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General Knowledge Quiz 225 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the overall name for a branch of applied mathematics used to study behaviour in strategic situations, in which an individual's success in making choices depends on the choices of others?
2. From where on the body does the Leopard slug extrude its reproductive organ when mating?
3. In which state of Australia would you find the area known as Kimberley?
4. When was the phrase "under God" included in the American Pledge of Allegiance?
5. Tierra del Fuego sits in the southernmost curl of which continent?
6. When war was declared on Germany on 3 September 1939, at the start of what was to become World War II, who were the Allies?
7. Who has been a game show host on US television for "The Neighbors" (1975), "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (from 1999), "Who Wants to Be a Super Millionaire" (from 2004), "America's Got Talent" (2006) and "Million Dollar Password" (2008 to 2009)?
8. The administrative units of Pakistan are:a federal capital territory, two autonomous and disputed territories, a group of federally administered tribal areas, and four provinces. Which of these is one of the provinces?
9. What was created by the Lateran Treaty signed by Italy in 1929?
10. Which of these is a variety of leather?
11. What is the official language of Liechtenstein?
12. Who was on the British throne when Balmoral Castle was bought for their use?
13. Which 20th century US novelist wrote "Of Mice and Men", "The Grapes of Wrath" and "East of Eden" ?
14. Who was the heroine who rescued 9 people from the wreck of the "Forfarshire", taking them to the lighthouse on the Longstone, one of the Farne Islands, on 7 September 1838?
15. Which of these items of the British crown jewels is the most recent?
16. In what kind of building would a nave be found?
17. The reporter and amateur detective Rouletabille appears in a series of novels by which author?
18. What is dysplasia?
19. What purpose were the Thames Embankments in London, UK, built to serve?
20. Who, in 1842, became the first US President's wife to die in the White House?
21. Talk-show host Jack Paar once welcomed which actress to The Tonight Show by saying, "Here they are, ..... ", that became the title of her biography by Raymond Strait
22. A cummerbund is worn on which part of the body?
23. The Messel Pit was bought by the state of Hesse, Germany, and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 as being the single best site for plant and animal fossils from which period?
24. Which of these was the title of a 1966 play by Joe Orton?
25. Tāufaʻāhau I, later known as George Tupou I, finally united what country under his rule in 1852?
26. In 1884 Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical "Humanum Genus", which denounced a number of beliefs and practices such as popular sovereignty and the separation of church and state, in relation to which group in particular?
27. What is the tang of a chisel?
28. What is it called when all the pins fall on the first bowl of an Indoor Bowling game?
29. Who was jailed for 150 years in June 2009 for investor fraud after being reported to federal authorities by his sons?
30. British scientist Silvanus Thompson (1851-1916), a professor of Physics, talented lecturer and writer, recognised authority in electricity, magnetism and acoustics and the first President of the British Institute of Radiology, developed what in 1891?
31. What was the fate of Lucia di Lammermoor in Donizetti's opera?
32. Bodyboarding was recorded among Hawaiians when?
33. What was the title of Kylie Minogue's tenth album, released in 2007?
34. What is the name of the blocks that support rails for railway tracks?
35. What word is used in relation to an aircraft moving around an airport?
36. Who was the Cornish inventor who is famous for building a high pressure non-condensing steam engine for general industrial use in 1797, and in 1801 for building a steam car that carried passengers?
37. Who wrote the piece of music recognised in much of the Western world as "The Wedding March" ?
38. Which of these is an inlet in the East Coast of North America?
39. In 1960, who became the first film star to receive $ 1 million for a single picture?
40. The flag of which of these countries consists only of horizontal bars?
41. Which is one of the causes of auroras (polar lights)?
42. What shape are the standard pieces in a Chinese Checkers game?
43. Where is the Sea of William Henry Smyth?
44. In what sport does one "play the ball" by rolling it back to a dummy half?
45. What sport does Jo-Wilfried Tsonga specialise in?
46. Thomas de Torquemada is famous for his part in what?
47. Which of these phrases means "wealthy" ?
48. An opthalmologist treats disorders of what part of the body?
49. What most immediately inspired the Commission, set up in 1953, which produced the immense Delta Works project?
50. What alloy is made of 12% tin and 88% copper?
51. Where is the Laccadive, or Lakshadweep, Sea?
52. Which American rock, folk, and alt-country singer/songwriter, a three-time Grammy Award winner, was named "America's best songwriter" by TIME magazine in 2002?
53. Which British sitcom was retitled "Good Neighbors" when it played in the United States?
54. Who wrote the novel "Guy Mannering or The Astrologer", which, though published anonymously in 1815, sold out the first edition on the first day of publication?
55. When was Berlin's Tegel Airport first given its time-saving hexagonal terminal complex, and substantially increased in capacity, function, international use and runway length?
56. Who backed Jimi Hendrix in The Jimi Hendrix Experience as bassist and drummer?
57. What is the nickname of Apsley House, the former London residence of the Dukes of Wellington, that stands alone at Hyde Park Corner on the south-east corner of Hyde Park?
58. What is the scientific study of plate tectonics and seabed geology, ocean currents, waves and geophysical fluid dynamics, and fluxes of chemical substances and physical properties within an ocean and across its boundaries?
59. The Misses World for both 1999 and 2000 represented which country?
60. In 1508-9 the British-born Venetian explorer Sebastian Cabot led one of the first European expeditions to the north of North America to find what?
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