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General Knowledge Quiz 222 (60 MCQs)

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1. What was the subtitle of the Beatles song "Norwegian Wood" ?
2. What machine devised to move people was first demonstrated in Paris in 1900?
3. In February 2009, 38 year old Eluana Englaro, at Lecco, North of Milan, was newsworthy for doing what since January 1992?
4. The marshmallow was first created as a medicinal substance when extracts from what part of the marsh mallow plant were used as a remedy for sore throats?
5. Portuguese rule of which country ended in 1975, with the appointment of Samora Machel as its first president?
6. In 1853 while working on the synthesis and properties of various acid anhydrides, French chemist Charles Frederic Gerhardt made acetylsalicylic acid by mixing acetyl chloride with a sodium salt of salicylic acid (sodium salicylate). He called the resulting compound "salicylic-acetic anhydride" . What was this preparation later marketed as?
7. Which of these is a popular ball game?
8. Which branch of botany is concerned with grasses?
9. Banff National Park and Jasper National Park, which are connected by the Icefields Parkway, are in which Canadian province?
10. A glockenspiel, a percussion instrument with tuned metal keys arranged like a piano keyboard, gets its name from German. Roughly what does it mean?
11. Who sang on a record released in November 2010, "Boom boom boom, even brighter than the moon moon moon" ?
12. Who led a team to make the Cumberland Gap, a way through the Appalachian Mountains, accessible to pioneers, who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee?
13. Where can pieces move in the game of go?
14. Which of these is a disc used for a throwing and catching game?
15. Who is the next in this series:Muhammad Naguib, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Muhammad Naguib, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar El Sadat, Sufi Abu Taleb, Hosni Mubarak, Atef Ebeid ..... ?
16. What is the annual Wyoming event known as Cheyenne Frontier Days?
17. The term "musket" strictly refers to a firearm with what?
18. Where are grackles, or grakles, most usually found?
19. What is hopping from site to site on the internet called?
20. What is the highest mountain in Austria?
21. In 1982 the City of Edinburgh, British Airways Flight 9, was the first commercial flight to discover the effects of what?
22. Where are gelada native?
23. What does the "E" stand for in UNESCO?
24. Which of these is an alkali metal?
25. Quadrille, a popular card game in the 18th century, is for four players with a deck of how many?
26. In June 2009 American neuroscientist Dr Gary Arendash claimed to have evidence that drinking a few cups of coffee a day could prevent or reverse the effects of what?
27. "Silverback" is the name given to a dominant male what?
28. Where is it believed that fireworks were invented?
29. What substance in the human body causes blood vessels to dilate when released as part of an allergic reaction?
30. What is traditionally written in a ledger?
31. With how many pieces does each player start a game of Backgammon?
32. Who wrote the books "Fourplay" (published in 2001), "The Ex Files" (2003), "dot.homme" (2004), "Second Wives Club" (2005) and "Love @ First Site" (2005)?
33. What famous fictional character's name means "pine eye" ?
34. What fictional ship, with black hull and sails, was originally named "Wicked Wench" ?
35. Which famous singer released her first song in 1981 at the age of 12?
36. Which standard recurring character Batman comic book character did not appear in the film "Batman" (1989) nor "Batman Returns" (1992), but was in "Batman Forever" (1995) and "Batman & Robin" (1997)?
37. Which film, released at the end of 2008, was directed by Ron Howard and starred Michael Sheen and Frank Langella?
38. Ceramic items are made from what material?
39. Which of these was an heiress to a publishing fortune who became internationally famous in 1974 when, following her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), she joined them to further their cause?
40. What is the second northernmost state of the USA on the Pacific coast?
41. The Orinoco River in Guyana, Venezuela and Colombia is home to which critically endangered species?
42. What is the name for the inherent property of matter to retain its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by external forces?
43. The 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich became internationally memorable for what?
44. Which was the first city in the southern hemisphere and the second in the world after Philadelphia to integrate electric street lights into its infrastructure in September 1882?
45. Which of these was painted by Claude Monet in 1891?
46. Where was the race horse Phar Lap, who was bred in New Zealand and trained in Australia and whose string of successes made him an icon in Depression-laden Australia during his short career, when he died suddenly at the age of 5 and a half in 1932?
47. For what are neums, or neumes, used?
48. Michael J Fox played which character in the "Back to the Future" trilogy (1985-1990)?
49. Umberto II was the last king of which country?
50. How many times has croquet been an Olympic sport?
51. Which of these cities is the furthest from London?
52. What, due to happenings in the 1960s and 1970s, became known as the Yellow Fleet?
53. In conditions where oxygen is in short supply the East African naked mole rat can switch from metabolising the usual source of energy to metabolising what other source?
54. In which sport is there a hog line, and sometimes a hogger?
55. The electrically neutral particle known as a neutrino has three forms which partner with similar but charged particles. Which is NOT one of those charged particles?
56. What is the capital of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada?
57. Where is South Georgia Island?
58. How many different countries does the 4, 370 km (2, 715 mi) Congo River run through or border?
59. Which Bob Dylan song begins "You got a lotta nerveTo say you are my friend. When I was down, You just stood there grinning" ?
60. Which of these is north of the equator?
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