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General Knowledge Quiz 239 (60 MCQs)

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1. Mansaf, the national dish of Jordan, is made of meat from what animal, cooked in a sauce of fermented reduced yoghurt and served with rice?
2. The American Yorkshire, Beijing Black, British Lop, Danish Landrace, Gloucestershire Old Spots, Iberian, Lacombe, Meishan, Mulefoot, Saddleback, Vietnamese Potbelly and Yanan are all types of what?
3. The mantilla is a type of what?
4. Which is a characteristic which distinguishes the harvestman from other arachnids?
5. What is the name given to the four international treaties made in 1864, 1906, 1929 and 1949 and the three "Protocols" from 1977, that concern the treatment of non-combatants and prisoners of war?
6. How would a vocal ensemble singing a cappella usually be accompanied?
7. Where was gridiron football developed?
8. What is the island known until 1956 as Bedloe's Island in the USA used for?
9. Whose Illustrations first brought to life the characters in "The Wind in the Willows" (1931) by Kenneth Grahame and, in 1924 and following, the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne?
10. The Everglades are a subtropical wetland in which U.S. state?
11. Which of these was an irregular unit of British Special Forces founded in Cairo in 1942 by Major Vladimir Peniakoff that served in the Western Desert during World War II?
12. What was highlighted in 2016 as a possible result of a pregnant woman's being infected with the zika virus?
13. Which English rowing event is held every year on the River Thames for 5 days (Wednesday to Sunday) over the first weekend in July?
14. Where is the TV series "Ally McBeal" set?
15. What is a cord of wood?
16. What is the official language of Suriname?
17. Who, if any, of these could, if they had chosen, have met Christopher Columbus?
18. Where or how is riprap used?
19. What Roman road, which began to be constructed in 312 BC, connected Rome to Brindisi in southeast Italy?
20. Which of these was a journalist whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996, the subject of a 2003 film starring Cate Blanchett?
21. Which 20th century Irish playwright wrote "Juno and the Paycock", "The Plough and the Stars", "Silver Tassie" and "Within the Gates" ?
22. The 2020 winner of France's prestigious Prix Goncourt was author Hervé Le Tellier for what book?
23. Which of these is not a solid at normal room temperature?
24. The Canary Islands are an autonomous dependency of what country?
25. Which author used the pseudonym of "Nicholas Blake" ?
26. Which of these was not one of the "Three Fates" (or "Parcae") in Roman mythology?
27. What is the Heimlich Manoeuvre designed to do?
28. In November 2009 at Pointe Magnin in New Caledonia, Bruna Kajiya beat Gisela Pulido to become women's freestyle World Champion in which sport?
29. What is "A" in the International Radio Alphabet?
30. When did the first of the three, subsequently internationally famous, ballets Igor Stravinsky composed for Sergei Diaghilev première?
31. What is described as the main focus of social philosophy or sociology?
32. The Khedive of Egypt commissioned Giuseppe Verdi to write which opera to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal?
33. A substance that attracts water molecules from the environment through either absorption or adsorption is called what?
34. The 4 main divisions of a symphony orchestra do not include which of these?
35. Which of these film directors is Australian?
36. What is the name of the London theatre named after a mineral spring discovered in 1683 when a music house was built there?
37. During World War II, what was the name given to deliberately created simulations of burning towns that were constructed in Britain to decoy German night bombers away from bombing real towns?
38. Aimée is the first name of which of these singers?
39. Mesons have an extremely brief life span, but when they exist where are they most likely to be found?
40. Which of these is an instrument used to measure horizontal and vertical angles?
41. In what relationship are the pairs of words which can mean:a rug, and non-glossy surface; deposit something, and a golf shot; fixed, and a badger home?
42. Where were the Devil's Dykes situated?
43. Compared to playing the string open, placing a finger behind the 12th fret on a guitar finger board raises the note by how much?
44. What name was given to the first day of the crash in the 1929 New York stock market, October 24?
45. What is the Walvis Ridge?
46. What is the word for an asexual form of reproduction found in females where growth and development of embryos occurs without fertilisation by a male?
47. When Sir Alex Ferguson retired in May 2013 after 26 years as manager for Manchester United Football Club who succeeded him?
48. Lake Winnipeg is in which Canadian province?
49. Who was the 2001 Wimbledon Women's Singles Champion?
50. What is an ornamental string of feathers?
51. Which of these is an album by Fifty Cent?
52. What was the name of Vincent Van Gogh's brother?
53. André Malraux and Marcel Proust are among the laureates of what premier French literary prize, awarded annually, including during both World Wars, since 1903?
54. Pope Francis, when he was elected Bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic church on 14 March 2013, marked a number of firsts for this papacy. Which of these was NOT one?
55. What USA national championship game, played on a Sunday, is the second-largest US food consumption day, after Thanksgiving Day?
56. Where is the Laurentian Fan, or Abyss?
57. What was the first standardised system of measurement established in Mesopotamia?
58. Who referred to her quarter final match against Svetlana Kuznetsova in the 2009 Australian Open as "an out of body experience" ?
59. In 800 CE, who became the first Holy Roman Emperor?
60. What weight boot is prescribed by the International Boot-Throwing Association, Finland, for children of 10 or younger who compete in gumboot throwing?
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