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General Knowledge Quiz 220 (60 MCQs)

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1. The Empire State Building has how many stories above ground?
2. The fictional paradise Shangri-La was introduced in which book?
3. Where is Lake Paranoá?
4. During his visit in May 2009, the Pope was urged to complain about the state of what landmark between Israel and Jordan?
5. In December 2010, Continental Airlines was found criminally responsible for which airline disaster by a Parisian court and was fined €200, 000 and ordered to pay Air France €1 million, while Continental mechanic John Taylor was given a 15-month suspended sentence?
6. What is the name of a New Zealand comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement who created a radio series for BBC Radio 2 in 2004 and began a television series for HBO in the USA in 2007?
7. Which associations of men in similar employment, started in the 12th century, were formed to assist poorer members, sometime securing charters and becoming the governing body of a town?
8. What is the ocean current that flows from Florida to Europe?
9. The Golden Raspberry Awards have been running since 1980. Who had won the award for Worst Supporting Actress the most times until 2005?
10. If you asked a question such as "What is that?" and were told "A wigwam for a goose's bridle", what should be your response?
11. What part of the human body does carpal tunnel syndrome affect?
12. Championship dragon boat racing calls for a specialised long boat, a team of paddlers (typically 20), a sweeper to steer and which other of these?
13. What actor had the title role in the film "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" ?
14. Which of these Scottish Whiskies is from the Speyside region?
15. Who was the Venetian who made a number of journeys to China and India in the 13th century and was later taken prisoner by the Genoese?
16. Canada is divided into how many provinces and how many territories?
17. What is the Japanese drink aojiru usually made from?
18. Which country's territory includes a long narrow east-west tongue separating Zambia from Botswana?
19. What is a word for a computer user's representation of themselves, usually in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games?
20. Who created the character Jesse Stone in a series of 9 detective novels?
21. "Love is the Bin" by Banksy was originally called what?
22. What adjective is usually applied to an owl?
23. Which country, and its leader, hosted the 1936 Summer and Winter Olympics?
24. Which of these is in a time zone which is 45 minutes offset from Universal Time?
25. "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" and "Factory Girls" are plays by whom?
26. Ashkenazic and Sephardic are the two divisions of what cultire?
27. Where are Kombu and Irish Moss found?
28. Who wrote "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" ?
29. The first three rounds of the 2009/2010 season for which world championship were cancelled, and eventually the championship itself?
30. Which of the Marx Brothers appeared in their vaudeville act, but not in any of their films?
31. What is "bergamot" ?
32. Bumblebees of the subgenus Bombus Psithyrus raise their young in what way?
33. What is tumbleweed?
34. By 1988 Switzerland finally shelved plans to develop what?
35. The name "Subbuteo" is most associated with a table-top version of what game?
36. In which area was part or all of the Dakar Rally run from 2009 to 2019?
37. Pedology is the study of what?
38. Doklam Plateau is disputed border territory between the Kingdom of Bhutan and which other country?
39. Sake is fermented from what?
40. What is a patella?
41. What is the "proper name" for the main character in a series of novels by John Updike, who is nicknamed "Rabbit" ?
42. Which of these plays by Shakespeare was set in Italy?
43. Which 17th century composer wrote the opera "L'Orfeo" ?
44. What was one of the ways in which Romulus established Rome?
45. Which building was attacked at the start of the French Revolution on 14 July 1789 because it was symbolic of injustice?
46. Where would you find the metatarsal bone?
47. Which Olympic sport is currently competed to represent skills needed by cavalry behind enemy lines?
48. The Zambezi River flows into the Indian Ocean from where?
49. What navigation canal, when it opened in 1894, was the world's largest, and, now the 8th longest in the world, is still operating?
50. The line of emperors on the throne of Ethiopia, the last of which was Haile Selassie, traced their descent from whom?
51. What Hollywood actor appeared as a child in Elvis Presley's film "It Happened at the World's Fair" in 1963, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special for the TV film "Elvis" (1979), provided Elvis's voice for a scene in "Forrest Gump" (1994) and was an Elvis impersonator in "3000 Miles to Graceland" (2001)?
52. What do mongers do?
53. Which team did Brett Favre play for in the NFL in 2010?
54. Which country has the same name as a state of the USA?
55. Which of these is not a surname of a member of the group "Peter, Paul, and Mary" ?
56. What playwright was jailed for stealing and defacing books from the Islington Library?
57. Which of these is a stadium in Washington DC?
58. In the early stages of which Olympic sport would you hear the words "en garde" ?
59. Andrea Jaeger of the US had a successful career in professional tennis, becoming World Ranked number 2, between the ages of 15 and 19, but it ended prematurely due to major shoulder injuries. What profession did she take up in 2006?
60. What fictional Chinese-American detective, created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1923 for a novel published in 1925, was the subject of over 45 films made between 1926 and 1981?
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