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General Knowledge Quiz 224 (60 MCQs)

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1. How many geographic Poles are there related to the planet Earth?
2. Where are the ski slopes of Cerro Castor (Castor Mount)?
3. What name is primarily used in British English for red wine from the Bordeaux region of France?
4. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, once managing director of the International Monetary Fund and a candidate for election as President of France, was dogged with accusations of what?
5. What is the highest mountain on the continent of Australia?
6. Altogether, how many strings are there on the four instruments in a traditional string quartet?
7. What is the family name of the North Korean head of state?
8. Which is the longest of these wild cats, measured from head to base of tail?
9. Where is the Rwenzori mountain range?
10. Which British Prime Minister introduced "the welfare state" to the UK?
11. Which of these was NOT a country that fought against Great Britain during the US War of Independence?
12. What was the occupation of Rick Grimes prior to the coma from which he wakes to find most of the world's people are now zombies, in the TV series "The Walking Dead" (2010-now)?
13. Piles is a familiar word for what medical condition?
14. What word describes the situation where someone has to choose between two difficulties, and to choose either would have an equally unpleasant outcome?
15. What are the first words of The Gettysburg Address, a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War?
16. What is the world's largest international hospitality education institution with 29 schools on 5 continents?
17. The national holiday celebrated in the USA on 4 July each year is to commemorate events surrounding which war?
18. The hero of which film starring Alec Guinness was a mousy bank clerk with steel-rimmed glasses and bowler hat who devised a plan to smuggle gold bars out of England disguised as small souvenir replicas of the Eiffel Tower?
19. How many tusks does a typical adult male walrus have?
20. The capital of the U S A, Washington, DC, is bordered by Maryland and which other state?
21. During the period from the 12th to 15th centuries CE, what was the land from the Gulf of Finland in the west to the northern Ural Mountains in the east (including the Lake Ladoga regions of modern Russia) known as?
22. Which of these is a musical that tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams?
23. Which American comedy TV series that ran for eleven seasons to 1993 and was set in a Boston bar, was created by James Burrows, Glen Charles and Les Charles?
24. Which of these is a jumping toy for children?
25. Which state did the first African American elected to the US Senate serve?
26. Where do the Berg winds blow?
27. What does the Federation Internationale de Natation administer?
28. What is the name for a device that measures the rate of rotation of a revolving shaft?
29. Which hormone controls the female reproductive cycle?
30. A word opposite in meaning to another in the same language is called what?
31. In 2011 the Classic Brit Awards named who as "Artist of the Decade" ?
32. The initials "FDC" are connected with what activity?
33. Who recorded the theme songs for three James Bond films?
34. Which of these British Prime Ministers was the oldest when first elected?
35. After about eight centuries of occupation by various countries Latvia declared independence, just after the World War I armistice in 1918, from what country?
36. In mediaeval western Europe what did the term "villein" mean?
37. At what were the Allies and the US aiming in their Operation Market Garden in 1944 in World War II?
38. What characteristic do bezoars, coprolites and gorochana have in common?
39. The highest and the lowest temperatures in South America since the beginning of the 20th century were both recorded in which country?
40. What machine was invented by Professor Auguste Picard for scientific exploration?
41. In which film did Peter Capaldi, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Nicole Kidman, and Ben Whishaw, feature?
42. Which best describes the term "Mount Fujiyama" ?
43. Who was crowned King of Scotland in 1306 and defeated the forces of Edward II at Bannockburn in 1314?
44. Which song begins with this lyric "There she was just a-walkin' down the street" ?
45. What does a vexillographer design?
46. What were the Provisions of Oxford in 1258?
47. What is an earlier name for the city of Harare?
48. What is the chartered city, both a city and a state, where the African Union, and its predecessor the OAU, is based as well as the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and other continental and international organisations?
49. Which of these was a slang term for policemen in 19th century Britain?
50. Simon Rattle and Sir Thomas Beecham are associated with what activity?
51. Which was the first of these Disney films to be released?
52. What is the basic gauge most commonly used for both still photography and motion pictures?
53. With which sport is O J Simpson associated?
54. Nigeria and Ethiopia produce the majority of the world's what?
55. What is the duration of each half of a "rugby sevens" game in minutes, when played in the IRB Sevens World Series?
56. Who or what is the head of the Temps Commission's Board of Directors in Netflix's superhero series "The Umbrella Academy" ?
57. What is the name for the pieces of wood that sit on top of cricket wickets?
58. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979?
59. What is or are Araucaria?
60. Who was the Greek goddess of wisdom, war and the liberal arts?
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