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General Knowledge Quiz 229 (60 MCQs)

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1. The names of how many US states begin with "M" ?
2. What name is given to the declaration of aims and policies of a political party before an election?
3. Who is the Egyptian princess, the competing love interest to Aida in the Verdi opera of that name?
4. Since the first World Championship for Golf Croquet (singles), in 1996, players from which country have been represented most as champions and runners-up?
5. Which of these are sacred Hindu books, of which there are around 160, wherein teachings are mostly in the form of conversations between Shiva and Durga?
6. To qualify for entry in the Iditarod Trail sled dog race a musher must have completed one of a number of stringent sled dog races or trials, and what else?
7. What term, used by US President George W. Bush in November 2002, came to refer to the countries who supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent military presence in post-invasion Iraq since 2003?
8. What object was unveiled outside John Lennon Airport, Liverpool, in 2005?
9. Before the capital of Japan was established in present day Kyoto by the Heian Emperor Kanmu in 794 CE, where was the previous capital?
10. Which is the youngest of these New Zealand actresses?
11. This actor left their country of birth at 4, won an Oscar at the age of 11 with a film from the country they moved to, moved to the USA at the age of 13 and continued to win awards in film or television. What was their country of birth?
12. The ship Andrea Gail features in which 1997 book and 2000 film?
13. Who perfected a process in 1880 for making sensitive gelatine dry plates for photography, and patented photographic roll film in 1884?
14. Which state of the USA is divided into 64 parishes in the same way that 48 of the other states are divided into counties?
15. In what country is the Phinda Game Reserve, which includes some of the world's rare sand forest?
16. The song "Send In The Clowns" is from which musical?
17. In the second US series of "The Office", the boss says that New York is so great that they named it twice. What did he say was the other name?
18. The Czechoslovakian composer Anton Dvorák was most proficient in which instrument?
19. What was the Second League of Armed Neutrality (or the League of the North) formed in 1800 or 1801, designed to do?
20. To refer to a venture or investment as copper-bottomed means what?
21. Which of these islands is a territory of Australia?
22. The second largest river, by discharge, runs mainly through which country?
23. What is meant by "vox populi" ?
24. To the northern end of the Great Rift Valley in Africa lies Lake Tanganyika, to the southern end is ..... ?
25. What is the word for a male swan?
26. What is the title of Geri Halliwell's 1999 autobiography?
27. Adriano De Souza, Joel Parkinson, Adam Robertson, Bobby Martinez, Kelly Slater, Damien Hobgood, Mick Fanning, Dane Reynolds, Bede Durbidge, Chris Davidson & Taj Burrow are or have been international competitors in what sport?
28. Sudan's neighbours are South Sudan, Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya and which other country?
29. Who wrote "The Prince and the Pauper" and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" ?
30. Which of these US states does not have coastline directly facing the Atlantic Ocean?
31. Who created the work "A Thousand Years", consisting of a cow's head, maggots and an insect electrocutor?
32. In various languages, they are gatitos, gatinhos, gattini, chatons and katzchen. What are they in English?
33. "The World Series" has been the annual championship series of the highest level of professional players of which sport in the USA and Canada since 1903?
34. An experiment set up in 1927 by Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and still current in 2014 was designed to demonstrate what?
35. What does the US television series "Elementary" centre on?
36. What word means staying in one place and electrical interference?
37. The Kalahari Desert in Africa stretches across South Africa, Botswana and which other country?
38. How old was Hannah Baker, the protagonist of the Netflix-developed drama "13 Reasons Why", when she killed herself?
39. Which of these wrote under the reign of Richard II, King of England?
40. What caused difficulties for the 1928 Winter Olympics?
41. Which 15th century Portuguese navigator discovered the sea route around the Cape of Good Hope?
42. In any version of the TV series "Law & Order", the opening credits start with the actors playing what parts?
43. The northern-most point of which of these countries is the furthest north?
44. Ahmet Ertegun, who was born in Turkey and died in 2006 aged 83 in New York City, USA, was a founder of the New York Cosmos team of the North American Soccer League and which record label?
45. In what is a York round used in competition?
46. Prague is known to its residents as what?
47. What is the aim of the game played in the UK called Bingo?
48. What was first marked on 26 November 1789 in the new USA as a nation-wide celebration?
49. Shove ha'penny has been a game popular in pubs and with kings. What is a ha'penny?
50. Argentina invaded UK's Falkland Islands, Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, Canada became officially independent of the UK, Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the USSR, died, all in what year?
51. Queen Margrethe II of the Kingdom of Denmark is commonly called "the queen" in Danish, which is ..... ?
52. What other name is given to the sea known historically by people in Greece as the Euxine?
53. In 2022, the central-eastern Parana-La Plata Basin in South America is suffering its worst what since 1944?
54. Which painters aim to convey a state of mind rather than create a realistic representation, such as El Greco, Bosch, Goya, Grunewald and Munch?
55. On June 23, 2016, which organisation met with the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, in Havana?
56. Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County are all in the north west of which US state?
57. What is an abacus-like finger counting method used to perform basic mathematical operations, by which it is possible to display all numbers from 0 to 99 with both hands?
58. What does the classification "K-1" mean in canoe competition?
59. What is a set of table top games simulating team sports such as soccer, cricket, both rugby and hockey, and closely associated with soccer, which for many years was marketed as "the replica of Association Football" ?
60. Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Matthew Macfadyen are part of the ensemble cast of what award-winning US TV series, first aired in 2018?
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