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General Knowledge Quiz 261 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the name for the traditional French spread made from olives, capers, anchovies and olive oil?
2. What was the name of the bank manager in the TV series "The Beverley Hillbillies" ?
3. Which of these is a coin?
4. Which of these was the main cause of Britain entering World War II?
5. Which was the first Summer Olympics to which the People's Republic of China returned following the 1952 Games when it had made its debut?
6. Kehaar was a character in what animated film?
7. Tales of the supernatural or horror are often described by their publicists as what?
8. What is a violet variety of quartz used in jewellery, that the ancient Greeks and Romans believed protected its owner from drunkenness?
9. What makes England's "White Cliffs of Dover" appear white?
10. Which of these is not a definition of a "pollard" ?
11. Who has been married to Randy Gosch from 1970 to 1975, Casey Coates from 1977 to 1993, and to actress Mary Steenburgen since 1995?
12. A prune is the dried fruit of which tree?
13. When the game "Cluedo" was released by Waddingtons in 1949 how many rooms were possible murder sites in the mansion where the murder has been committed?
14. The first US National Champions of which sport were Team Roslindale when the first sanctioned Official Nationals were played in Leominster Ma in 1974?
15. Bavaria is a state of which country?
16. The main studios for which of these record labels were originally based in Detroit?
17. What are drongos?
18. What is an alternative name for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?
19. Charlemagne ruled over which of these?
20. What is a common characteristic of the Titicaca Grebe, the Greater Rhea, the Inaccessible Island Rail, and the Campbell Teal?
21. The Olympic Hymn at the opening ceremony at the 1992 Summer Olympics was sung in what language or languages?
22. Who was the last president of South Africa before Nelson Mandela?
23. Where would one most usually find a wishbone boom?
24. What 1949 film about racial prejudice in the USA by Clarence Brown, from a novel by William Faulkner, involved a black boy, a white boy and an old woman assisting a black man accused of murder?
25. Which South American country counts at least 5, 000 islands (larger than 100, 000 m2 (1, 100, 000 sq ft)) in its territory?
26. What major sporting event was held, also in London, shortly after the London 2012 Summer Olympics?
27. On what day in 1066 was William I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey?
28. What were antimacassars used for?
29. Which of these is a restaurant?
30. What is Teeline?
31. What are the first names of comedians French and Saunders?
32. When C.B.C. Sales Film Corporation changed its name in 1924 to Columbia Pictures, what did the logo they developed show?
33. Which of these is not a prison in the state of New York, USA?
34. Which US President was assassinated by Leon Frank Czolgosz at the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York?
35. In September 2009 the wife of which newly-elected Prime Minister made international news because of her claims to have been abducted to Venus by aliens?
36. The mountain massif called Maxwell Montes contains the highest point on the surface of which planet?
37. Where did Harold of England fight William of Normandy in 1066?
38. Marcel Duchamp, whose work was associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, abandoned his successful career as an artist in the later part of his life to do what?
39. What is a group of rooks called?
40. With what country is the sombrero associated?
41. Who, in 1919, achieved the first nuclear disintegrations by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles?
42. The constellation Volpecula means what?
43. The Hisatsinom, "ancient people", called Anaasází by their enemies, or Pueblo ("village" or "people") by the Spanish who observed their architecture in the 16th century, emerged as a distinct culture about the 12th century BCE. When were they last identified as distinct?
44. The first Victoria Crosses, Britain's highest military order, were made from what material?
45. What country was selected in December 2010 to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup competition?
46. William Shakespeare wrote plays set in Italy, Denmark, Scotland, England, Greece, Troy, Egypt, Tyre and more; what was his nationality?
47. The Vandals sacked which city in 445 AD?
48. What was the subject of the majority of the published works of Augustinian friar, Gregor Mendel, whose observations were the seed for the modern discipline of genetics?
49. What was a major significance in Europe and the western world of the book the "Liber Abaci" (1202)?
50. Which island is the home to a breed of tailless cat?
51. Which of these people have not been married to Tom Cruise?
52. Who said, at a critical time in the history of inventions, "Mr Watson, come here-I want you" ?
53. Which of these people was a boxer?
54. Birds, reptiles, amphibians and egg-laying mammals share a common feature, which is what?
55. What is the name of the ripple effect caused by spectators standing up successively and raising their arms?
56. In 2022 Saburo Teshigawara was awarded the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in what?
57. Traditionally, what can women do on 29 February that they cannot do on any other date?
58. Cirrhosis is the name for what change in the liver?
59. Which is the province of the People's Republic of China which lies furthest south-west?
60. In 1655 a publication subtitled "Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon" established what scientific term now in common usage?
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