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General Knowledge Quiz 250 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the product of a score and a baker's dozen?
2. In May 1987, perhaps 4, 000 sq. miles (10, 000 sq. km) of timber was destroyed in the Greater Khingan, or Da Hinggan, Range in eastern Mongolia. What caused the devastation?
3. Oberon is a moon of which planet?
4. What was the Russian Osip Mandelstam known for?
5. Which cricketer has scored the most first class centuries in history?
6. In what field are the Peabody Awards known?
7. Which musical term means "sustained", and occasionally also implies "a slowing of tempo" ?
8. A typical harvest from Spain and Greece is what?
9. What was the stated motive behind a bombing in Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, USA?
10. American college student Otto Warmbier died in 2017 after returning from 17 months prison in which country?
11. When did Genghis Khan fight and lead in Asia and Europe?
12. Which of these is the branch of internal medicine and pediatrics dealing with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney?
13. In Germany, what is an autobahn?
14. The saiga, around since the Pleistocene, are what kind of animal?
15. What is the name of the city known before 1936 internationally as Tiflis?
16. Which UK TV series (first screened in 2021), centres on a young New Zealander living in Hackney, London, working jobs in a cinema and as a nanny, who, after a one-night stand on New Year's Eve, discovers she slept with a famous movie star?
17. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe were better known as what when they hit #1 in 1984 in the UK, Canada and the USA?
18. What was Cleopatra's favourite colour?
19. South African-born English cricketer Kevin Pietersen was dropped from the England team in August 2012. What was the reported reason?
20. The name of the Doukhobor religious sect means what?
21. In Dover in the UK, what nearly complete Bronze Age relic from about 1500 BCE was discovered in 1992?
22. American social worker Doria Ragland is the mother of what American actress who in 2018 adopted British citizenship and married a notable British figure?
23. Which of these is an American bandmaster and composer of marches such as "Stars and Stripes Forever" ?
24. When the Badminton World Federation was first formed in 1934 (initially as the International Badminton Federation) the nine founder nations were Canada, Denmark, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Scotland, Wales and which other?
25. Artist, professional football player (American and Canadian), actor and author Ernie Barnes was named "Sports Artist" of which Olympic Games?
26. What is the language most commonly spoken in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan?
27. Who or what was the plant, the dahlia, named after?
28. When alum (potassium aluminium sulphate) is used in dyeing, it is a what?
29. In which state or territory of Australia would you find the area known as Arnhem Land?
30. Why were the 1904 Olympic Games, originally awarded to Chicago, Illinois, USA, eventually held in St Louis, Missouri?
31. America was named after the first name of which of these people?
32. In ballet, which of these terms means "a step of beating in which the dancer jumps into the air and rapidly crosses the legs before and behind" ?
33. What was unusual about how George I, a 17 year old Danish prince, became King of the Hellenes, ruling from 1863 to 1913?
34. An "americano" is a type of what?
35. Where are the islands called Big Chicken, Chick, Hen, East Sister, Middle and Mohawk?
36. Who is the author of the fiction books "Lace" (published in 1982), "Lace 2" (1985), "Savages" (1987), "Crimson" (1992), "Tiger Eyes" (1994), "Revenge of Mimi Quinn" (1998) and "The Amazing Umbrella Shop" (1990)?
37. What about a tornado distinguishes it from a hurricane?
38. Which of the following fits in the sentence " ..... not my fault" ?
39. In December 2016 Russia accepted what plan by the International Olympics Committee?
40. The first 3 winners of which road bicycle race were Emile Rogiers (BEL) in 1948, Gerrit Schulte (NED) in 1949 and Henk Lakeman (NED) in 1950?
41. What name is given to a young whale?
42. A century covers how many years?
43. The five novels, Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk and At Last (published in 2011), are collectively known as what?
44. Max is a little boy who appears in which children's story by Maurice Sendak?
45. What is the name of the main tournament course at St Andrews Golf Club?
46. Who won the World Snooker Championship in 2017?
47. Which New Zealand-born operatic bass-baritone who made his formal debut in "Nabucco" in 1959 has had famous roles in "Wotan" at Bayreuth (1979-80), "Der Fliegende Holländer" (1974), "Elektra" (1980), "Die Meistersinger" (c.1990), and "Arabella" (with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, 1994)?
48. Graham Chapman had the title role in which of these films?
49. What distinguishes a wine known as vin de pays?
50. In relation to a line drawn between the base of the uprights holding the bar over which a competition pole vault is being made, where is the box situated in which the pole is planted?
51. According to Shakespeare who kills Macbeth?
52. Prince William left St Andrews University in 2005 with a degree in what subject?
53. George Hepplewhite is famous for making what in the 18th century?
54. Which Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer kickstarted his career by anonymously uploading a song to YouTube in 2009, by 2016 was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards, and in 2021 headlined the Super Bowl half time show?
55. Which of these was the last to make their first appearance on film?
56. Gruyère is a town in which country?
57. What musical features the characters Frank N Furter and Riff Raff?
58. In which sport are jesses used?
59. Small coloured dots on a squash ball indicate its "bounciness" (i.e. the standard of play for which it is to be used). Which of these is not one of the colours used?
60. Who lives with the rest of the Darling family and Nana the dog?
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