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General Knowledge Quiz 255 (60 MCQs)

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1. Leslie Neilsen starred in which series of 3 films (1988, 1991, 1994)?
2. Who was the American who, in 1871, collected animals and freaks for a travelling circus, menagerie and museum, which by 1872 was billing itself as "The Greatest Show on Earth" ?
3. Where was the first Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting held, in 1989?
4. What is the familiar name for the British flag?
5. Which of these was the last to head the USSR?
6. What is a "scion" ?
7. What song plays at the end of the film "You've Got Mail" when the two lead characters meet in the park?
8. What is a pismire, or pishmire?
9. In 1745 a type of glass container was invented, dubbed the Leyden (or Leiden) jar, to do what?
10. The bars of which of these instruments, first marketed in its current form in 1928, are made of aluminium, each of which has a device to give a tremolo effect to the sounds produced?
11. Which is the gerund in the sentence "we listened to the whispering" ?
12. Michael Phelps who during the Summer Olympics 2012 brought his swimming medal total to a record 18 golds represents which country?
13. What is the highest honour awarded in Denmark?
14. On 3 June 2010, an episode of which British soap opera, which featured a hostage situation involving guns, was postponed after it was due to air on the same day as a man shot 12 people dead and injured several more in Cumbria, England?
15. In Rudyard Kipling's story of The Elephant's Child in his "Just So Stories" which was the "great grey-green, greasy" river?
16. Who was Vice President to Bill Clinton's presidency, which was from 1993 to 2001?
17. In Billy Wilder's film "Sunset Boulevard", in which Gloria Swanson often said the line, "All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up", who played Cecil B DeMille?
18. At which Olympic Games did a water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union end as a pitched battle between the teams?
19. Where was the first permanent European settlement established in North America?
20. From 1960 to 1979, where was the largest stained glass installation in the world?
21. Who destroyed the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem?
22. What is the proper term for the # symbol, often referred to as a "number sign", "hash" or "pound sign" ?
23. What does "B" stand for in the term "BPM" in relation to music?
24. Which platform game developed by Nintendo and first released in 1985 has generated multiple versions and spinoffs?
25. What Louisiana Creole dish is traditionally made with meats, vegetables, stock and rice?
26. The Guarani Aquifer lies under Paraguay, Brazil, and what other country or countries?
27. The Worlds Championship which in 2018 was won by China's Invictus team, is for players of what?
28. What is likely to be made with a hurdy-gurdy?
29. What would you expect if you asked for Focaccia in an Italian restaurant?
30. What was regarded at one time as the 27th letter of the English alphabet, and was formally in the alphabet from at least the 10th century CE?
31. What name, currently used for the principal chamber of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, was given by Sinn Fein to the revolutionary parliament of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic that they set up in Dublin in 1919?
32. A "land run" into which current state of the USA began at noon on 22 April 1889, when an estimated 50, 000 people lined up to race to claim 160 acre (0.65 km2) pieces of the available 2 million acres (8, 000 km²)?
33. What is a bassinet?
34. What is the meaning of "corpus delicti" ?
35. What is the word in music for any set of different notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously?
36. Who was known as "The Waltz King" ?
37. Trophies of the same name were awarded to the winners of a world soccer competition run by UEFA and CONMEBOL, a first-class cricket competition run by the ICC for 12 of its associate members, a baseball competition sanctioned by the IBAF and a basketball competition between each of the European Cup winners. What is the name of these trophies?
38. The crane fly is also known by what name?
39. Which country did long distance runner Emil Zatopek represent?
40. What are both Tony Kushner and August Strindberg known as?
41. When was there a vote and decree to abolish the French slave trade and slavery in France's overseas colonies?
42. Countries are variable in conducting a census of their populations, the count often being associated with taxation needs as was one prime example in 1086, the Domesday Book in England. What century are censuses thought to have been first carried out in England's neighbour, France?
43. What chemicals are used to transmit messages to other animals of the same species?
44. Giuseppe Rossi, who was born and raised in Clifton, New Jersey, USA, was the top scorer with 4 goals in the men's association football tournament at the 2008 Olympics. Which team did he play for?
45. Who created St Trinians, a fictional girls' boarding school, the subject of 8 books and 7 films between 1954 and 2009?
46. What stretches for about 1, 000 km north to south down the coastal western border of the Atacama Desert?
47. Ferdinand de Lesseps was a French diplomat, and a builder of what?
48. What "Commonwealth" was formed on 1 January 1901, with Lord Hopetoun as Governor-General and Edmund Barton as Prime Minister?
49. When were the debts incurred by Montreal, Canada, in staging the 1976 Olympics finally met in full?
50. In 1957, there were how many states in the USA?
51. Which of these was a nurse who was a heroine (from the British and Allied point of view) in World War I?
52. At Christmas, it is customary to exchange kisses beneath a sprig of which plant?
53. The phrase to be in the "limelight" refers to burning of what as a brilliant light source in old theatre and music hall performances?
54. Which 1962 film, directed by Tony Richardson from a script by Alan Sillitoe, is about a boy (played by Tom Courtenay) in Borstal and his defiance of the accepted norms of British society?
55. What was the first ballet written by Tchaikovsky?
56. What internationally recognised unit of length equal to 0.1 nanometre (1 × 10-10 m) is often used to express the size of atoms, lengths of chemical bonds and the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, and in technology for parts of integrated circuits?
57. Emilio Lavazza, who died in February 2010, ran a company which was associated with what product?
58. In which of these areas would you be most likely to find a traditional dwelling called a yurt?
59. Drummer Rick Allen lost an arm in an accident but continued to perform with which band?
60. The San Andreas fault line runs through which of these cities?
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