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General Knowledge Quiz 23 (60 MCQs)

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1. What was the title of a 1996 American disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as "storm chasers" ?
2. What is the name for the style of furniture made in England between 1603 and 1688?
3. How often are the Asian Games held?
4. In September 2010, why did Chen Xiaomei of the city of Xian announce that she was suing a cinema and film distributors of Chinese box office hit "Aftershock" ?
5. In Alexander Dumas's book "The Three Musketeers", two of the Musketeers are called Athos and Porthos. What was the name of the third Musketeer?
6. What distinguished British scientist did actor Eddie Redmayne portray in the film "The Theory of Everything" (2014)?
7. What is another name for the childhood disease called laryngotracheobronchitis?
8. Where did the ancient Kulintang music develop?
9. The nomadic Mongol tribes in Mongolia, Manchuria and Siberia united under which leader in the 1100s?
10. What international Games were set up and held in 1963 as a direct competitor to the Olympic Games?
11. In 2008 government in Bhutan was changed from an absolute monarchy to what?
12. What was the name of Sir Fred Hoyle's theory, an alternative to the Big Bang, that said that there was continuous creation of matter between galaxies, so that as galaxies get further apart, new ones develop between them?
13. The Proteas are a national cricket team representing which country?
14. What is the championship game of the US National Football League, the premier association of professional American football, that was first played in 1966?
15. What was the title of Pink Floyd's 11th studio album, released in 1987, that contained the single releases "Learning to Fly" and "One Slip" ?
16. Georges Leopold Cuvier is associated with which science?
17. How many piano sonatas did Ludwig van Beethoven write?
18. "Under someone's aegis" means under someone's what?
19. In western astrology what is a trine?
20. When were barcodes as a system of reading product information first developed for commercial use?
21. Which of the following have never been Prime Minister of Great Britain?
22. Gibbons are mostly native to which continent?
23. At 400 km in length, what is the world's longest glacier?
24. The game "Obduction" released in 2016 by Cyan is in the same mood as which game, a game also by Cyan released in 1993?
25. Which of these is a common synthetic compound that, from 1878 to 1950, was derived from toluene extracted from coal tar?
26. What is the national anthem of Vanuatu?
27. Which of these historic sites is in San Antonio, Texas, USA?
28. Humidity measures the quantity of water vapour in the air as a percentage by ..... what?
29. On 31 October 1941, the USS Reuben James, a post-World War I four-funnelled Clemson-class destroyer, became the first US Navy ship to do what?
30. When did the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the bill of rights entrenched in Canadian law as part of the Constitution Act, come into force?
31. In 1840 a two masted square rigged gunship, the HMS Britomart under Commander Owen Stanley, was sent to Akaroa on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. For what reason?
32. A valance is designed to do what?
33. What term was used when 15 members of a US sports team were allowed to enter mainland China after a period of over 20 years in which Americans, except on very rare occasions, had been denied visas?
34. The Kermadec Islands in the Pacific are part of the territory of what country?
35. In a Facebook vote early in 2013 about Monopoly, which of these was voted among the four least popular tokens?
36. The TV series Bonanza was set in which state?
37. When did the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), formerly the governing body of cricket in England and across the world, pass most of its global functions to the International Cricket Council (ICC)?
38. Which of these is a migratory bird?
39. Where would dimples always be found in a game of golf?
40. In total area, in relation to Western Europe, the United States is about ..... ?
41. Which of these is a species of falcon?
42. At the end of 2017 the top five golfers in the world were Hideki Matsuyama, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth and which other?
43. Which Canadian-born bandleader and violinist was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 2002 for his accomplishments in hydroplane racing, such as winning the Gold Cup in 1946 and the Ford Memorial competition in 1948?
44. What are Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, The Inner Temple and The Middle Temple, all in London?
45. What is a veiner or V-tool used for?
46. Which of these was a playwright who is believed to have co-written a number of plays credited to Shakespeare alone?
47. Queen Maude Land and Mount Erebus are on which continent?
48. When was the Royal Variety Show first televised in the UK?
49. The phrase "Stokes drift" might be used in a discussion about what subject?
50. What actor links TV versions of novels by Agatha Christie and Tom Sharpe?
51. Waterford Crystal was manufactured in Waterford City, Ireland, from 1783 until the factory was shut down after the receivership of Waterford Wedgwood plc in what year?
52. In two films made in 2000 and 2003, what was the collective name of Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu?
53. Which of these cities is in the state of Mississippi?
54. Which musical term denotes slurred staccato, notated by adding a slur to staccato notes, and is played almost legato, with each note 'carried' to the next?
55. Italy controlled which country from 1911 to 1943?
56. What is meant by the term "Lèse Majesté" ?
57. Which of Rudyard Kipling's poems has the shortest title?
58. What sort of sound does a goose make?
59. Vellum is used for what?
60. Which of these teams do not compete in North America's National Hockey League?
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