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General Knowledge Quiz 275 (60 MCQs)

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1. Francis Drake captained the ship "Revenge" during naval engagements concerning what?
2. What is it about maple wood that makes it so popular for making musical instruments?
3. Which mathematician, astronomer and physicist is known in the West for his discoveries on light and vision, among other seminal scientific achievements, and as the father of modern optics?
4. The Motion Picture Production Code, a set of industry self-censorship guidelines relating to content for most motion pictures released by major studios in the US, was first adopted in 1930, enforced from 1934, and replaced when?
5. Which King was less than a year old when he became King of England?
6. Harold I of England was nicknamed "Harold ..... '' what?
7. What fashion in French architecture had much to do with the regency of Marie de' Medici? (The greatest architects of the style were Salomon de Brosse and Jacques Lemercier.)
8. A fathom has varied slightly in definition over the hundreds of years since the term was first used, but is currently standardised as what?
9. Following the Battle of Borodino, fire raged for four days, destroying an estimated three-quarters of which city?
10. How many players from each team usually make up a rugby sevens scrum?
11. Who wrote "The Thirty Nine Steps" ?
12. "Tiramisu" is a type of what?
13. Pina Bausch (1940-2009), Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is recognised as a significant contributor to development internationally in what field?
14. How many countries border France?
15. The River Danube is on what continent?
16. In the United Kingdom, the "Civil List" covered whose expenses?
17. Which British journalist has written biographies of Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky, David and Victoria Beckham, Madonna, and Tom Cruise?
18. The Pamir mountains lie mostly in which country?
19. Which government banned the Ainu language in 1869?
20. Why is there is a 4.9 m-radius semi-circular "circle" at each end of a netball court?
21. Who was the last British monarch to die in battle?
22. If Christmas Day falls on a Tuesday, on what day will New Year's Day fall?
23. Who coined the expressions 'a curate's egg' and 'bedside manner', and wrote three novels, including "Peter Ibbetson" (adapted to a 1935 film starring Gary Cooper and an opera), and another which gave its name to the trilby, a type of hat?
24. Ex-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plays which musical instrument?
25. The island of Honshū is part of which country?
26. What was the effect of the Treaty of Kiel concluded at the beginning of 1814?
27. A way of looking at mathematical relationships and operations using abstract symbols instead of specific numbers is called what?
28. Who played the title role in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992)?
29. Apart from his partnership with Sir Arthur Sullivan in musicals, Sir W. S. Gilbert wrote several plays. What was the central character in his last play "The Hooligan, A Character Study" (1911)?
30. Which of these is a type of vegetable?
31. Which of these is not a type of newt found in Britain?
32. Who was the first woman to walk in space as well as, 36 years later, to reach the deepest known spot in the ocean?
33. Which of these is a Greek island?
34. When were the first world championships in alpine skiing held?
35. What word game, a spin-off to Scrabble that allows proper nouns and words spelled backwards to be used and allows players to "steal" letter tiles from other players, was announced on 6 April 2010?
36. What is used in the technique for opening a champagne bottle called "sabrage" ?
37. Who or what did the music hall performer mean when he sang of "my old dutch" ?
38. The commentator for British TV series "Robot Wars" is better known as a British commentator for what?
39. What was the subject for which New Zealand scientist Alan MacDiarmid was co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
40. In what country is the arid scrub area known as the Great Sandy Desert and associated with Kurtal?
41. What happens when someone is defenestrated?
42. "The Four Seasons" was composed for which solo instrument, with orchestra?
43. In 1922 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was concluded (allowing for the Irish Free State), insulin first treated diabetes successfully, James Joyce's "Ulysses" was published, and what else?
44. Which American TV sitcom, originally aired from 1974 to 1984, presented an idealized vision of life in 1950s and early 1960s America?
45. What was at one time known as Van Diemen's Land is a southern area in which country?
46. Which science fiction writer developed "The Three Laws of Robotics" ?
47. Paramaribo is the capital of which country?
48. The 19th century painting, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, by Edouard Manet (two men and two women) possibly drew inspiration from the 16th century The Pastoral Concert by Giorgione or Titian (three men and two women); what is a feature of the two paintings?
49. Kelly Slater is an American professional sportsman in what field?
50. The warm Agulhas Current runs along what African coastline?
51. Who was Emperor of Rome during the great fire of 64AD?
52. According to Jewish tradition, whose chair is set ready at each passover meal in case he reappears to herald the coming of the Messiah?
53. What is the name for attacks on Jewish communities, especially those instigated by the authorities?
54. Who won the Super Bowl in 2006?
55. Sean Connery won his only Academy Award (for Best Supporting Actor) in what 1987 film?
56. New Zealand celebrates Matariki, Maori New Year in late May or early June, marking the rising in the southern hemisphere of the seven stars of what?
57. When Dutch seafarer and explorer Abel Tasman sailed from Batavia in the Heemskerck and the Zeehaen in 1642 which of these was one of the countries (new to Europeans) he sighted and very briefly explored?
58. The Mekong River rises in the Tibetan plateau and runs through or between six countries-China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and which other?
59. Where in South America is the torrent duck a resident breed?
60. Which of these instruments belongs to the percussion family?
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