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General Knowledge Quiz 276 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which Prince appears in the title of an opera by Borodin?
2. Which of these would not be acceptable to a vegetarian in their diet?
3. In the US election held on 7 November 2000, court cases over the results from which state delayed the announcement of results for over a month?
4. What is the overall term for the gases which surround a planet?
5. Which ancient strategy board game is associated with Madagascar?
6. In 1964, who became the first male to appear on the cover of "Playboy" magazine?
7. "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives", which won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, was made where?
8. The geographic region of Patagonia, so called because Magellan described the native people whom his expedition thought to be giants as "patagón", is where?
9. Which is the plant, a member of the Amaranth family, native to the Andes in South America, the seeds of which are a staple food crop in parts of South America and are now grown around the world?
10. What name is given to the product of mass and velocity?
11. How many spokes are there in a Trivial Pursuit wheel?
12. George Fox, a shoemaker born at Penny Drayton Leicestershire, founded which religious group in the 17th century?
13. What is one of the characteristics of the epipelagic zone of an ocean?
14. What is a more formal name for ear wax?
15. Which of these countries does not observe within its civil dating system either the Julian Calendar or the Gregorian?
16. What appeared in a newspaper for the first time on 22 March 1904 in the USA's "Daily Illustrated Mirror" ?
17. Vlastimil Hart together with 11 colleagues won the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for documenting what in relation to dogs?
18. When and where was lethal injection first legalised as a means of executing the death penalty in the US?
19. Who was born in 1812 near Porstmouth, spent his childhood in Chatham and London, married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, separated from her in 1858, had much of his work published serially in journals, and died in 1870?
20. Which TV series had, as some of the characters, pigs called Pinky and Perky, a goat called Geraldine and a cockerel called Lenin?
21. What is a means for storing movies and so on, on a disc?
22. Early episodes of UK TV series "Dr Who", "Z-Cars", and most of the iconic "Not Only ..... But Also" share what?
23. Which of these songs is from "Annie Get Your Gun" ?
24. Well known in the 1960s, what was the profession of Holland-Dozier-Holland?
25. What word means the spread of a cancer from one organ or part to another non-adjacent organ or part?
26. What medical apparatus is a large metal cylinder with a compressor that enables the internal air pressure to be changed rhythmically around 12 times per minute?
27. Which singer and songwriter of the 1970s and 1980s was the first to have three consecutive double albums hit #1 on the Billboard charts, and was the first female artist to have four number-one singles in a thirteen-month period?
28. Where did Karen Blixen return home in 1931 after leaving Kenya, and start publishing the books (under the pen name Isaak Dinesen) for which she became well-known internationally?
29. Which of these paintings was painted first?
30. Which board game depends on each competitor drawing destination cards, railway car cards and locomotive cards?
31. A consciously didactic 1857 novel by British lawyer, judge, politician and author Thomas Hughes writes of whose school days?
32. Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward all became infamous in the UK for their part in what event in the 1960s?
33. Who played Rick, the self-proclaimed anarchist who writes poetry and calls himself "The People's Poet" in the UK TV series "The Young Ones" ?
34. Who played David Brent in the English version of the TV series "The Office" ?
35. What geometric figure could be constructed from the difference in the sums of the internal angles of an octagon and a pentagon?
36. What are scotch bonnet, capsicum and Trinidad Perfume?
37. Who is reported as saying "We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam [sic] is the history we make today" ?
38. If someone has been swinged what is most likely to be the case?
39. Gabriel Loire, Mordecai Ardon and Marcelle Ferron are known for their art work in what medium?
40. Who was associated with Sir Donald Bailey in completing the development of the Bailey Bridge?
41. In which religion or faith is Olympus the home of deities?
42. Which of these is an English actress known for her work in the films "My Summer of Love", "The Devil Wears Prada", and the BBC TV film "Gideon's Daughter" ?
43. When mountain climbers hammer in and extract pitons damage is done to the rocks. Clean climbing since 1970 has largely replaced them with what?
44. The successive black notes on a piano is an example of what?
45. What is the basis for a pina colada?
46. These are the last lines of which play:H:Shall the worms declare his truth? Go to him, take his shame away. E:He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him.
47. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is based on principles which include what?
48. What name was given to 6 labourers in Dorset, England, who formed a "Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers" and in 1834 were sentenced to 7 years transportation for "administering unlawful oaths" ?
49. New Zealand singer and songwriter Lorde won the 2014 Grammy for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for her debut single; what was the song?
50. Which of these is an American jazz musician best known for playing the vibraphone?
51. Which celebrated athlete announced that their last Olympic competition would be the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil?
52. American graphic designer and film maker Saul Bass commented: "I'm a working man. Perhaps I'm luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good" . Which of the words in the comment is a gerundive?
53. Ronnie Verrell, an English jazz drummer who played in The Ted Heath Orchestra, The Syd Lawrence Orchestra, Jack Parnell's ATV Orchestra and for "Sunday Night at the London Palladium" also provided the drumming for what?
54. Which weapon, common in the 14th and 15th centuries and still carried by the Yeomen of the Guard in Britain, consisted of a pike and an axe on a 5 foot long staff?
55. Which of these is a form of heavy sword with one cutting edge, that is usually curved towards the point?
56. In what field was Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973) particularly well-known?
57. Who, known primarily for dreamy, other-worldly scenes, painted his first album cover in 1968 for "Gun", in 1971 began a partnership with the progressive rock band "Yes" and created covers for "Budgie", "Uriah Heep" & "Gentle Giant" ?
58. Which two countries have dominated the gold medals in the Bandy World Championship since it was established in Finland in 1957?
59. In 2015 Swiss explorers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg completed what?
60. A large long-haired bovine animal native to central and northern Asia has a species which is farmed for milk, meat, pelt and other products. Which of these would be milked?
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