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General Knowledge Quiz 277 (60 MCQs)

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1. What musical is set in Deadwood?
2. Which of these is native to Australia?
3. Benoît B. Mandelbrot worked on a wide range of mathematical problems, including mathematical physics and quantitative finance, but is best known as the father of what?
4. What is the name for a set of marks stamped on gold and silver articles to attest to the genuineness of the metal and the year of testing?
5. Who, about to leave the Animals as bassist, brought Jimi Hendrix to London, signed him to a management and production contract and helped him form The Jimi Hendrix Experience?
6. Whose famous painting, "The Potato Eaters", is of five peasants sitting down to dinner?
7. What was the occupation of W.M. Keck who founded an institution, in 2020 a billion dollar one, supporting scientific, engineering and medical research in the United States?
8. The annual Nobel Prizes are awarded in six areas; which of these is not one of them?
9. Betsy Ross was a figure in the history of the USA in what century?
10. The epiglottis is in what part of the body?
11. Which of these can be seen in the Tower of London?
12. What is another word for journey?
13. Which of these least fits the definition of "Ace" ?
14. "Leggie" is a term that is used in what sport?
15. Where do Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen appear together?
16. The Guayas River is a major watercourse in which country?
17. What are Baluchi, Cheviot, Damara, Galway, Hebridean, Panama, Shetland, South Hampshire, Welsh Hill and Speckled Face?
18. When, for the first time in history, were all 4 of the top acting honours in the Academy Awards awarded to non-Americans?
19. In 1917, who led a Bolshevik insurrection against the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, starting the Bolshevik Revolution, the second phase of the overall Russian Revolution?
20. Which of these is not a chilli pepper?
21. Which of these buildings was the earliest to begin to be built?
22. Theories advanced by Dutch scientist Jan Oort (1900-1992) made significant contributions to, among others, the understanding of what?
23. The Paraná in South America is a what?
24. Olympic gold medallists Gaétan Boucher, Donovan Bailey and Alex Baumann represented which country?
25. For most of the history of Ancient Rome, the toga was a garment worn exclusively by male citizens. After the second century BC, what was the correct attire for female citizens?
26. What is a name for a hand-held weapon, used to strangle someone to death?
27. How are the names Ray Rice, Greg Hardy, Josh Brown and USA's National Football League (NFL) linked in media comment?
28. When was Romania formed as a nation state?
29. What was the subtitle of "Star Wars-Episode 1", released in 1999?
30. In the 1960s, which instrument was associated with Mick Avory, John Steel, Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, Charlie Watts, Dave Clark, Richard Taylor, Viv Prince and Jim McCarty?
31. The War of the First Coalition in Europe was fought between 1792 and 1797 against which forces?
32. Who was the sister of the Emperor Augustus and great niece of Julius Caesar who married Mark Anthony?
33. Gala was the wife (and muse) of which of these artists?
34. What is apraxia?
35. Manfred von Brauchitsch from eastern Germany, who drove in Grand Prix and European Championships in the 1930s winning, and sometimes losing with spectacularly bad luck, was associated with what car?
36. After a long history of forceful action, genocide, theft and forced trading carried out by various countries and trading blocs, Britain captured the islands of Maluku, or the Moluccas, over 1796 to 1810, and held them until 1817. What were the islands called in the west?
37. The first nuclear reactor was built in 1942 in which US city?
38. Between 1950 and 1953 the US forces are said to have dropped 635, 000 tons of bombs and 32, 557 tons of napalm across what country?
39. The river which carved out the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, is thought to have begun in its present course about how long ago?
40. How far away is the nearest known system, as of 2022, that astronomers are reasonably confident contains a black hole?
41. Idi Amin, dictator in Uganda from 1951 to 1960, was a champion in his country in what sport?
42. Generala, or Dados, is what kind of game?
43. Which sea serves the Port of Karachi and Port Bin Qasim in Pakistan?
44. December 1865 Pulaski, Tennessee, USA, saw the first meeting of what notorious organisation?
45. The Schengen Agreement, a treaty signed between five states of the European Community in 1985, provided for the removal of what?
46. The game of Parcheesi involves an appropriately marked gameboard, two dice, players and what else?
47. Which boxer was known as the "Manassa Mauler" ?
48. Which 1982 album by Dire Straits included the tracks "Telegraph Road", "Private Investigations" , "Industrial Disease" and "It Never Rains" ?
49. FIA introduced a new racing category, with its first race in September 2014 in Beijing, China, and finishing June 2015 in London, UK. What distinguishes it from the other categories?
50. Under the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), which followed the War Of The Spanish Succession, Spain ceded Minorca and which other area to Britain?
51. Who were the contenders in the longest cricket test match ever played?
52. Which of these cities is the highest administrative capital in the world?
53. Which film musical ends with "Eliza? Where are my slippers?"
54. Which one of these explains the meaning of "silly" ?
55. Which of these is a hairstyle popular in the late 1950s and 1960s?
56. According to legend, on which event is the sport of hammer throw based?
57. What is a plectrum used for?
58. What do the notes for the "euro" have on the front (recto)?
59. What song title has been recorded by Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse, Steve Winwood, Bad Company, Reel Big Fish, and Louisiana Red?
60. What is gossypiboma?
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