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General Knowledge Quiz 24 (60 MCQs)

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1. What craft are sailed in the international competition SailGP?
2. If you were to describe horse racing as "the turf", what figure of speech would you be using?
3. The plain of Marathon is in which country?
4. "Wort" is a product of what food process?
5. "Ïf you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself then make a change" is a line from what song?
6. Which of these is NOT a type of pony?
7. What device found on ships from the 18th century, consists of a telescope, a graduated arc and two mirrors, one of which is attached to a moveable arm?
8. Knowledge of Romano-Jewish history had major early contributions from what scholar?
9. Where is the process known as folk etymology used?
10. Where is Iraq's main port?
11. What is used to tune the pitch of a snare drum?
12. The word "vaccinate" is based on a word meaning what?
13. Which was the second highest grossing film released in 1939?
14. Magnetic attraction or repulsion depends on what?
15. The song "Hark, hark, the lark at heav'n's gate sings" appears in what play" ?
16. The virus myxomatosis has been deliberately introduced into agricultural areas to achieve what?
17. Where is the Rub'al-Khali?
18. Which of these shipping companies owned the "Titanic" ?
19. What profession, when they are working, are the Withnail and I of the 1987 British cult film of that name?
20. Where is a brinicle found?
21. The first 21 novels of the "Jennings" series of humorous children's books by Anthony Buckeridge, published between 1950 and 1973, were set where?
22. What is the longest time that there can be between General Elections in the UK?
23. Which major record label was created in 1901, using the name of an 1898 painting of his friend's pet by Francis Barraud?
24. Which constellation is just below the feet of The Great Bear?
25. In standard tuning for a 6 string guitar, two strings are tuned to the same note, two octaves apart. What is the note?
26. Which of these is a cave complex near the town of Santillana del Mar, 30 km west of Santander, Spain, which is famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands?
27. Who was the Lanterne Rouge in the 2015 Tour de France?
28. Brogues are a type of what?
29. Which of these Elizabeth/Elisabeths did not have the title of Queen?
30. Grammy winning American composer Stephen Paulus is known for which of these 1982 works?
31. Which of these won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 2008?
32. "Something wicked this way hops" was the tagline for which film released in 2005?
33. Which of these worked in cosmology?
34. What is another name for "fishing" ?
35. Which of these could be appropriate to describe the arches in a vault?
36. In economics, what is "Dutch disease" ?
37. Which Norwegian playwright wrote "Hedda Gabler", "The Master Builder" and "Peer Gynt" ?
38. A "Wobbegong" is a type of what?
39. Who, in 1982, was arrested for drunkenly urinating on a cenotaph erected in honour of those who died at the Alamo in Texas, across the street from the actual building?
40. The Hanseatic League was a union of ports on which sea?
41. The city of Canton in China is now known as what?
42. Who created and hosts the TV series "America's Next Top Model" ?
43. The Mukden Incident in late 1931, provided an excuse for what Japanese action later that year?
44. The "Alexandra", "Empress of Australia", "Gothic" and "Britannia" were what kind of ship?
45. Although Chinese emperors had kept a fleet, when needed for waging coastal wars and invading neighbouring lands, when did they first establish a standing navy?
46. With what is the name of Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891) associated?
47. Where is the area known as the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland?
48. Which figure from Scottish history was played by Mel Gibson in a 1995 film?
49. How many Olympic Games has Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom opened?
50. What is Archie Panjabi particularly known as?
51. Which of these was one of the most well known rapid-fire weapons to be used in the 1860s by the Union forces of the American Civil War?
52. Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as US president in 1865?
53. "Afterlife", a critically acclaimed 2005 TV series, centred on what?
54. Who is next in the series Hugo Speer, Ben Miller, Kris Marshall, Ardal O'Hanlon ..... ?
55. In the film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008) Daisy and Benjamin Button were played by which actors?
56. In New Zealand, the word "moko" refers to a type of what?
57. What was the now-extinct New Zealand huia?
58. How many coronations had been held at Westminster Abbey before that of Queen Elizabeth II?
59. Which applies to the Olympic torch carried for the 2014 Winter Olympics?
60. Who was the Tannhäuser?
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