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General Knowledge Quiz 266 (60 MCQs)

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1. Where is London Zoo?
2. Tom Cruise played which role in the 1996 film "Jerry Maguire" ?
3. Daniel Carroll and Akakida Kakhiashvili are unusual in Olympic history for what reason?
4. How does history better know Ioseb Jughashvili, who changed his surname to mean "steel" ?
5. What is the name for the position in the orbit of a heavenly body when it is nearest the sun?
6. Which sport is contested at the biennial international competition known as the Bermuda Bowl?
7. Which king formed the first English parliament?
8. A standard archery target is marked with how many evenly spaced concentric rings?
9. Who won the 1986 World Cup Squash title, breaking another player's five year unbeaten run?
10. The band Aqua, well-known for their chart-topping single "Barbie Girl", released three albums-Aquarium in 1997, Aquarius in 2000 and which other?
11. Before she was a Member of Parliament, what was Margaret Thatcher's occupation?
12. George Fox is associated with the founding of which religion?
13. Which British TV series, a contest to decide the best new pop singer in the UK based on viewer voting, debuted in October 2001 and became an international franchise?
14. Which Scottish sailor was rescued four years after being put ashore by William Dampier at Juan Fernandez in 1703, for insubordination?
15. Where is the Golden Pond which features in the 1981 US film "On Golden Pond" starring Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda?
16. Which of these was a hit for Avril Lavigne in 2002?
17. When did the European Community (previously the European Economic Community) formally cease to exist?
18. Spinach is thought to have been first cultivated about 2, 000 years ago, where?
19. How old was Adrian Mole in the first book in which he appeared?
20. What name is given to a revolving tray that is usually placed in the middle of a dining table?
21. What is the publication known as the Wellcome Apocalypse?
22. What does the German surname Schwarzkopf literally mean?
23. Who refused to enter the US army, saying "I ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong. No Vietcong ever called me nigger" ?
24. Raymond, Celia and Blanche were the real names of the subjects of which painting by David Hockney?
25. Where was the sports firm Adidas founded, and is currently headquartered?
26. A game developed initially in Canada which involved throwing discs at a target or into a "hole", a 50 gallon drum or a hula hoop, is called what?
27. Which of these is a procedure popularly thought of as used for excommunication from the Catholic Church for one who had committed a particularly grievous sin?
28. The Dakar Rally includes classes for cars, motorbikes, and which other?
29. "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe", a 2005 film based on the novel by C. S. Lewis, is set mainly in which land?
30. Which musical is set in River City, Iowa?
31. In which English city is "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4" by Sue Townsend, set?
32. Which dog appears in comics with Shaggy, Fred, Velma & Daphne?
33. What was the name of the result of a nationwide census of virtually everything in England and Wales that was ordered by William I in 1085?
34. Which plant, a bushy herb of the mint family, has a heavy, strong scent, and has been used for centuries in perfumes?
35. Who was the head of the Vichy Government at the end of World War II?
36. Which of these names is associated with the cello?
37. What would you mainly expect to see on the US TV series "The Jeff Probst Show" ?
38. Which make of car has won the most 24 Hour races at Le Mans?
39. Whose body was buried in 1543 in an unnamed tomb in the Catholic church of Frombork, Poland, exhumed in 2005, and buried there for a second time in May 2010 in a ceremony conducted by the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland?
40. What does Trendelenburg's sign indicate?
41. The southern border of which country is with the continental USA?
42. The long-running murder mystery play, "The Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie, was developed from an earlier radio play by the same author called what?
43. What was the first, and only complete, novel, published in 1788, written by 18th-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights Mary Wollstonecraft?
44. Who are the only players in an ice hockey game allowed to be in the referee's crease?
45. What 2009 American musical film directed by Kevin Tancharoen is a loose remake of the 1980 film of the same title by Alan Parker?
46. When you see a banana for sale, where is it likely (if not in the country you are in) to have been grown?
47. What is the lining membrane of the cavity of the eyeball connected to the optic nerve which forms the receptor surface for light rays?
48. What is the next in this series:2000, Me, XP, Vista .....
49. Who was in all of these films: "Alfie", "The Man Who Would Be King", "Educating Rita", "Little Voice", "Batman Begins", "The Dark Knight", "Last Orders" and "The Quiet American" ?
50. One of the unique qualities of the Moconá (or Yucumã) Falls in the Uruguay River is that they run along the river rather than across it, and another is what?
51. What is trokosi as practised among the Ewe people in Benin, Togo and Ghana?
52. Who became the first President of the French Republic by popular vote in 1848, became dictator after a coup in 1851, then ruled as "Emperor of the French" from 1852 to September 1870, when he was captured in the Franco-Prussian War?
53. Ballet dancer Chase Johnsey broke a major custom when he was offered the opportunity to dance in female corps roles in what 2018 English National Ballet production?
54. Once a fish has been gutted and butterflied, what turns it into a kipper?
55. An early type of futures market, and a huge speculative bubble and collapse, related to what?
56. After winning the silver in equestrian dressage 1932 Summer Olympics, why was Swedish rider Bertil Sandström demoted to last?
57. What area became a country and independent from Australia in 1975?
58. With what art form is Isadora Duncan associated?
59. What name is given to the list of all the accounts contained in the ledger of a business and their values, from which most financial reports are produced?
60. A honey badger, or ratel, despite its name and black and white appearance is not anatomically as closely related to a badger as to which animal?
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