook book which has not been out of print since it was first published in 1954 (the most famous recipe in it is "Hashish Fudge") was the life-partner of what American author?
39. Drakensberg is a name for an escarpment in what area?
40. Whose memoirs inspired and largely provided the basis for the UK television series "Call the Midwife" ?
41. What British television programme starring Stephen Fry, based in a small Norfolk town (where the local pub is called the "Startled Duck"), was cancelled after 3 series?
42. Which National Basketball Association (NBA) team won the 2019 Championship?
43. Which country owns most of the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego?
44. What does the "e" in Juice, the acronym for the mission launched on 14 April 2023 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, stand for?
45. Leo Joseph Ryan Jr., the first US congressman to be killed in the line of duty, was murdered where?
46. Malagasy is an official language of which country?
47. What was the colloquial name given to women volunteers to the US Navy during the second world war?
48. What excise levied from 1746 to 1845 in the UK resulted for a while in hollow-stemmed glasses?
49. Which band performed at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia in 2009 and in the halftime show of the Super Bowl in Miami Gardens, Florida in 2010?
50. Evidence has been found in which cave, that modern man (homo sapiens) may have reached South-East Asia at least 60, 000 years ago?
51. Which describes the climate of Sierra Leone in West Africa during most of the year?
52. What created fjords?
53. Who entered Studio 54 in New York City in 1977 for her 32nd birthday party on a white horse, resulting in publicity that established it as the preferred nightclub for celebrities?
54. Moshing refers to what?
55. A logarithmic spiral, frequently seen in natural phenomena and called spira mirabilis by Jacob Bernoulli in the 17th century, is characterised by what?
56. What was the first French settlement in North America?
57. In the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, and other French venues, where is the venue for the surfing competition?
58. What do the initials MCC, of a sports organisation founded in England in 1787, stand for?
59. The oldest commercial TV network in the UK is named what?
60. Which of these cities is closest to the ruins of Pompeii?
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