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General Knowledge Quiz 230 (60 MCQs)

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1. What character did Sharon Stone play in the 1992 film "Basic Instinct" ?
2. What is used in paper or textile making, and to form a protective coating on a canvas or other surface to be used for some art techniques?
3. The Vistula is the longest river in which country?
4. Which species of shark is the largest fish in the world?
5. Which art movement, founded in a Zurich café during World War I and consolidated at a meeting held in Paris in 1920, was led by Tristan Tzara?
6. In the late 1950s the American Medical Association publicised, and commissioned research on, what?
7. How did ex-South African cricket team captain Hansie Cronje die in 2002?
8. What is the real name of the artist known as Fatboy Slim?
9. Which festival in honour of a Roman god was forbidden in Rome in 186 BC?
10. What effect does an analgaesic have?
11. Which sculptor is famous for his work "The Thinker" ?
12. Which of these words describes plaster made from 3 or 4 parts sand and 1 part hydraulic lime that can be applied to the walls of buildings?
13. What is the literal meaning of the Latin legal expression "habeas corpus" ?
14. To travel in a direct line from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine in the USA how many major mountain ranges would need to be crossed?
15. Collections of drawings by Santō Kyōden (1761-1816) and ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760-1849) were described as being in what genre?
16. Who developed the live attenuated polio vaccine which has led to hopes of global eradication of the virus?
17. Which of these was famous as a jazz drummer in the mid 20th century?
18. In which decade was George Washington born?
19. Which of these areas, along with parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, and most of Arizona, were added to US territory after diplomat Nicholas Trist negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848?
20. The constellation of Gemini includes which two bright stars?
21. Which country produces the most of the world's olive oil?
22. Which of these was a mathematician and author on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois from 1955-1990, and of Eastern Michigan University from 1990-1999, most famous for writing "The Elements of Real Analysis" and "The Elements of Integration" ?
23. What is the nearest land mass east of the Shetland Islands?
24. What is the technical term for a nose bleed?
25. Quickly is what part of speech?
26. Billy Bob Thornton won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for which film?
27. Brother Walfrid, is a celebrated figure in the history of what?
28. Lydia Ko who took the 2012 Canadian Women's Open as a 15 year old amateur, became the youngest person to win an LPGA Tour event. What is her nationality?
29. In July 2009, why did Russian physicists begin trying to synthesize Ununseptium?
30. On what continent is Niagara Falls?
31. What is used on a greyhound racetrack to induce the dogs to race?
32. The most famous films of which English-born comedian were "Road To Morocco", "Paleface" and "The Iron Petticoat" ?
33. What happens in areas where there is a pattern of a mixed semi-diurnal tide?
34. In the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", what were there five of?
35. Whose career, from 1922 to 1946, included World Billiards Champion 4 times and World Snooker Champion 20 times?
36. What people drove out the Toltecs and were conquered by Spain in the 16th century?
37. Which of Shakespeare's plays was made into a film in 1953 starring Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern, John Gielgud, Deborah Kerr and Greer Garson?
38. The earliest known example of what was built by Micah, according to Judges 17, verse 5?
39. Ash from what volcano, when it erupted in June 2011, grounded flights in Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay and disrupted air traffic over Australia and New Zealand?
40. Which company won a formative case in UK labour law that held that a union taking strike action could be liable for loss of profits to an employer?
41. Which of these countries produces the greatest quantity of crude oil?
42. A brief and vicious rebellion in India in 1857-8 led to what?
43. When athlete Simone Biles took a break from competition after the Summer Olympics in 2021, lasting until 2023, she ascribed it to difficulties with what?
44. The rock musical "Rent", about a group of artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side under the shadow of AIDS, is based on which Puccini opera?
45. How, it is generally agreed, did John Wilkes Booth (who assassinated Abraham Lincoln) die?
46. Which film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat, begins and ends with public performances by The Memory Man in a London music hall?
47. Who was the Philistine warrior, famous for his battle with David, the future king of Israel, as described in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament and, more briefly, in the Quran?
48. David Seaman and David Beckham are connected with which sport?
49. Which of the following actors has never played the title role in the British science fiction drama "Doctor Who", in its TV series or on film, radio or the internet?
50. Which country has Nukualofa, on the island of Tonjatabu, as its capital?
51. Who was the first recipient of the Pierre de Coubertin World Fair Play Trophy, awarded since 1965 to honour an athlete or a team for an act of fair play that cost, or could have cost, them victory, or could have downgraded their sport performance?
52. In 1815 a fund was set up for 'securing provisions to widows, sisters and other females', which now includes a bank, life assurance, income and critical illness insurance, annuities fund and more; what name is it known under?
53. Stylets are a feature of tardigrades, diptera, aphids and some invertebrates. What purpose do they serve?
54. The 1996 record "Macarena" was by which artist?
55. What was the capital of Yugoslavia from 1918-2006?
56. What was the name of the first commercial spacecraft to transport people to a space station?
57. What name is applied to the general stiffening of the muscles caused by a coagulation of the muscle-plasma?
58. Sepoys, native soldiers, served under British command in which country?
59. The House of Lords Act, an Act of the Parliament of the UK, reformed the House of Lords by removing the centuries old right of several hundred people who had inherited their seats to be members of the House of Lords. When did it become effective?
60. When is the Rabbinical Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, observed?
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