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General Knowledge Quiz 238 (60 MCQs)

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1. The symbol of the Olympic Games is made up of 5 interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and what other colour?
2. What do the names Charles, Orville, Jean, Wilbur and Laika suggest?
3. In the 21st century visual arts world, what art work or works does the name "Kaleidoscope" refer to?
4. Who is the eponymous central character of an 1880 novella, a prostitute who is the subject of the self-centred exploitation and then hypocrisy of the people around her?
5. What 2003 film, starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz, was based on a book by John Grisham?
6. What adaptation gives the tiny moss-like Schistostega pennata, the only member of its family, its other names of goblin gold, Dragon's gold or elfin-gold?
7. What is the surname of the actors Henry and Peter, who are father and son?
8. By what name was Erich Weiss better known?
9. King Edward Point, a centre for applied fisheries research which supplies data for the international organisations that set catch limits for the commercial fisheries in its region, is also the capital city of where?
10. What was the name of Scrooge's clerk in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" ?
11. What material does the USA's Library of Congress house?
12. What is judged in the annual D1GP series in Japan?
13. The first interracial kiss in a US TV drama series was in 1968 on what show?
14. St Vitus Cathedral is in which of these capital cities?
15. The process by which various groups attempt to transfer their own interests to be the interests of public policymakers is known, as a formal theory, by what name?
16. Gloss is usually applied to what part of the body to provide a sheen?
17. Which is the southernmost capital city of the Americas?
18. Who wrote the operas "The Marriage of Figaro", "Don Giovanni" and "Cosi Fan Tutte" ?
19. Which of these is used to measure electric current?
20. In which US TV series would Dethklok and the characters Toki Wartooth, Vater Orlaag, Senator Stampingston, and Pickles the Drummer be found?
21. Jarlsberg cheese comes from which country?
22. Which of these places is closest to Chicago, Illinois, USA?
23. Who wrote the play "Still Life", on which the 1945 film "Brief Encounter" was based?
24. Suriname on the north-eastern coast of South America is one of the top producers in the world of what?
25. What does the "i" in "i-Pod" stand for?
26. Who is involved in a "curtain call" ?
27. William Gilbert Grace was a famous player of which sport?
28. Three great Siberian rivers are the Ob, Lena and which other?
29. What sport do players in the Super League compete in?
30. Who is the eponymous lead character in a British mystery series starring Alan Davies as an eccentric magician's assistant who also solves seemingly supernatural mysteries through his talent for logical deduction and knowledge of illusionism?
31. Grace Kelly made her last professional appearance in which 1956 musical film?
32. Alone among the top male tennis players (in 2020), Rafael Nadal is what?
33. Which character, who apparently was born in 1899 and still actively pursuing criminals in 1968, is the subject of 98 books by Captain W E Johns?
34. What name is given to the unit of electrical power represented by a current of 1 ampere flowing through a circuit whose potential difference is 1 volt?
35. Where, in 1961, did US-supported Cuban exiles invade Cuba?
36. Which of these is a breed of horse?
37. During performances of which musical were the audience encouraged to join in with the performance by bringing with them (and throwing them onto the stage at the appropriate times) Bounty Bars, Kit Kats, rice, party poppers, water pistols, torches, toilet paper and confetti?
38. What colour is a male Eurasian blackbird's beak?
39. Colombia's shores are in the Caribbean Sea and which other body of water?
40. In the 2021 SailGP tournament the Spanish boat was given the first what in the league?
41. Walt Disney's animated film "Bambi" (1942) drawn from Austrian Felix Salten's 1923 book had been shelved for five years mainly for what reason or reasons?
42. What is the term for the greenish oxide formed on copper?
43. What is the dominant vegetation in central Siberia?
44. Between 1905 and 1907 a bloody interethnic clash continued in European Asia between what peoples?
45. The book "What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character" (1988) records reminiscences of a Nobel Prize winner who was widely known for his popularising of what?
46. In mathematics, what is the meaning of a triple bar, an equal sign with another bar above?
47. Where is the most easterly point in South America?
48. Key Largo, Key West, Plantation Key and Big Pine Key are part of which US state?
49. A serf in mediaeval Europe was bound for life to a plot of land and to his landlord, and was bought and sold with the land. What was the last date it was legally abolished within continental Europe, from Poland and the Carpathians westwards?
50. What are Luk Thep, or Angel Children?
51. Who was the founder and vocalist for the band Simple Minds?
52. Which city, originally a monastic settlement founded by Saint Finbarr in the 6th century, built on the River Lee, became a major point of Irish emigration to North America after the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s?
53. Stand-up comedian, writer and film-maker Elliott Spencer is also known as what?
54. In 2023 news media cameras were distracted by views of pop star Taylor Swift at games in which sports franchise?
55. With what is the expression "hey-pass" associated?
56. Which Christian festival is celebrated on 6 January, the 12th day after Christmas, to commemorate the coming of the Magi?
57. Which of these is an American comedian who made a career in the UK as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s?
58. The 16th century was a turbulent period in many areas; which of these came first?
59. Who wrote the song "A Fine Romance" ?
60. In 1978, after escaping from Iran, where was the Ayatollah Khomeini granted political asylum?
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