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General Knowledge Quiz 254 (60 MCQs)

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1. What Indian word was used by the Portuguese for army servants and became applied by British to Asiatic seamen?
2. Who is the naval officer in Puccini's "Madam Butterfly" ?
3. As what is the American artist "Mr Wiggles" best known?
4. What islands were formerly called the Spice Islands?
5. In the 20th century and since, what is the village of Grimethorpe in the UK particularly well-known for?
6. Which of these are traditionally from Japan?
7. How many members of a netball team are allowed to shoot at goal?
8. When did Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam and others found the militant movement, Al-Qaeda?
9. For which of these would the term "breeze" not be appropriate?
10. Which of these motor vehicle manufacturers is not based in South Korea?
11. Poets Sarah Holland-Batt, Libby Hart, David Musgrave, Kathryn Lomer and Bronwyn Lea are from which country?
12. In which country were 29 miners killed after 2 explosions in the Pike River Mine in November 2010, making it the most-deadly mining disaster there in 96 years?
13. Teammates and vigorous competitors, Formula One drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, both drove for which team until 2016?
14. After the signing of the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, Mubarak Al-Sabah was recognised by the Ottomans and British as the ruler of the autonomous caza of which city and its hinterlands?
15. At his untimely death in 2002, ex-captain of the South African cricket team Hansie Cronje had been banned from any involvement in cricket for life. What was the reason?
16. When were the Thames Embankments in London, UK, built?
17. The "Don't Make a Wave Committee" founded in the early 1970s by Jim & Marie Bohlen, Irving & Dorothy Stowe, Paul Cote and Robert & Bobbi Hunter grew into what organisation?
18. The terms patois and argot refer to what?
19. According to the Christian and Jewish Bible, who turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah?
20. With which sport are Rodney Eyles, Peter Nicol, Susan Devoy and Cassie Campion associated?
21. A Global Seed vault has been established to maintain global genetic diversity of food crop plants; where is it sited?
22. In the Christian calendar, what is the week before Easter, historically a time of abstinence from eating flesh, drinking wine and carrying on business?
23. Superman spent his adult life in which city?
24. In the 1990 film "Dick Tracy", which starred Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly and Charlie Korsmo, who played the role of "Breathless Mahoney", an entertainer at Club Ritz who tries to steal Tracy from Tess Trueheart?
25. There were a number of firsts during which cricketing team's tour of NZ in 2020, including rare whitewashes and the first cricketer to play 100 matches in all three international formats of the sport?
26. Until Tony Blair's prime ministership, which of Britain's Labour Prime Ministers was in office for the longest continuous term?
27. In 1987, competing in "Star Search", a US talent competition on which she used the name Alanis Nadine, she lost after one round. She is now better known as Alanis who?
28. What is a kouseband?
29. Who was the first person to sign the American Declaration of Independence?
30. Which ship transported the English Separatists, better known as the Pilgrims, from Southampton and then Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620?
31. Which nation produces the most coffee beans?
32. In the nursery rhyme "sing a song of sixpence", what kind of bird plucked off a nose?
33. What is almost the only food eaten by blue whales?
34. Which of these is a fruit?
35. In golf, the Ryder Cup and the biennial Presidents Cup for teams representing the USA and International (non-European) players are unusual in that they use what scoring system?
36. In France, what would you buy in a fromagerie?
37. In which war was the napalm incendiary bomb first used?
38. As at May 2019, what officially defines a kilogram?
39. Which mountain range stretches from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west?
40. First published in 1764 under a pseudonym, which novel aimed "to blend the two kinds of romance:the ancient and the modern" and has been called the first of the gothic horror genre?
41. Who flew under the Queensboro, Williamsburg, Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges along New York's East River on 21 October 1928?
42. In the industrial relations world, which of these could cause a "demarcation dispute" ?
43. Which European ruler reigned for the longest time?
44. The city of Venice is on which sea?
45. Which sovereign led Japan during World War II?
46. What did Sweyn Forkbeard do for revenge on the English after the St. Brice's Day massacre, when Danes in the Kingdom of England were killed on St Brice's day (13 November) in 1002 AD, as ordered by King Æthelred the Unready?
47. In 1831 a deliberate campaign, called the Massacre of Salsipuedes, to extinguish an indigenous people was carried out where?
48. What was the US TV series 1992-3 featuring a ninja-trained former Special Forces agent who retires to Hawaii and uses his skills both to help those in need and to search for his long-lost son?
49. To whom did a crowd outside the White House chant "Na, na, na, na-hey, hey-goodbye" in January 2009?
50. Health workers in Nigeria and Pakistan were killed in 2012 and 2013 while carrying out vaccination programmes for what?
51. Probity in business dealings can also be described as something or someone being what?
52. With which country is the bouzouki most associated?
53. Which Kingdom in northeastern Africa extended its size and sway during the 500 years before the end of the first century CE and for almost a further 900 years lasted as a major trading empire and civilisation?
54. Of the first underground railways to open in Europe, which was the next to open after the Metropolitan Railway (now part of the London Underground), in 1863?
55. The international Association formed in 1982 and headquartered at the Tiger Tops Jungle Lodge in the Royal Chitwan Park in Nepal governs what sport?
56. The Sete Quedas Falls, said to rival the famous Iguazu Falls complex on the Iguazu River, were obliterated by what?
57. The Australian species of what bird has the longest beak in the world?
58. Which of these was a 2005 hit single for Katie Melua?
59. In 2018 Desiree Linden became the first American in 33 years to win the woman's category in what event?
60. Since its revision in 2015, what is the minimum recommended length for numbers used in RSA cryptography systems?
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