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General Knowledge Quiz 233 (60 MCQs)

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1. A sound change within a word that indicates grammatical information is known as what?
2. What is the name of the bird in the Peanuts comic strip?
3. In 1930, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina began a thirty-one year dictatorship of where?
4. The inaugural day-night cricket test game played at the Oval, Adelaide, Australia, in November 2015 was played between Australia and which other country?
5. Which of these is not considered a true desert?
6. What river runs through Memphis, Tennessee, USA?
7. Three Americans, artist Samuel F. B. Morse, physicist Joseph Henry, and machinist and inventor Alfred Vail, developed what in the 1830s?
8. Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey were involved with the launch of what computer application?
9. What organisation, set up to encourage scientific research, was founded in 1648 and obtained a charter from King Charles II in 1660?
10. The World Championships in which sport are held both indoors (first held in 1979, competed annually) and outdoors (first held in 1966, competed every four years)?
11. What is the name of the place where water comes out of the ground?
12. In ancient, mediaeval, and Renaissance Europe what was a trencher?
13. An oil used in cosmetics is produced in the seed of which shrub?
14. Erik Akkersdijk set a world record of 7.08 seconds at the Czech Open in 2008 ..... for what?
15. When was the Heian period in Japan, named after the imperial city at the time (modern Kyoto)?
16. Fingerprints come in three basic patterns. Which of these is not one of them?
17. Which 1986 Oscar-winning film borrows part of its structure from Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" ?
18. Which racquet sport game is played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball?
19. Who published an autobiography entitled "A Journey" on 1 September 2010?
20. On 30 September 1399, Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, became better known as whom?
21. Mt Kilauea, a volcano in Hawaii, has been erupting continuously since when?
22. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was formed in April 1949; when did Germany become a member of NATO?
23. What 1999 film had the tag line "Bigger, Longer and Uncut" ?
24. What effect does annealing glass have?
25. How many tentacles surround a sea cucumber's mouth?
26. The Honda Formula One team was taken over by which team for the 2009 season?
27. Which of these is a description of a mordent?
28. What is the next in this series:Rome, Tokyo, Mexico City ..... ?
29. The Himalayan mountain range runs through Eastern China, Tibet, Nepal, India and which of these?
30. "Degras" is what?
31. What is referred to as earth's sister planet due to its similar size and mass?
32. What decided the International Olympic Committee to hold the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics a year later, in 2021?
33. The best selling 1976 autobiography of which leading country vocalist and songwriter during the 1960s and 1970s, "Coal Miner's Daughter", was made into a film starring Sissy Spacek (who won an Academy Award for Best Actress) and Tommy Lee Jones in 1980?
34. Which of these is a popular ballet by Tchaikovsky?
35. What was the first name of the painter Manet?
36. "In the Land of Blood and Honey", set in Sarajevo in the 1990s in the Bosnian war, was the directorial debut of what USA actress?
37. His name could be loosely translated as "rule by, or supported by, horses" and is enshrined in the traditional doctors' oath. Who is he?
38. What sport has been contested annually in Britain since 1715 in the race called "Doggett's Coat and Badge" ?
39. Paul McCartney owns the rights to which British cartoon character from the 1950s who wore checked trousers?
40. What type of work is the book published by Kate Tempest as "Brand New Ancients" ?
41. Cardinal Richelieu founded what institution in 1634?
42. France's third longest border, after Spain and Switzerland, is with which country?
43. How many months of the year have 31 days?
44. What was the mission of "Earthview 01:The Founders Flight" which was launched on 21 April 1997?
45. Daniel Craig starred in his fifth and final James Bond film, "No Time to ..... (what) ..... " (2021)?
46. What is the name of the bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada, which forms the first part of their Constitution Act, 1982?
47. What is the correct title for the country known as San Marino?
48. What describes a bathroom connected to a bedroom?
49. What sort of creature is a coypu?
50. Which of these is a stretch of water on the West coast of Britain between the islands of Ireland and Great Britain, connected to the Atlantic Ocean in the south (via the Celtic Sea) by St George's Channel and in the north by the North Channel?
51. Although the modern Olympic Games was established for competition by amateurs, full professionals began to be admitted. One of the last sports to be fully amateur in the Olympics accepted professionals in the 2016 Games. Which one was this?
52. The Hesketh racing team, with its Union Jack Teddy Bear logo, founded by Lord Hesketh and Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley, had its greatest successes in Formula One when they employed which driver?
53. As of March 2023, 113 countries are parties to what cosmically ambitious treaty signed in 1967?
54. When the British player Virginia Wade won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1977, the last British woman to do so for at least the next approximately 40 years, what other significance did the win have?
55. In which war were the sieges of Mafeking, Kimberley and Ladysmith lifted following the arrival of reinforcement British troops under the command of Lord Kitchener and Lord Roberts?
56. Which nation's team has won badminton's Thomas Cup, the tournament for the World Men's Team Championships, the most times?
57. Which of these is a miser or an ill-tempered (frequently old) person full of stubborn ideas or opinions?
58. In what country did rugby football originate, and when were the first rules written?
59. What is a mosquito-borne virus, also known as breakbone fever, that is an acute febrile disease which occurs widely in the tropics, in Asia, South America, Australia and the Pacific and is now endemic in more than 100 countries?
60. What is a link between the religious statues of Our Lady of the Hermits in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, and Our Lady of Tindari, Sicily, and the painting of Our Lady of Jasna Gora, Poland?
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