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General Knowledge Quiz 237 (60 MCQs)

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1. An aviary is a place to keep ..... what?
2. In Savigny in France in 1457, a mother and her 6 offspring were tried for the murder of a child, and the mother convicted and executed. Who was she?
3. Which country has the largest oil reserves in the world?
4. International opera singers Heather Begg, Donald McIntyre, Kiri Te Kanawa and Malvina Major were born in which country?
5. The word "ternary" refers to what?
6. What London establishment was created in 1826 by Sir Stamford Raffles?
7. At 2.78 million square kilometres, what is the largest country in Africa?
8. The "Historia Ierosolimitana", an account of the events of the First Crusade (1095-99) to defend Christendom in Turkey and further East, and "a clarification of their miraculous meaning", was written ca 1105 by an abbot of Bourgueil named what?
9. Which theatre in Dublin, built in 1904 where George Bernard Shaw, W B Yeats, Padraic Colum, and Sean O'Casey premiered many of their plays, was severely damaged by fire in 1951?
10. In 1954, in a television adaptation of a book by Ian Fleming, Barry Nelson was the first person to appear on a screen as which fictional character?
11. What is the name of the counter-terrorism specialist who is the lead character in the TV series "24" ?
12. Strictly speaking what does the word "alibi" mean?
13. Who is remembered in the name for the "cold rain" process, the process by which precipitation starts in a mixed cloud with a temperature below freezing, e.g. how ice crystals grow at the expense of liquid cloud droplets within the cloud?
14. What is one thing which the following cities have in common:New Delhi, Yangon, Adelaide, Bengaluru, Darwin, Kolkata, and Tehran?
15. In 1949, who became the youngest player to represent England in test cricket?
16. In which game do players take the roles of children sneaking to the refrigerator?
17. The Serra do Espinhaço runs roughly north to south in which country?
18. Which pole vaulter won 6 consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympic gold, broke the world record 35 times (17 outdoor and 18 indoor records), was the first to clear both 6.0 metres and 6.10 metres (20 ft)?
19. A mastodon was an early form of what animal?
20. Who has played the role of Indiana Jones most often in films?
21. In card games, what is the name for a proposal by a player to take no tricks?
22. When was Credit Anstalt, the first bank in Vienna, founded?
23. What do "cruciverbalists" do?
24. How many members are there in the UK's House of Commons?
25. What is the next in this series: "Born to Run", "Darkness on the Edge of Town", "The River", "Nebraska", "Born in the USA", "Tunnel of Love" ..... ?
26. Which of these is in Copenhagen?
27. Who invented the spa bath?
28. What is Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941 reported to have mainly led to?
29. One of the oldest known board games involves a grid of thirty squares and sets of pawns, figured in a 1999 video game, and is called what?
30. A function whose logarithm is a quadratic equation is represented graphically as what?
31. What British TV series, that aired between 1967 and 1972 starred Edward Woodward as a reluctant professional killer for a branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section', and Russell Hunter as his unwilling assistant?
32. The musical term "scherzo" takes its name from the Italian word for what?
33. Although the position was not officially designated as such for nearly 200 years who was the first person (in 1721) unofficially called the Prime Minister of the British Parliament?
34. King Herod's song in the 1970 musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber is based on a song originally intended for what?
35. Ella Galbraith is a childhood fantasy name invented for herself by which British author?
36. Which of these imaginary lines around the earth goes through the continent of Africa?
37. Which of these runners is from England?
38. Which is NOT a recognised STD or venereal disease?
39. In what field are Scott Helme and Professor Alan Woodward best known?
40. Who was the second person to orbit the earth?
41. What English model, with her short-haired androgynous look, born Lesley Hornby, was discovered in 1966 by Nigel Davies when she was 16 and weighed 61/2 stone (41 kg, 91 lbs), and became "The Face of '66" with her high fashion mod look created by Mary Quant?
42. Clive Owen starred in the title role of which 2004 film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Franzoni, with Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley and Ivano Marescotti?
43. Which UK television series was, unusually, adapted from a US series of the same name?
44. What is a symptom of diabetic retinopathy?
45. What was the cause of a state of emergency in Kenya from October 1952 to December 1959?
46. Which describes the number 169?
47. When was the National Health Service (NHS), to provide good free healthcare for all United Kingdom citizens, launched?
48. Under what name was tacataca, or metegol, patented in the UK in 1923?
49. The RSMDT, started in 1927 and now known as the White Helmets, performed in what?
50. How many African countries are crossed by the equator?
51. Thomas Lanier Williams III, American playwright, became better known under what name?
52. What venue is the next in the series, Mecca, Tehran, Palembang ..... ?
53. A camp was built in 1779 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, to accommodate around 4, 200 prisoners; who were the people?
54. Which book broke the record for book sales in July 2007, selling 15 million copies in the 24 hours following its release?
55. According to the Bible, who was freed by Pontius Pilate, thus condemning Jesus Christ to crucifixion?
56. The Court of Arbitration for Sport was asked in 2017 to arbitrate on what in relation to Stand-up Paddleboarding?
57. Who directed the film "The Hobbit:The Desolation of Smaug" ?
58. Who married Ethan Hawke in 1998?
59. Where is scroggin more likely to be used?
60. Who wrote the song "We Are the World" that was originally recorded by the supergroup "USA for Africa" in 1985?
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