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General Knowledge Quiz 269 (60 MCQs)

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1. In December 2015 what was recorded about Lake Poopó, a saline lake, the second largest high altitude lake in Bolivia?
2. What computer that began operation in 1954 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, UK, could make calculations in 20 seconds that, it was said, "would keep 100 girls using calculating machines occupied for 8 hours" ?
3. I want to be rich and effluent is an example of what?
4. When UK scientist Sir Timothy Berners-Lee finalised and implemented the first world wide web page on the internet at the end of 1990, for whom was he solving a problem?
5. Beef clod, which is prized for tasty beef dishes, is a cut from which part?
6. The Koran was written in what language?
7. One of the 50 states of the USA does not use the system based on English, and subsequently USA, common law which the rest use, but bases its civil law on Spanish and which other law system?
8. Where was the oath "God's bodykins" first recorded, later appearing in minced form as "Ods bodikins" ?
9. What is the deepest known part of the world's oceans, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust?
10. Robert Mallet, a Victorian geophysicist, engineer and inventor, conducted a controlled experiment on a beach in southern Ireland as part of his seminal work in studying what and creating the science of what?
11. Which of these is a common name for the small bird of prey, falco columbarius, known also as a pigeon hawk?
12. Taekwondo was a demonstration sport at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics. Where and when did it become a full medal sport?
13. The "Curse of the Bambino" was thought to have struck what baseball team until they won the World Series in 2004?
14. Who was the first US president to visit the People's Republic of China and when did he do it?
15. John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, (1883-1946) was active as a what?
16. Which German-American structural engineer and designer was Chief Engineer for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco?
17. Which country has the highest population density in the world?
18. In its early use in the Middle Ages, what was one of the main meanings of "daunger" (modern "danger")?
19. Which of these is a mythical monster that possessed a deadly touch to plants and an evil eye that killed humans and animals?
20. In general what is the maximum time applied to competitive eating contests, where the aim is to eat the most of some food in a set time?
21. What was the name of the alliance of trading cities and their guilds, each with their own law system and with armies for mutual aid, that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland, from the 13th to 17th centuries?
22. What is the common name for the sternum?
23. Which of these qualities are actor Geoffrey Rush, artist David Hockney, composer Alexander Scriabin, writer Vladimir Nabokov, and poet Bob Dylan understood to have shared?
24. The game, scatter jacks, jackstones, snobs, astragalus, tali and dibs among other names which has been played in various forms in every continent, was played with bones from what part of an animal's body?
25. Where does the phrase "show me the money" come from?
26. "Thrombus" is another word for which of these?
27. Which was most used by Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote?
28. Who or what were hoplites?
29. Mixing the colours red and blue results in what colour?
30. As at 2019, which country leads in medals in equestrian events at the Olympic Games?
31. The ostrich, emu, rhea, kiwi and the extinct "elephant bird" of Madagascar and moa are all types of what diverse group of large, flightless birds?
32. In 2015 there was an upsurge of inaugural national championships in what sport?
33. Which country forcibly colonised the island now known as Taiwan in 1895?
34. Soccer player George Best once said that he spent 95% of his money on wine, women and song, and the other 5% he ..... what?
35. What is common between Marion Jones, Waterford Crystal and Ben Johnson?
36. "The Shining Path" is a Maoist revolutionary movement based where?
37. Whose writings were the vivid and eloquent force which in the 5th century CE cemented into Christian teachings the doctrine of original sin still preached in some of Christianity?
38. His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations (ions with a positively charged carbon atom) via superacids, he worked first in Hungary then Canada and the USA, and in 1994 was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Who was he?
39. The 520 men and 197 women who arrived in 11 British ships at Botany Bay, Australia, on 26 January 1788, were mostly what?
40. Late in July 2009, what phenomenon affected the daily lives of people in the cities of Chengdu, Chongquing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, China?
41. The refugee camps Shatila and Shabra, the scenes of a massacre in 1982, were in which country?
42. Stan Lee was co-creator of The Fabulous Four, The Hulk, Iron Man, X-Men and which of these other superheroes?
43. Choreographers Max Perry, Jo Thompson Szymanski and Scott Blevins were instrumental in developments of what in the 1990s and later?
44. How many sons of Philip IV of France became King?
45. What did some media in Russia claim was selling like hot cakes, or selling out, in the UK in 2017?
46. What chemical element takes its name from the Roman name for Paris?
47. The International Olympic Committee removed which two events from the programme for the 2012 Olympic Games in London?
48. In motor racing, what are "slicks" ?
49. What are the Kelpies of Falkirk?
50. Events at Appomattox Court House were one of the events that heralded the end of which war?
51. When did the USSR and Japan sign a Joint Declaration to end the state of war that existed during World War II and provided for the restoration of normal diplomatic relations?
52. In what language was the "Kalevala" written?
53. Who would use a creel?
54. What game is set in a mansion where players attempt to solve a murder, the solution requiring the components of "Suspect", "Weapon", and "Room" ?
55. What is a cruft?
56. Which of these is an open world, 3rd person shooter video game, set in the fictional Pacific City for the Xbox 360 released in 2007, that was conceived by Realtime Worlds' founder, David Jones?
57. Which British band, a four-piece when it formed in the early 1960s, is still touring although only the singer and guitarist/composer, are still alive?
58. Which computer company produced the BBC Micro which dominated the market in the 1980s?
59. From 1794 until 1976, when it became independent as the Republic of Seychelles, the Seychelles was governed by which other country?
60. How did the results of their athletes in weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul affect the Bulgarian weightlifting team?
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