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General Knowledge Quiz 271 (60 MCQs)

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1. What surgery most benefits from the Trendelenburg position?
2. Helen of Troy's face was said to have launched a thousand ..... what?
3. What name is given to the unnatural fear of death?
4. John Mills won an Oscar in 1970 for his role in which film?
5. What six-note trumpet fanfare, composed in 1946, is often played at the beginning of sporting events in the USA?
6. What TV series was set on Craggy Island?
7. Which law enforcement agency was established in 1908 as a branch of the U S Department of Justice?
8. Which of these shapes does not contain a right angle?
9. If 3 consecutive numbers add up to 27, what is the smallest of those numbers?
10. What is "the American smooth" ?
11. Who discovered the moon of Saturn called Titan in 1655?
12. Who is said by some experts to be the "master" referred to in the English nursery rhyme "Baa baa black sheep" ?
13. Who was the other half of the Bucket household, played by actor Clive Swift, in the UK TV comedy series "Keeping Up Appearances" ?
14. The character "Eliza Doolittle" in "My Fair Lady" was originally created by whom?
15. What series of books would you go to to read about Snowy, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus and Thomson and Thompson?
16. In biology what are Retzius lines?
17. What name is given to someone who enforces racing rules and regulations at many types of race track?
18. What was the name of Margaret Thatcher's husband?
19. Where was the prophet Muhammad born?
20. Yukio Hatoyama, who became Prime Minister of Japan in September 2009, announced his resignation on 2 June 2010, citing what as the main reason?
21. What is common to the 1953 films "Man in the Dark", "House of Wax", "The Mad Magician", "Dangerous Mission", "Son of Sinbad", "Melody", "Fort Ti" and "It Came from Outer Space" ?
22. Which of these novelists was born in South Africa?
23. What is the Prix Goncourt awarded for?
24. Where are the Onyang hot springs?
25. Walter Gropius is associated with what activity?
26. What was the stage name of Jean François Gravelet, a French acrobat who crossed Niagara Falls in 1859 on a tightrope 160 feet above the water?
27. In both world wars, what did the British call German submarines?
28. Which of these is the name of one of the daughters of Paul and Linda McCartney?
29. What was the first event to be competed in the modern Olympic Games?
30. What book was to have been called, in translation, "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice" ?
31. Which board, for a standard game, has the most squares?
32. Which of these is a character in the "Alien" series of films?
33. Shane Smith is known for co-founding what media company?
34. Calvados brandy, from the French region of Basse-Normandie or Lower Normandy, is made with which of these?
35. Which constellation, that lies between Taurus to the west and the dim Cancer to the east, with Auriga and Lynx to the north and Monoceros and Canis Minor to the south, is associated with the myth of Castor and Pollux, collectively known as the Dioscuri?
36. Where did Sherlock Holmes lose his struggle with Moriarty but did not die after all?
37. Which couple were married on 7 April 1997, had a son named Lennon Francis in September 1999, and divorced a year later?
38. In 1912 in Sweden 17 national federations formed the IAAF; what did the second "A" stand for?
39. The 1929 silent comedy film "Spite Marriage" was co-directed by Edward Sedgwick and which of its stars?
40. How many nouns are in the following sentence: "Roger told his dog not to jump on the furniture with muddy feet" ?
41. With what area are the Beaker people, or the Beaker Culture, most associated?
42. Where is a fore-topgallant found?
43. Who established a precision tool making business in Manchester in 1883, and perfected a system of standard measurements and gauges?
44. Who was Europe's captain in the 2008 Ryder Cup?
45. Which of these is a "lexicon" ?
46. Which of these performs a "veronica" ?
47. Nicholas II was the last Emperor of which country until he abdicated following the February Revolution of 1917?
48. On what were the live action films in a French series 1999-2012 depicting the adventures of two warriors from ancient Roman-occupied Europe based?
49. Which residence of Scots kings was built next to a ruined abbey by James IV, and rebuilt by Charles II?
50. What is the study of the relation between the motion of a body and the forces acting on it?
51. Where in the body would the bone known as a baculum be found?
52. New York city consists of the boroughs of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, and which other?
53. The crater Grimaldi on the Moon is named after whom?
54. Why were the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles boycotted by the Soviet Union and most of the communist world (though China, Romania, and Yugoslavia participated)?
55. Which of these was not the name of one of the three "Angels" in the first TV series of "Charlie's Angels", first broadcast in the US in 1976 / 1977?
56. Who claimed to be a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and worked to achieve the independence of Abyssinia?
57. What is the aim of the game known as Scythe?
58. In which of these games can the term Grand Slam apply?
59. What year did Shakespeare die?
60. In Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and among Persian-speaking populations of Central Asia, what is the sport called that involves two teams of horse riders, a dead goat and few rules?
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