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General Knowledge Quiz 260 (60 MCQs)

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1. 24 carat is the highest measure of the purity of what precious metal?
2. Which part of the body is made up of a series of vertebrae?
3. Which was the last unit in the International System of Units still directly defined by an artefact?
4. To which of these does "spud" not refer?
5. Which ex-European colony in China is at the mouth of the Canton River?
6. Why was the June horse race at Royal Ascot postponed for a month in 1955?
7. What was the name of the 1571 sea battle when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Spain (including Naples, Sicily and Sardinia), the Republic of Venice, the Papacy, the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospitaller and others, decisively defeated the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire?
8. What game is played on ice with large stones fitted with handles with the aim to place them as close as possible to a fixed mark called a tee?
9. In 2007, David Beckham signed for which of these soccer clubs?
10. What does the acronym "MOAB", the title of the bomb deployed by the USA against IS tunnels and caves in Afghanistan in April 2017, stand for?
11. In 1964, Larisa Latynina, who had represented the USSR and the Ukraine in gymnastics, achieved what Olympic record?
12. What is another name for a wildebeest?
13. Which of these Atlantic Island groups is the northernmost?
14. Many of Thomas Hardy's full-length novels were serialised in a newspaper or magazine before publication as a book. Which was the last of these, serialised from late 1894 and the book published in 1895 following "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" ?
15. The bark of which of these is used to obtain spice?
16. In the Bible, whose return heralded the killing of "the fatted calf" ?
17. Pete Wentz is best known for being the bassist for which American rock band?
18. What ballroom dance is inspired by the bullfight?
19. What are carried on a hod?
20. In World War I, what was the third battle of Ypres, from 31 July to 6 November 1917, also known as?
21. The town of Llivia is an enclave within a country of which its actual region is not part. Which is the region?
22. Where are the Nicobar Islands?
23. Who is the next in this series:Adolf von Baeyer (1905), Henri Moissan (1906), Eduard Buchner (1907), Ernest Rutherford (1908), Wilhelm Ostwald (1909), Otto Wallach (1910) ..... ?
24. Theoretically, what is the minimum number of shots with which a tennis player can win a set?
25. Americans call it a hood. What do the British call it?
26. Which of these is a word for loss of memory as a result of, for example, concussion or psychological disorder?
27. In 1459, the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, England, 2 miles east of Market Drayton in Shropshire, was the first major battle of which campaign?
28. The Malagasy people form the main ethnic group of which country?
29. Which of these, a prominent American realist painter and printmaker, was known for reflecting his personal vision of modern American life?
30. What sport was Thierry Sabine, who founded the Paris-Dakar Rally in 1977, most involved with at the time?
31. What is the English translation of the title of Mozart's opera "Die Zauberflöte" ?
32. Portugal has been invaded and fought over since prehistoric times; however it fought and negotiated its way to independence in 1143, from what kingdom?
33. Where is the Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro designed by Italian engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli, and built in 1589?
34. In the popular telling of the tale, who or what is Snow White?
35. The national flag of which of these does not have a building on it?
36. By what name were Judith Keppel, Chris Hughes, Kevin Ashman, Daphne Fowler and CJ de Mooi known in a long-running British TV series?
37. Which of these Olympics races is the longest?
38. After Prime Minister Bishop had been executed by his Deputy, Bernard Coard, US President Reagan, publicly concerned for the security of 800 US students at St. George's School of Medicine, ordered the invasion of which British Commonwealth country?
39. What is the present name of the city founded in 1781 by Spanish settlers as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles?
40. What happened when James Manclark, one of the founders of the game of elephant polo, was asked to leave the Scotland team for the 2006 World Elephant Polo Championship because he was considered too old?
41. What is the name for the hair that surrounds a lion's neck?
42. Against which team did the new French national rugby team play its first official international test match in 1906?
43. The functional unit of a kidney is a what?
44. Oscar Pistorius from South Africa is particularly well known, as a sportsman, for what?
45. Which country declared war on the British Empire in 1812 due to British restrictions to impede its trade, the forced recruitment of its citizens into the Royal Navy and British support for some of its indigenous people who were fighting them?
46. Claimed by Spain in 1606, notionally Dutch in 1660, halved between the Dutch and Great Britain in 1824 (who divided their part with Germany in 1884), the Dutch half taken by Indonesia in 1962, following which that half has been in almost continuous upheaval, what name did Indonesia give their part in 1973?
47. After making "Halloween" (1978), John Carpenter co-wrote, directed and created the music for which other horror film?
48. Who "was born in a cross-fire hurricane" and "howled at my ma in the driving rain" ?
49. What produces "royal jelly" ?
50. In architecture, what is the name for an ornamental vertical groove in a column?
51. What name was popularly given to the murder of Maria Marten in Polstead, England in 1827 by her lover, which inspired 5 films and songs such as those by the Albion Country Band (1971), Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan on the album "Bone Machine" (1992), and Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman on the album "2" (2004)?
52. What is the name for the area where tyres are changed, petrol is provided and minor repairs are carried out during a motor race?
53. Inaugurated in 1967, the World Lacrosse Championship has been held how often since 1974?
54. In "The Lord Of The Rings", what was the name of Gandalf's horse?
55. Where would you find a "spruiker" ?
56. Singers and performers Joseph Utsler and Joseph Bruce perform under what name?
57. Which of these is a legendary creature, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a mare?
58. A necromancer is a type of what?
59. Which of these represents the greatest number in colloquial terms?
60. Who was Billboard's Artist of the Year for 2013?
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