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General Knowledge Quiz 249 (60 MCQs)

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1. In 2014, who was President of the IOC?
2. What series of comic strips first appeared in French in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle on 10 January 1929?
3. Which US TV series premièred in 2018, starring (among others) Luke Grimes and Kelly Reilly, to growing critical acclaim?
4. What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
5. Canvey Wick in the Thames estuary, Essex, UK, is a nature reserve focussed on what?
6. What type of building is likely to have a minaret?
7. Which of these is a volcano on the European mainland?
8. What is the aim of a game of chess?
9. Among Josef Mengele's masterminding of killing, torture, and deadly experiments what else is understood as an aim of his activities in concentration camps of WW II?
10. What is an annual holiday in some parts of the world, celebrated on 31 October, that has its roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints?
11. When General Francisco Franco, Leader of Spain, died in 1975 what became of the government in Spain?
12. What is the most southerly city, capital of its region, in Chile?
13. Which Norse god is a giant who personifies destructive fire?
14. Vulgaria is what in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
15. When was the Euro first used as a unit of currency?
16. It was a co-production with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television about two mice and when it was released 1995 to 1998 it was the first animated television series to be presented in Dolby Surround; what was it?
17. Which of these is not a line from "The Skye Boat Song" ?
18. The American game Halma, inspired by the English game Hoppity devised in 1854, is played on what shape board?
19. What name is given to a woman divorced, separated, or living away from her spouse?
20. What is more likely to be associated with a sward?
21. What does the word "faro" not refer to?
22. Bikram Choudhury is associated with what activity?
23. Where are purlins used?
24. In the Bible, Goliath was a member of what group?
25. Which of these is a vegetable?
26. In December 2010 Paul McCartney played for charity, to raise money to prevent the closure of which club and live music venue in London?
27. The musical "West Side Story" is associated with which geographical area?
28. The 2nd and 6th presidents of the USA had the same surname. What was it?
29. What is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada?
30. In the TV series of P.G.Wodehouse's "Jeeves and Wooster", Bertie Wooster is most known for playing what musical instrument?
31. Outside a fictional presence in films and books, what is the definition of a muggle?
32. Intense rabbinical debate in New York circles in the summer of 2004, led to some observant Jews installing what?
33. Which Wonder of the Ancient World begun in 356 BC at Ephesus under the direction of Dinocrates took over a century to build?
34. Which continent has the world's highest waterfall, largest river by volume, longest mountain range, driest non-polar place, largest rainforest, highest capital city, and highest commercially navigable lake?
35. What is the former name of Helsinki, Finland?
36. A player from which nation or nations is the 2016 World Champion of the board game Diplomacy?
37. Which British golfer won the US Masters in 1989, 1990 & 1996?
38. The aim of which board game, which is based on one created in India around 500 BC, is to move pawns from the "nest" to "home" ?
39. Where is the Sea of Fertility?
40. What drink originating from India is made from yoghurt, water, salt, pepper, ice and spices and sometimes cumin, sugar, honey, turmeric powder, rosewater, lemon, mango, strawberry, cream, ice cream, pistachio nuts or a liquid derivative of cannabis?
41. Where in the body is Waldeyer's ring?
42. "The Blockheads" released a new album in 2009 after nine years' silence. Who used to be their frontman?
43. Marius Petipa is particularly well-known for his work in what?
44. In 2018 which country is the world's leading producer of fresh dates?
45. Who was the subject of the 2007 film "La Vie En Rose" ?
46. Where are the Straits of Magellan?
47. What word means skill or dexterity in the sense of cunning, deceit and trickery?
48. New Zealand first won medals in shot put in the Olympic Games in 2008; this was in women's shot put with Valerie Adams (now Vili) winning gold (2008 and 2012) and silver (2016). When did it win in the men's shot put?
49. Credits for originally writing which song are ascribed to Fred Glickman and Ellis "Buz" Butler, who in 1947 was the first to record it, and also ascribed to Fred Glickman, Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, and Ramblin' Tommy Scott?
50. Which are usually made from plastic, bamboo, wood or stainless steel?
51. Ban Ki Moon retired in 2016, as his elected term ended, from which internationally known position?
52. What hit song of 1987 included the line "We come in peace, Shoot to kill"
53. Where is the Flavian Amphitheatre?
54. What type of art would you be making if you glued macaroni onto a surface?
55. Who married music producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange on December 28, 1993?
56. Which country has hosted the greatest number of world curling championships (of any kind:men's, women's and mixed championships) between 1959 and 2015?
57. In the early 21st century the word "lockdown" became associated internationally with what?
58. If you were to fly due east from the southernmost point of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego what is the next land mass, bigger than the island you set out from, which you would meet?
59. When the 1992 Maastricht Treaty established the European Union and led to a common currency in Europe, what was the currency called?
60. Which of these is essential to the production of glass, rayon and cellophane, soaps, detergents, dyeing textiles, water softeners, most photographic film developing agents, and in toothpaste?
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