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General Knowledge Quiz 272 (60 MCQs)

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1. What was the first black and white short cartoon film to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack, produced by Walt Disney?
2. According to the saying, what "never boils" ?
3. What is the name of the thick dark green fluid manufactured by the liver?
4. Yvette Williams, Mary Rand, Willye White and Kathy McMillan are all medal winners in which Olympic sport?
5. To which organisation, formed in Tennessee in 1865, was Brian A Scates elected as Leader and President in 1867?
6. In the human body, the adrenal glands are directly above which organ?
7. Where are the headquarters of the Arab League, which currently has 22 members?
8. What is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora belonging to the nightshade family?
9. The sopranos Teresa Stolz and Maria Waldmann premiered which Verdi work in 1871?
10. The sun is hot because of the nuclear transformation of hydrogen to which other gas?
11. What computer game was invented by Toru Iwatani, first released in Japan in May 1980?
12. The name of a brand famous since 1899, and known internationally for its range of canned meat and pies, comes from what major South American port?
13. What branch of mathematics was founded from a paper "On a Characteristic Property of All Real Algebraic Numbers" (1874) by Georg Cantor, who built on the work of Zeno, Bernard Bolzano & Richard Dedekind, which, in turn was followed up by Bertrand Russell, Ernst Zermelo, Abraham Fraenkel & Henri Lebesgue?
14. What is the name for the grades in judo from learner to proficient?
15. Before taking office, both US president George W Bush and his vice president Dick Chaney had been convicted of what?
16. A social experiment conducted with a hoax film star in a shopping mall in Virginia, USA, in April 2012 and posted online, concerned what?
17. Which trophy is affectionately called the "Auld Mug" ?
18. What 1939 film, set during the American Civil War, starring Clark Gable and Vivienne Leigh, was based on a book by Margaret Mitchell?
19. After the STASI, together with its foreign-intelligence service HVA, was dissolved in December 1989 what became the final home of the vast remnants of its even vaster records?
20. What is the third planet from the sun?
21. What was the first name of Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement?
22. "He's got this dream about buyin' some land. He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands. And then he'll settle down, there's a quiet little town, and forget about everything" is a line from which hit song of the 1970s?
23. If you travelled down the Missouri River from Bismarck, North Dakota, which city would you be in when you reached the ocean?
24. In the history of the Iberian Peninsula in the 11th to 13th centuries, what was a "taifa" ?
25. What name is given to the activities of the specially constituted group of British, American, Russian and French judges that tried NAZI Party leaders and German military commanders after World War II?
26. Who is the next in this series:Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, George H. W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Al Gore ..... ?
27. When was the first Super Bowl for American football held?
28. Which of these is not a type of pipe?
29. According to Arthurian legend, who was the father of Galahad?
30. Of these which is North Korea's nearest neighbour?
31. One of the stresses that causes a metal object to break is called metal what?
32. One US gallon is equal to how many pints?
33. Where have Luk Thep, or Angel Children, been popular?
34. What was the result of the internationally noted 1956 Treason Trial, which tried 156 men for treason and lasted about 5 years?
35. How many sports were competed in the 2018 Winter Paralympics?
36. How did a "Just Stop Oil" climate activist disrupt the 2023 World Snooker Championship?
37. In Greek legend, Aphrodite turned Adonis into what?
38. A doping scandal in 2012 involving Lance Armstrong relates to which sport?
39. Which of these is part of a television set?
40. Who play the two lead characters in the UK TV 2010 series Sherlock?
41. In the song 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' what pudding was asked for?
42. Who played Colonel Potter in the TV series "M*A*S*H" ?
43. Which of these is a piece of music by Franz Schubert?
44. The first electric tramway in the former Russian Empire was established in 1892 where?
45. Who led troops against the Russians at the Battle of Borodino?
46. Which of these was a Scottish explorer of the African continent and is credited as being the first Westerner to encounter the Niger River?
47. Which of these men has walked on the moon?
48. In US sport, what do the initials MLB stand for?
49. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces plus one autonomous city named what?
50. In which sport do participants compete for "the Auld Mug" ?
51. In what month is Thanksgiving in the USA?
52. Who initiated the interactive 1961 art work "Painting to Hammer a Nail" ?
53. Who is one of the stars of the film "Frost/Nixon" (2008)?
54. What gas filled the Hindenburg zeppelin which spectacularly crashed and burnt in 1937?
55. Which German-born political scientist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration?
56. What is the main qualification for being considered for the Turner Prize, which has been presented annually since 1984 and is awarded by the Tate gallery? To be .....
57. Who hosted the travel programmes "Around the World in 80 Days" (1989), "Pole to Pole" (1992), "Full Circle" (1997), and "Hemingway Adventure" (1999)?
58. Which British TV series about cars that began in 1977 was presented for over 12 years, until 2015, by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, and features a test driver known as The Stig?
59. Which American swing and jazz guitarist's single string technique combined with amplification, while with Benny Goodman's bands between 1939 and 1941, helped bring the guitar out of the rhythm section and into the forefront as a solo instrument?
60. What gives mead its sweet taste?
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