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General Knowledge Quiz 231 (60 MCQs)

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1. What was particularly prevalent along the coasts of 15th and 16th century China?
2. What sea or ocean is beside the port city of Dar Es Salaam?
3. Which mountain range extends over Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela?
4. Who directed the 1993 film "Schindler's List", which was based on the novel "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally?
5. The first Olympic Games gold medals, awarded for the first time in 1904, weighed 21g; until the 2020 Games what has been the heaviest gold medal since?
6. In May 2010, at the age of 13, Jordan Romero became the youngest person to do what?
7. Which city is on the delta of the River Nile?
8. Which of these contains the first record of the use of the word "muggle" ?
9. When was non-branded standardised packaging for cigarettes and other tobacco products on sale first made a legal requirement?
10. Which of these does the vagus nerve affect in the human body?
11. What does the Scots expression "deoch an doris" apply to?
12. Dermatitis affects what part of the body?
13. What is a mathematical term for "one quarter" ?
14. What is the setting for the Steve Miner film "Lake Placid" ?
15. What does the organisation WADA promote, coordinate and monitor?
16. Which of these cities was not taken into Polish territory immediately after World War II?
17. Which of these is in Madrid?
18. Which golf club is designed to hit the ball the furthest distance?
19. Which of these countries calls its provinces "voivodeships" ?
20. What fraction of a second is a nanosecond?
21. Who wrote the song with which the Rolling Stones had their first top 20 hit in the UK?
22. Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding were the rhythm section for which trio?
23. Arthur Wellesley, later 1st Duke of Wellington, was gazetted in the military in 1787 and by 1796 had the rank of colonel. What was the date of his first military action?
24. "O Look" is the manuscript of which work published in 1929 by the celebrated American writer Thomas Wolfe?
25. Which of these includes termites in its diet?
26. What is "Californian Blush" ?
27. Which of these would a child go or be taken to for physical and medical healing?
28. How many "tines" does a tuning fork usually have?
29. What is the name of a cross between broccoli and cauliflower?
30. What is a latte?
31. Gioachino Rossini is said to have arranged much of the music of what 1816 comic opera expressly for a reigning Italian soprano at the time?
32. What is celadon?
33. The olfactory organs are concerned with the sense of what?
34. Rachel Hunter, model and Rod Stewart's ex wife, posed nude for which magazine in 2004?
35. India launched the Chandrayaan-2 mission, with a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III rocket, on July 22, 2019, to do what?
36. In 1314, who led the Scottish forces at the Battle of Bannockburn?
37. What is the word for a plant which grows on something else, using moisture and food from the environment other than what is supporting it?
38. What is a sanba?
39. Which most nearly describes the position of the human spine in relation to the heart?
40. A Ukrainian political satirist, later exiled, who wrote the plays "Dead Souls" and "The Government Inspector" was ..... ?
41. Which of these, an Irish poet and dramatist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, served as an Irish Senator for two terms, and co-founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief in its early years?
42. Which of these was the leader of The Merry Pranksters, a very "in" group of people who toured the USA in a bus experimenting with LSD in the 1960s?
43. In sport, what is the golden sombrero accorded to?
44. The Matterhorn is on the border between which two countries?
45. What is the regulation space in a croquet hoop?
46. Who raised the massive runestones known as the Jelling Stones, in Denmark?
47. When an animal, insect, fish, crustacean, snail or amphibian aestivates what is it doing?
48. What name is given to the external set of floral leaves or sepals in a flower?
49. What was the last dynasty of emperors in China, on the throne when China became a republic in 1912?
50. What was Sweeney Todd's occupation in the Stephen Sondheim musical?
51. A cheroot is a type of what?
52. Who, as the world's oldest person at the time according to the Guinness Book of records, died in January 2009?
53. Julie Burchill, Peter Arnett, P J O'Rourke and John Pilger are associated with which activity?
54. What name was given by the Greeks to cave dwellers who supposedly lived in the Caucasus or on the banks of the Red Sea?
55. Which country became a self-governing state within the British Empire in 1959, declared independence from Britain, joining the Federation of Malaysia in 1963, and left the federation on 9 August 1965?
56. Maddy Prior and Tim Hart were founding members of which English folk rock group in 1969?
57. What happened to Napoleon immediately before he was sent to prison on the island of Elba in 1814?
58. What is identified by an I. S. B. N.?
59. What is another name for that very British piece of tropical headgear, the pith helmet?
60. What was the subject of the referendum held in Australia 1999?
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