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General Knowledge Quiz 223 (60 MCQs)

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1. When was the first road speed limit set in the UK for powered vehicles?
2. The "A" in "AGM" stands for what sort of General Meeting?
3. The first European scientific observation of a transit of Venus (when Venus passes between the Sun and Earth, and can be seen as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun) was made by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree in England in what year?
4. Which British long running (27 years) police TV drama that began in 1983 ended in 2010?
5. From 1985 onwards, Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the policies of "glasnost" and "perestroika" in an attempt to modernise the country. What do these two words mean?
6. Since 14 November 2007, from where do "Eurostar" trains leave London for Paris?
7. Where did the family live who were at the heart of the first book written and illustrated by English writer and illustrator Eve Garnett (1900-1991)?
8. What mathematical tabular system was developed and promoted in 1614 by John Napier that changes calculations of, for example, multiplication and finding square roots to addition and division respectively?
9. What can polygonal number theory apply to?
10. What play was recommended by the Pulitzer Prize committee for the Best Play in 1963, but rejected by the Pulitzer board due to the play's perceived vulgarity?
11. What is ice shinny?
12. Where are St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel?
13. What name was given to the statues dating from 210 BCE, which include warriors, chariots, horses, officials, acrobats, strongmen, and musicians belonging to Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China, discovered in 1974 by local farmers near Xi'an?
14. Netflix's 2022 true crime documentary "The Tinder Swindler" centres on what?
15. Which of these is a tropical fruit?
16. What is the currency in Nicaragua?
17. What scale is used for rating tornado intensity, based on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation?
18. Which American trumpeter and composer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1997, the first time it had been awarded for a jazz recording?
19. Harvard University is in which state of the USA?
20. What does the "M" stand for in the name FOMEX, the exhibition inaugurated by Saudi Arabia in 2023 to accompany the Arab Radio and TV Festival?
21. What is an apocalypse, in its original meaning?
22. Which 2001 musical film based on the Orphean myth and on Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" stars Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman?
23. He led the Kuomintang for five decades, was born in Zhejiang on the east coast of China and died in Taipei; who was he?
24. In what region do the Sahel droughts occur?
25. From 1935 to 1946, the Philippines was officially called The Commonwealth of the Philippines when the country was a commonwealth of which nation?
26. What is a Benioff, or Wadati-Benioff, zone likely to have?
27. The Parcel de Manuel Luís Marine State Park protects a major coral reef system off what coast?
28. What is the next line of the 1960s hit song for the New Christy Minstrels: "Green, green, it's green they say, on the far side of the hill. Green, green, I'm going away" ?
29. Who became the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, as the result of a by-election in 1919?
30. Jim Carrey played which character in the 2004 film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" ?
31. In the 1908 Olympics, Jay Gould from the USA won a gold medal for competing in which sport?
32. Which of these is the name of the 3 time Academy Award-winning anthropomorphic Tuxedo cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons?
33. Where is the Sea of Smyth?
34. "Wild geese" was the name given to soldiers who fought as mercenaries in continental armies in the 16th to 18th centuries who were from which country?
35. In 1847, obstetrician James Young Simpson, head of midwifery at Edinburgh Hospital/University, first used what anaesthetic, for general anaesthesia during childbirth?
36. What name is given to the potential difference measured across a conductor of 1 ohm resistance when current of 1 ampere is flowing?
37. Which of these US TV series is not based on a UK TV series?
38. In a film script, what do the letters ECU mean?
39. To end The War of 1812, the USA and Great Britain signed which treaty on 24 December 1814?
40. Soccer player Dennis Bergkamp was well known for his fear of what?
41. Which of these is an element, the chemical symbol for which is "O" ?
42. What relationship was Icarus to Daedalus?
43. What is a name applied to the four archipelagos of Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores?
44. Among the hyped contests in world boxing was the match in October 2021 between heavyweight WBC ex-champion (2015-2020) Diontay Wilder and whom?
45. Which is the participle in the sentence "he brought the required documents" ?
46. What is the more common name of the disease called consumption?
47. The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) was fought between which two countries?
48. In BASE jumping what words does the acronym stand for?
49. LeBron James has won how many Olympic medals in basketball?
50. What invention in the 17th century revolutionized mathematics by providing the first systematic link between Euclidean geometry and algebra, describing geometric shapes as algebraic equations involving the coordinates of the points lying on it?
51. What character was played by Ronnie Barker in the TV series "Open All Hours" ?
52. In 1976 or 1977, John Carpenter and Debra Hill began drafting a story titled "The Babysitter Murders", which eventually became what film?
53. What festival is known as Yom Kippur?
54. When was the first (and so far only) time a whole season of a sport in the USA was cancelled because of a labour dispute?
55. In 1935 and 1937, Danish-Norwegian Caroline Mikkelsen and Norwegian Ingrid Christensen became the first women to do what?
56. Where did retired three-time World Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali light the Olympic flame?
57. What is the name of the stretch of water between India and Sri Lanka?
58. In September 2022 two major gas-carrying pipes under the Baltic Sea did what?
59. Many of the characters' names in what 2014 UK TV crime drama, set in Northern Ireland, are inspired by brands of guitars?
60. What is the real first name of the pop star Madonna?
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