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General Knowledge Quiz 246 (60 MCQs)

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1. In the TV series "Criminal Minds", the lead characters are part of a section called the BAU. What does this acronym stand for?
2. Which musical, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows, is based on two short stories by Damon Runyon ("The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure")?
3. How did Boudica (also spelled Boudicca or Boadicea), Queen of the Iceni, die in 63 AD?
4. Which cartoon character, created by Yuko Shimizu, is depicted with a red bow and no visible mouth?
5. Neanderthals are considered one of the closest extinct relatives of what other still living creature?
6. Which of these groups of characters was invented by director Peter Jackson?
7. In "The Hobbit", what type of creature was Smaug?
8. When did Kristallnacht happen?
9. What gas is used to make carbonated soft drinks and soda water?
10. In the 19th century in Europe, cubebs, known as Piper cubeba, tailed pepper, or Java pepper, were thought to be possibly a useful medicine in the treatment of what?
11. Which is the most populous city in Ecuador?
12. Jock Paget, a New Zealand equestrian international competitor, was not able to compete from October 2013 to August 2014; what was the reason?
13. It was a highly popular music hall song in 1910, a signature tune of Harry Champion, and was revived and popularised by Joe Brown and by Herman's Hermits, and is ..... ?
14. How did Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt leave office in 1967?
15. What is the palace and fortress complex of the Moorish rulers of Granada in southern Spain constructed during the mid 14th century that occupies a hilly terrace on the southeastern border of the city of Granada, Spain?
16. A petard, a small bomb which was first used in the 16th century to attach to and create a breach in fortifications and similar, gets its name from a word meaning what?
17. Which of these volcanoes has not been active in the 21st century?
18. Where is the "Summer Palace" which is also known as the "Garden of Nurtured Harmony" ?
19. The two active volcanoes, Mount Nyiragongo and Mount Nyamuragira, which both erupted in 2021 during the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, are in which country?
20. Where did Henry Ford, in the early twentieth century, establish the Ford Motor Company?
21. Which country, a founder member of the Arab League in 1945 was suspended from the League from 1979 to 1989 after it signed a peace treaty with Israel?
22. The song "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" is from which musical?
23. What tourist facility, occupying more than 85 acres, opened in Anaheim, California, in 1955?
24. What was the special field of history examined by English historian and Member of Parliament, Edward Gibbon?
25. Who was the main character in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels "A Study In Scarlet", "The Sign of Four" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" ?
26. In the song "Seventy-Six Trombones" from the musical "The Music Man" (1957) how many cornets were "close at hand" ?
27. The film, Tess of the Storm Country (1914), was an early highlight in releases by the company, Famous Players in Famous Plays; this company merged with others to form another company now known as what?
28. Joe Calzaghe, known as "The Pride of Wales", was a boxing world champion in which category?
29. What is the name for the coloured part around the pupil of the eye?
30. With what is the non-profit international organisation called DoCoMoMo concerned?
31. Beginning in 1612 lotteries were held in America under the auspices of King James I to do what?
32. Which 17th century theatre was reconstructed in the 1990s?
33. What was the professional name under which guitarist, singer and musician Ellas Otha Bates McDaniel performed?
34. During the TV series "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" what position is Uncle Phil, with whom Will stays, appointed to?
35. The minting of which English gold coin began in 1663, and ceased in 1817?
36. Which of these flags is not blue and white, featuring a cross?
37. Somebody who is wordy, long-winded, or uses many more words than seem necessary, can be described as what?
38. What is a feature of the Caño Cristales, a river east of the Andes in central Colombia?
39. The Wright Brothers' first powered flight, in 1903, took place where?
40. A phrase meaning "there must be some truth in the rumour" is "where there is [what] there is fire" ?
41. Hunted to extinction in the wild in the early 20th century in Europe, wisent, now re-introduced in some areas, are more usually known as what?
42. In terms of astronomy what is an NEO?
43. Mrs Tiggy-Winkle appears in a book by which writer?
44. Which of these events in World War II occurred first?
45. What is the meaning of the Russian word "bolshevik" ?
46. Between 9 December 1917 and 11 November 1918 (inclusive) how many armistices are recognised as having effected cessation of fighting in various areas during World War I?
47. What was the name of the home of Captain Haddock, a character in the "Tintin" books?
48. What is the name for the study of atom arrangement and geometric structures in crystals?
49. Which of these novels was not written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
50. Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (1717-1780) was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and ruled in her own right over 11 territories in what is now Europe. She also ruled by marriage in Lorraine, Tuscany and what other?
51. Dancer, singer and actor Gregory Hines is particularly celebrated as a what?
52. The phrase "The Dashing White Sergeant" refers to ..... ?
53. In Greek legend, Ulysses sailed safely between ..... what?
54. What was "the world's first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses, " that went online in 1957?
55. What English football club lost 8 players and 3 officials in the Munich air disaster of 1958?
56. Although now a term for an ordinary infantryman, in 1640 a "fusilier" was so called because his weapon was a fusil. What was a fusil?
57. The HMHS Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic and heir to the experience gained by that sinking, was completed at the end of 1915 and requisitioned as what before falling foul of a mine and sinking in 1916?
58. Dodge Morgan, who became famous in 1986 at age 54 when he sailed solo around the globe without stops in 150 days (breaking the record of 292 days), had become a millionaire by operating a company that manufactured what from 1971 to 1983?
59. The Colorado Beetle destroys which crop?
60. What is the deepest lake in the world?
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