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General Knowledge Quiz 235 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which country is led in 2016, in fact though not in name, by someone held by the country under house arrest for almost 15 of the 21 years from 1989 to 2010?
2. Who worked with Rihanna to choreograph her performance at the Superbowl 2023?
3. What dance was Elizabeth I, Queen of England, described as particularly liking?
4. What relationship does T S Eliot have to toilets?
5. Where are tenrecs mostly found?
6. In 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed when a IRA bomb exploded where?
7. In 1968, which book by Philip K Dick was published that became the basis for the 1982 film "Blade Runner" ?
8. What sounds the closest to a low point?
9. What tournament was threatened in 1976 because of the shortage of horse chestnut seeds in Northamptonshire, England?
10. What or who is a gongoozler?
11. In 1937, what name was given to the part of Ireland that was not under British rule?
12. "The Miracles" backed which singer?
13. Which of these is an historical novel by Arthur Conan Doyle which deals with the Duke of Monmouth's landing in England in 1685, the raising of his army, its defeat at Sedgemoor, and the reprisals which followed?
14. What is the title of Mike Leigh's 2014 film, featuring Timothy Spall in the title role in a biopic of a celebrated British painter?
15. Which of these has the smallest land area?
16. What is the only country not to identify itself on its postage stamps?
17. Where was ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair born?
18. After whom are the four main spectator stands at the Roland Garros named?
19. Which speeds up chemical reactions?
20. The TV series first broadcast between 1978 and 1982, which had the short title of "WKRP", was set in what city?
21. Who produced the film "12 Angry Men", which was scripted by Reginald Rose, starred Henry Fonda and was directed by Sidney Lumet?
22. If you travelled along the line of latitude from New York on the east coast of the USA to Eureka, California, on the west what would you pass through?
23. As well as Woodstock, New York, made famous by the 1969 music festival held nearby there are Woodstocks in several other places in North America; which of these is not one?
24. In the Brothers Grimm story, a dog, cat, rooster and a donkey run away to go to Bremen to become what?
25. "Hobson-Jobson" is the short title of a book written by Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell, first published in 1886, that contains what?
26. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution came about after what event?
27. Who played Vyvyan, a psychotic punk metal medical student with orange-dyed & spiked hair and four metal stars embedded in his forehead, in the UK TV series "The Young Ones" ?
28. Who is reflected in the name for the Philippines?
29. In which year did the South African government lift the ban on the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress, the South African Communist Party and the United Democratic Front, and release Nelson Mandela from prison?
30. Who was the first female gymnast from outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title?
31. In December 2009, Massimo Tartaglia attacked Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with what?
32. Starz created what 2021 roadtrip TV series?
33. What year did Jean-Francois Champollion publish the first correct translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs from the Rosetta Stone, the Roman Catholic Church take Galileo Galilei's "Dialogue" off their list of banned books, and Britain repeal the death penalty for over 100 crimes?
34. Which American serial drama TV series, first broadcast in 2004, follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a Pacific island after a plane crash?
35. An international treaty supported by 122 nation states and passed on 7 July 2017 in the United Nations aimed to do what?
36. The hammerbeam roof, a mediaeval type of stepped wooden architecture designed for spanning wide spaces, is a feature of which ancient English building?
37. Which of these games does not involve the use of dice?
38. The cities of Rasht, Gorgan, Sâri, Bâbol, Qaem Shahr, and Anzali lie close to, or overlook, what?
39. To travel by sea from the British mainland to the Channel Islands, it is necessary to travel through the territorial waters of which country?
40. Which Soviet gymnast won the most medals in her career?
41. Iraq lies between Syria to the west and what country to the east?
42. What is the mascot for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo?
43. Which of these colours does not appear on a purple finch?
44. In what country was the "Red Cross" founded?
45. Which South American capital city lies on the Planalto, on the Central Plateau of its country's highlands?
46. What is usually seen in Spain or the western USA at a matanza?
47. Which e-sport invitation-only annual world championship was first held in August 2002 in Seattle, USA?
48. What is another name for a blood clot?
49. What is the shape of a standard dart board?
50. Which mosquito-borne virus, closely related to chikungunya and with similar symptoms, was identified in Trinidad in 1954 and in northern South America, and surfaced in Haiti in 2015?
51. What are "crocodile tears" ?
52. Helen of Troy was abducted from where?
53. The Gapminder Foundation formed in 2005 has what as its aim?
54. The Australian Tennis Open is played in what city?
55. Circe transformed Odysseus' companions into what?
56. A musical comedy concerning an author suffering from writer's block who finds that the characters in his novel are dissatisfied was written by whom?
57. Which group in a TV series were on the run for "a crime they didn't commit" ?
58. To what does the phrase "Sunday best" refer?
59. In what year was the Married Women's Property Act passed into British law, that recognised husband and wife as separate legal entities, and gave married women the legal right to sue and be sued, be liable for their own debts, hold stock in their own names and to own, buy and sell separate property?
60. What was unusual about the 1960 Olympic marathon win by Abebe Bikila?
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