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General Knowledge Quiz 234 (60 MCQs)

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1. As what did Lubumbashi, the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, used to be known?
2. Who wrote the book on which the 1973 film "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" was based?
3. What was the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, signed by Charles VI, Habsburg ruler over a swathe of European territories and the Holy Roman Emperor, designed to achieve?
4. Where are the Atlas Mountains?
5. Who had the title role in the 1996 film "The Nutty Professor" ?
6. What name is given to a railway in which a cable attached to a pair of vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope, the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalancing each other?
7. What shape is a bar of Toblerone chocolate?
8. Who was the last to hold the presidential insignia for Poland before democratic election handed it to Lech Wałęsa?
9. In which century is the character of Lancelot of the Lake recorded as appearing in literature?
10. What is the reference in the title of the film "Mr. Pip" (2012)?
11. Dr. Gregory House, Dr. Lisa Cuddy, Dr. James Wilson, Dr. Robert Chase, Dr. Allison Cameron and Dr. Eric Foreman have all worked in which TV hospital?
12. Where is the Great Man-Made River?
13. A TV series first screened in 2014 deals with stunts which fall foul of physics, biology or engineering, and is called what?
14. What US city is home to a basketball team called the Cavaliers and a football team called the Browns?
15. Which of these is an Englishman associated with football (soccer)?
16. A cassowary is a type of what?
17. What medieval coin, first minted around 1140 by Roger II of Sicily, was adopted by Florence in 1252 and Venice in 1283, and was in use in Austria-Hungary until 1914?
18. What is an ocarina?
19. The Volstead Act, that became law in the USA on 28 October 1919, concerned what?
20. Belém, capital, major port and largest city of its state in Brazil's north, sits close to the mouth of which river?
21. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper" is an example of what?
22. In 1859, Colonel Edwin L Drake created the first what in the USA, in Pennsylvania?
23. Where and when were the first World Games held, to provide a world forum for sports not contested in the Olympic Games?
24. Which scientist married his cousin from the Wedgewood family, famous for their pottery manufacturing business, following his father's example, who had originally married into the Wedgewood family?
25. The Leontopodium nivale (Snowy lion's paw) is more commonly known as what?
26. What effect did the death of King George VI, on 6 February 1952, have on the 5th and final Test match of the cricket season between India and England?
27. According to the saying, something that is the best possible is the what?
28. What was wrong with up to 200, 000 20p coins issued by the Royal Mint in 2009 that made them instant collector's items?
29. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen is credited with inventing what?
30. What animal does an ostler deal with?
31. What does a spelunker do as a hobby?
32. Who was the first pilot to fly a fixed-wing aircraft solo around the world, landing after a seven-day, nineteen-hour flight at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1933?
33. In which British TV series (1973-78) did Michele Dotrice play the long-suffering and loving wife of Frank, against whom the rest of his world seems to conspire?
34. What was the nickname of the British army regiment called the "11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)" ?
35. Where in North America is the Chinese Wall?
36. Charles Sands (USA), Margaret Abbot (USA) and George Lyon (Canada) were winners in what Olympic sport at the 1900 and 1904 games?
37. Which company, which originated the format of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", also had a film division that produced the film "Slumdog Millionaire" ?
38. What is the thick watery substance filling the space between the lens and the cornea of the eye?
39. What does the acronym of the multinational technology and IT consulting services company Wipro, built by businessman, engineer, and philanthropist Azim Premji, stand for?
40. Which of these is a gas?
41. What is the chosen career of Brianna Jackson, the young black protagonist of "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas?
42. On 20 January 2021, 22 year old Amanda Gorman caught international attention when she did what?
43. Which Roman poet wrote "The Aeneid" and "The Eclogues" ?
44. Eric Clapton was never a member of which band?
45. Who or what is the main character in the video game "Stray" released in 2022 by Anapurna Interactive?
46. What type of being is a cicada?
47. What science features in "Proof", a play by David Auburn?
48. What is the highest national capital city?
49. What are the South American yapok, Condor caenolestid, and monito del monte?
50. Which of these is a volcano in the Andes that usually has snow on its summit?
51. The Gulf Stream, a warm ocean current, flows from the North American continent to where?
52. What does the term "baroque" mean?
53. Where was Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" premièred in 1941?
54. The River Plate is formed from the confluence of which two rivers?
55. According to DC Comics who was Wonder Woman's mother?
56. Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won which major prize in 2010?
57. Which of these was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement who in 1945 married Lee Krasner, an important influence on his career?
58. What is the focus of the 2020 Netflix series "The Healing Powers of Dude" ?
59. What was the first book to be printed in England, in 1477?
60. What is a pinetum?
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