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General Knowledge Quiz 245 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which 2001 film follows a US operation in Somalia to capture a militia leader and self-elected President, in the course of which a helicopter crashes?
2. How many US presidents were named Franklin?
3. Part or all of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea are claimed by how many different countries?
4. What is the driest region of the USA?
5. What name did Andy Warhol give to his original New York City studio from 1962 to 1968 in premises on the 5th floor of 231 East 47th Street, Madison Avenue?
6. John and David Lloyd represented Great Britain in the early 1970s at what sport?
7. John F Kennedy is widely rumoured to have had an affair with which of these?
8. Where is "The White House" ?
9. In 1895, William G Morgan, a YMCA physical education director in Massachusetts, USA, created "Mintonette", a game for older people as an indoor sport less rough than basketball. What is it called now?
10. Three racing trophies were established in the 20th century by James Gordon Bennett, Jr, for automobiles, aeroplanes and which other?
11. What is the name of the branch of the Pacific Ocean between China and Korea?
12. Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Op. 125) is known as what?
13. Danish oil, used as a wood finish, is usually made with polymerised linseed oil and what other oil?
14. What is another name for the type of animal called poatsoj (in some Sami languages), tuktu (in the eastern Arctic), and caribou?
15. When Edward the Confessor ruled over England, royal petitions became so frequent that they were referred to the Chancellor. Which special court was set up to hear them?
16. What does "simple" mean?
17. Which drug, used as a stimulant in heart failure, can cause convulsions and paralysis if overdosed?
18. In IT systems what does the "P"in "PLC '' stand for?
19. According to the saying, "too many cooks ..... " do what?
20. Who was briefly married to Jason Alexander in January 2005?
21. What is another name for a ghost?
22. What did Jacuzzi, an Italian immigrant to the USA, invent?
23. The city was founded under the rule of King Byzas around 660 BC. What name was officially adopted for the city in 1930?
24. Which First lady, after the death of her husband, became US Representative to the UN General Assembly?
25. What is the fictional Voight-Kanpff (or Voigt-Kampff) test designed to do?
26. The largest ice fields in the southern hemisphere outside Antarctica are located where?
27. In which computer game is the player in the role of "The Stranger", who uses a special book to travel to an island and thence to several worlds known as "Ages" ?
28. Which 18th century Italian adventurer was imprisoned in Venice, escaped and managed state lotteries in Paris, then travelled to England, Poland and Spain before retiring in Bohemia?
29. The 4-yearly Maccabiah Games are designed and held for athletes of what faith or culture?
30. In what field is John Galliano famous?
31. Which president of the USA was assassinated in 1865?
32. The 10 national CONMEBOL teams come from Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and which other?
33. Which poison is also an element on the periodic table?
34. Where did Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Inc., unveil the first iPhone?
35. What British royal couple separated in 1989 after 16 years of marriage?
36. MC Kenzie and MC Reaper were members of which group?
37. Where is a ricer most likely to be used?
38. What name is given to the HQ of the USA's Department of Defence?
39. Who composed the music for the operetta in which the song "Make Our Garden Grow" appears?
40. During the reign of Ashurbanipal who reigned in the seventh century BC, the Susa-Babylon highway became the first recorded example of what?
41. Which TV series followed the exploits of Father Ted Crilly, Father Dougal McGuire and the retired Father Jack Hackett, who preside over a parish on Craggy Island?
42. What characterises a codex?
43. Which of these sports fields the highest number in each team?
44. Fanta Four are one of what country's top hip hop bands?
45. "The Pohutukawa Tree" and "The End of the Golden Weather" are plays by whom?
46. Canadian Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto and joined her elder brother in New York City, working as a bookkeeper for the E.R. Squibb Pharmaceuticals Company. By what name is she better known?
47. Which TV family lived on North Cemetery Ridge?
48. What is a good idea not to do in public if you want to keep secrets private?
49. Why did Captain James Cook give the name "The Sandwich Islands" to the Hawaiian Islands on his discovery of them on 18 January 1778?
50. What is the title of a 2004 book co-written by Paris Hilton and Merle Ginsberg?
51. Olympic gold medallists Ian Thorpe, Stephanie Rice, Lisbeth Trickett, Mike Wenden and John Henricks represented which country?
52. Where is Bass Strait?
53. Who formally opened the 2020 Summer Olympics?
54. What was the first car to be equipped with GPS as an option, which began to be marketed in 1990?
55. Which of these is a name for a fear of flying?
56. Which of these was an 18th-century German philosopher from Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) who was the last influential philosopher of modern Europe in the classic sequence of the theory of knowledge during the Enlightenment which began with John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume?
57. Where did the phrase which is said to have led to "Trip the light fantastic" originate?
58. What river holds the unusual Moconá Falls (also called the Yucumã Falls)?
59. Grace Kelly appeared in which of these classic films?
60. What is the name for an Australian Aboriginal spear-throwing device used to increase the power of a throw?
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