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General Knowledge Quiz 241 (60 MCQs)

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1. The World Trade Centre complex that was in New York City's downtown financial district until 2001 was made up of how many buildings when the last was built in 1985?
2. Psychologists G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Allin in 1897 coined what term or terms?
3. The Tracy family were the lead characters in which British TV series?
4. In the advertising industry, what do cyclist Rebecca Romero, triple jumper Phillips Idowu, swimmer Gregor Tait and rugby players Paul Sackey, Steve Borthwick and Shane Williams have in common?
5. Which primary colour is mixed with white to produce pink?
6. Which of these is not a cricket venue?
7. Which of these words relates to beekeeping?
8. Kevin Costner directed and acted in which of these films?
9. When was the first European crossing of North America from coast to coast accomplished?
10. What is millstone grit?
11. Before 2012 when was the most recent time the Summer Olympics were held in London, UK?
12. Which 1952 Hollywood musical film starring Danny Kaye includes many most famous stories such as "The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbelina", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Little Mermaid" ?
13. As at 2018, what was the only country in the southern hemisphere to have won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics?
14. What language or languages are the roots of the two parts of the name of the phobia, intense fear of something not usually harmful, which became current in the early 20th century called nyctophobia?
15. Who was Tycho Brahe?
16. Who commissioned film-maker Leni Riefenstahl to make "Olympia" , the first documentary film on the Olympic Games at the 1936 Berlin Games?
17. What were the family of Chinese Communist leader, Chiang Kai Shek, known as?
18. Visors, gloves and finger spikes are worn in which Olympic sport?
19. Who starred as John McClane in the "Die Hard" series of films (1988-2007)?
20. What is an essential ingredient of Bouillabaisse?
21. What is the name for the massacre of the French ruling class while in church by local people at Palermo in 1282 that started a revolution that spread to other parts of the country?
22. What is the oldest city of European origin, established in 1565 by Pedro Menedesto, that still exists in what is now the USA?
23. The lights were turned off in the Empire State Building for 15 minutes in August 2004 to mark the death of whom?
24. The Great Mosque considered by many to be the burial place of John the Baptist's head, is a landmark of which city?
25. Which would you have to cross in order to reach Mozambique from Madagascar?
26. Where is the stratovolcano called Ojos del Salado, the highest historically active volcano in the world [6, 893 m (22, 614 ft)] and the second highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere?
27. In traditional English pantomime, which shrewd, witty, light-hearted character vied with Pierrot for the affection of Columbine, and was based on the Commedia Dell'Arte character Arlecchino?
28. What animal sometimes displays a dulla?
29. The juvenile form of crane flies are called what?
30. On the Christian calendar, what is the name for the Sunday before Easter?
31. Which of these fictional characters lived at Greenbow, Alabama?
32. If the numbers from 1 to 10 are multiplied by each other, what is the last number of the result?
33. Who beat Roger Federer in the men's Wimbledon final in 2008?
34. Which sport holds biennial world championships often called "Rescue" ?
35. The composer Frédéric Chopin had a decade-long affair with which French author?
36. The liver of a goose or duck, when made into food, is called what?
37. Which of these is a condition that occurs when part of the body suffers a blow, blood clot or other collection of fluid under the perichondrium, which separates it from the cartilage, resulting in the formation of fibrous tissue in the overlying skin?
38. A nephron is a microscopic structural and functional unit of what?
39. In 1966 what unexpected event occurred in Indian politics?
40. Which of these is most attracted by a magnet?
41. Who did Rock Hudson play opposite in a series of romantic comedy films in the 1960s?
42. Which soprano, who had a highly successful opera career between 1968 and 2004, sang Handel's "Let the Bright Seraphim" at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer?
43. The American Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus americanus, is an endangered member of a family of insects which unusually for beetles do what?
44. How many official time zones are there in the People's Republic of China (PRC) mainland?
45. Where is the whisky known as The Hearach distilled?
46. The two official languages of Paraguay are Spanish and what other?
47. What is the name of the dot on a lower case "i" and "j" ?
48. When and by whom was the earliest recorded use in Western medicine of artificially induced convulsions as a therapy for a mental disorder?
49. Which English novelist wrote, among 52 novels altogether, a series called "The Barsetshire Novels" ?
50. Which US TV series, created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain and a 1963 film starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara, was centred on a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II?
51. Who painted "Boy With a Pipe" which, in May 2004, was sold for a record price of $ 104 million?
52. Which journey by James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise in 1970 almost ended in disaster?
53. The English sovereigns Henry VII and Mary I were members of which Royal House?
54. The only middle weight boxer to win the World Heavyweight Championship was who?
55. Who, in 1960, made international news for banging his shoe on a table in the UN?
56. Which of these was a nickname for the actor John Wayne?
57. When the Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant Abel Tasman set sail in 1642 under instructions from the Dutch East India Company, what places (as they are now known) did he record as having visited and having been the first European to do so?
58. Who is the subject of "The Future Is Unwritten" , a film by Julien Temple?
59. The basic sound and a few words of the Klingon language as spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Star Trek universe, was devised by which actor for "Star Trek:The Motion Picture" ?
60. Which of these is a British sea captain, whose achievements included circumnavigating the globe?
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