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General Knowledge Quiz 268 (60 MCQs)

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1. For what was Thomas Bewick renowned in the 18th century?
2. Passiflora edulis, a vine native to South America, is also called passionfruit, maracujá or maracuyá in South America, lilikoʻi in Hawaii and by what name in South Africa?
3. Sir Edwin Henry Landseer's painting "Monarch of the Glen" featured what animal?
4. What does the "D" stand for in the acronym "PDA", that refers to a small computer that has the ability to connect to the internet?
5. What was the name of the two spacecraft that photographed the planet Saturn in 1980 and 1981?
6. Which of these establishments is based in Washington, D.C.?
7. When was the North Atlantic Treaty which established NATO signed?
8. Until Lewis Hamilton's win at Spain in 2007, who held the record for being the youngest driver to lead the Formula One Championship?
9. From 1797 to 1805 and from 1814 to 1866, the city of Venice was part of what country?
10. What shape is a meat or cake roulade?
11. The Koran is the sacred book of which religion?
12. The Gunpowder Plot, by discontented Catholics including Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby, was to blow up the British parliament as it was being opened by whom?
13. What are Marimo, a form of Aegagropila linnaei, filamentous algae which grow in or beside water?
14. Which of these connects the cities of Accra, Bordeaux, Lleida, London and Valencia?
15. In 1991 he was given the National Medal of the Arts by President George H. W. Bush, in 2003 was inducted posthumously into the American Tap Dance Hall of Fame, and in 1987 had appeared in which film?
16. What was the name of the computer in Stanley Kubrick's "2001:A Space Odyssey" ?
17. Who is quoted as saying " ..... advertising ..... attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists ..... Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little" ?
18. What is Paris Hilton famous for?
19. Henry Ford established a car factory in which city which became the centre of the motor vehicle manufacturing industry in the USA?
20. In which country is the city of Mecca?
21. Which of these cities is the most northern?
22. Which of these is the name given to a strong, cold, dry north or northwesterly wind which accelerates when it passes through the valleys of the Rhone and the Durance Rivers to the coast of the Mediterranean?
23. Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss's publisher, wagered $ 50 that Seuss could not write a book using only fifty different words. Seuss won by writing which book?
24. Which singer first found her wider audience through performance with the Chick Webb band, and the 1938 song she co-wrote "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" ?
25. The Tibesti Mountains range across which desert?
26. How many military conflicts have been generally given the name of World War?
27. What card game is argued by 19th century authority on card games Henry ("Cavendish") Jones to have been derived ultimately from the pre-16th century Italian game called "ronfa" ?
28. In astronomy, what is AU?
29. In film and photography, what is the name for the distance in front of and behind the subject which appears to be in focus?
30. Who was the first driver to die in a Formula One-related incident?
31. In cockney rhyming slang, what is "Trouble and Strife" ?
32. What is Russia's largest port city on the Pacific Ocean at the head of the Golden Horn Bay not far from Russia's border with China and North Korea, and the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet?
33. In the phrase which might be represented by the abbreviation "a w f a g's b", what does the "b" stand for?
34. A group of what creatures is called an "array" ?
35. What is the hooped whalebone framework for a petticoat, a fashion brought to England by Catherine of Aragon from Spain on her marriage to Prince Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII in 1501, and worn in England until the 17th century?
36. Which of these breeds is most commonly used as a police dog?
37. What is another name for a Lexicon?
38. Which sporting equipment is made principally of fibreglass or carbon-fibre, or a mixture of both?
39. Whose play about the Salem witch trials in the 17th century drew parallels to McCarthyism in the 1950s?
40. Where and when did the character Worzel Gummidge first appear?
41. Which of Little Red Riding Hood's relations was eaten by a wolf?
42. Who was Queen of France as the wife of Henry II (who reigned for 15 years from 1547) and remained the dominant person in France after his death during the reign of 3 of her 4 sons until 1589?
43. Michael Douglas starred in what TV series, set in California, which ran on US TV from 1972 and 1980?
44. Whose campaign is the subject of the 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" ?
45. What was the nickname for the Boeing B-17 long-range bomber used in World War II?
46. Corsica is surrounded by which sea?
47. The 2021 TV series "The Lost Symbol", starring Ashley Zukerman and Eddie Izzard, is a prequel to what?
48. What is the traditional name for someone who is a professional copyist or writer of formal documents, such as deeds or contracts?
49. Who was the Champion at the 2017 Australian Open?
50. What was the musical work by Mike Oldfield released as an album, containing only one track on each side, in 1973?
51. The island of Taiwan is off the coast of where?
52. Which was the first of these four to be an Olympic 100 metres winner?
53. According to the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who raised Tarzan after he was orphaned?
54. Where is the VRAEM?
55. What is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar, the month of fasting, in which Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and so on from dawn to sunset?
56. Which tree, native to Western Australia, has flowers that are used to make honey, and long, straight trunks which provide a deep rich reddish-brown, termite-resistant wood with an attractive grain?
57. Which of these is an inflamed swelling on the skin?
58. What country that adopted its federal constitution in 1848 finally joined the United Nations in 2002?
59. How many degrees are there in the angle on either side of a straight line?
60. Which of these does not directly involve trigonometric functions or calculations?
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