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General Knowledge Quiz 273 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who played Johnny Fontane in the film "The Godfather" and was previously known as a singer of hits such as "Here In My Heart", "Spanish Eyes", "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Volare" ?
2. Who wrote "Other people see things and say:why?-but I dream things that never were and say:why not?"
3. According to Greek legend, which of these was a cyclops?
4. A "basho" is a tournament for what sport?
5. What is the name of the raised bumps that cover the striking area of a table tennis bat?
6. Author Marion Evans wrote under which pseudonym?
7. Danish astronomer Ole Roemer's experiment in 1676 to time eclipses of Jupiter's moon Io and measure delays, led to what?
8. What is the name for an elaborate seat, frequently with a canopy, strapped to the back of an elephant?
9. What is most nearly related to a caribou?
10. How many years after leaving the USA was Roman Polanski extradited to return to face sentencing on his conviction for rape, and to face further related charges?
11. Which of these was a hit record for trumpeter Eddie Calvert in 1954?
12. Which concert pianist was appointed Prime Minister of the new Polish Republic in 1919?
13. Which football team returned home from the 2010 African Nations Cup in Angola after their bus was shot at and three people were killed?
14. The art of the Tulip Era is associated with what?
15. The five judges for the inaugural Booker Prize for Fiction in 1969 were:a literary critic and editor; a poet, novelist and essayist; a writer, journalist and literary critic; a journalist and literary editor; and who else?
16. When were the Deaflympics first held?
17. When was Futsal devised as a sport?
18. What is the name for the process by which heat is transferred by the motion of a fluid?
19. Which of these is a cereal food made from the coarse particles of wheat produced during grinding?
20. Who was married to Anne More, the father of 12 children, subsequently a reluctant cleric, an MP and a greatly admired poet?
21. Which of these is a song written and performed by Phil Collins that featured in the Disney feature "Tarzan" ?
22. The book publishing firm Virago Press is distinctive because it publishes what works?
23. American soldier and inventor Benjamin Tilghman was noted for inventing what process in the late 19th century?
24. What is the next in the series:Melbourne; Rome; Tokyo; Mexico City?
25. T E Lawrence was known as Lawrence of where?
26. Which of these is the furthest east of Rome?
27. When were the first official Wheelchair Basketball World Championships?
28. The magician David Copperfield broke off his engagement to whom in 1999?
29. Which of these is not a bear (i.e. classified in the Family "Ursidae" )?
30. Scrabble tournament players use special tiles which are not engraved, thereby eliminating the potential for a cheating player to feel for particular tiles in the bag). These are called ..... ?
31. Bartizan, stylobate, breastsummer are terms found in what discipline?
32. How many legs does a millipede ("thousand-foot") usually have?
33. Where is the grave of Jim Morrison, once lead singer of "The Doors" ?
34. When did Hawaii become a state of the USA?
35. In December 2005 a beach at Cronulla in New South Wales in Australia saw what media headline-grabbing happening?
36. Where is the Halley Research Station?
37. Which American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001, consisting of Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Bob Bryar, released the albums "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love", "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge", and "The Black Parade" ?
38. Which Olympic Games were the first to be broadcast worldwide on television?
39. The first Oscar awarded to someone playing the opposite sex was for a role in which film?
40. Two American athletes protested during their respective medal ceremonies at the 2019 Pan American Games and were put on probation for 12 months. What sports did they represent?
41. The owner and promoter of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is also associated with what?
42. The "Apokalypsis Ioannou" is the Greek name for what?
43. What is the word for the projection on a ship that holds a lifeboat?
44. What word in Australia and New Zealand has among its meanings to "undermine another's diggings, work over waste heaps for gold" ?
45. What relation is Mme Marine Le Pen to the founder of the National Front (now National Rally) in France, Jean-Marie Le Pen?
46. Which light-heavyweight boxer won a gold medal when he competed at an Olympic Games for the first time in 1960 at Rome?
47. The cricket game at the Oval in London, England, on 31 August 2017 was interrupted and then called off, due to what?
48. Which is one of the rivers which feeds the large tidal estuary known as Lake Maracaibo?
49. Which of these is a 1952 comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds?
50. The 2001 film "A Beautiful Mind" on the life of Nobel prize-winner John Nash was based on the book of the same name written by whom?
51. What name is given to the unnatural fear of men?
52. The "Duckworth-Lewis method" (or D/L method) is used in which sport?
53. What is the usual diet of armadillos?
54. Which of these is a fashion designer?
55. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, what were the family of Bill, Bob, Barry, John, Susan and Paul known as?
56. The character Mimi appears in what late nineteenth century opera?
57. A tirade by Christian Bale directed at Shane Hurlbut, director of photography was on the set of which 2009 film?
58. In the banking system, highlighted in the 2008-12 international scandals, what does LIBOR stand for?
59. Which is the common name of the perennial herb, crocus sativus, with purple flowers and orange coloured stigmas?
60. Pea aphids are generally wingless, but can develop wings in what conditions?
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