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General Knowledge Quiz 278 (60 MCQs)

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1. English Quaker and businessman John Cadbury (1801-1889) founded a company making what?
2. The London market at Smithfield deals in what?
3. How would a redingote usually be treated?
4. In a civilisation which flourished for about 700 years, until the Kingdom was annexed by Rome in 106 CE, and which left internationally known city ruins in Petra, what are the people known as?
5. Raph Koster, Brad McQuaid, Mark Jacobs, Brian Green and J. Todd Coleman are influential in MMORPG design. What is MMORPG?
6. Which scholar and lawyer who became Speaker of the House of Commons and Treasurer of the Exchequer was beheaded for treason in 1534 after disagreeing with Henry VIII being head of the church?
7. Desultory activity is marked by what?
8. Why is the Calcutta Cup, a rugby union trophy awarded to the winner of the annual Six Nations Championship match between England and Scotland, so called?
9. A web serial comedy dealing with the running of the world, first uploaded to the web in 2006, is called what?
10. How did Eric Robert Rudolph, an American terrorist, try to disrupt the Summer Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta?
11. The name "vadose" for one of the Earth's soil layers comes from a Latin word meaning what?
12. Which film starring Steve McQueen featured a car chase through the streets of San Francisco?
13. What is most likely to be seen at the World Freestyle Championships, held in white water venues?
14. Where and when was the first international High Speed Telegraphy (HRT) World Championship held?
15. What is the world governing body WFFA, founded in 2017, concerned with?
16. Where is Denmark Strait?
17. Which cup was originally known as the "Royal Yacht Squadron Cup" , the "RYS Cup for One Hundred Sovereigns" , the "One Hundred Guinea(s) Cup" and the "Queen's Cup" ?
18. What weapons is Xingtian, or Hsing T'ien, a hero of Chinese classical mythology, usually shown wielding?
19. What is the wine-tasting term for the aroma, smell or bouquet of a wine?
20. In 2016 which country invaded northern Syria, and continued to occupy the territory it took?
21. Calvin Klein is associated with which of these brands?
22. Which of these became the highest-placed British dressage rider in the Olympics in 1984 with the horse Wily Trout, won the team gold medal at the 1997 European Championships with the British Event Team, and won the Badminton Horse Trials in 1998 with Word Perfect?
23. Which is one of the matters that marked 2003 of the basketball programme in Baylor University, a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas?
24. Following August 1945 Mongolia gained its independence from the Republic of China as a result of what?
25. Redfoo and Sky Blu were members of which electronic rock band?
26. The early kings of Scotland are buried on which island?
27. When the Chinese Nationalist Party lost the civil war to the Communist Party in 1949, it relocated to which island and established Taipei as the Republic Of China's provisional capital?
28. The book "Dirty Sexy Politics", released in 2010, was about whose US presidential campaign?
29. The Bombay duck or bummalo is what type of creature?
30. Which of these was a US DJ who was famously disciplined in February 2004 for producing a show described by his boss as "offensive and insulting to anyone with a sense of common decency" ?
31. What is a "billet doux" ?
32. What colour is closest to picallili?
33. Sarah Radclyffe and who else was behind the 1983 formation of Working Films, which was the company behind films such as "My Beautiful Laundrette", "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "The Big Lebowski", "The Theory of Everything" and "The Danish Girl" ?
34. Which birds from around Papua New Guinea and brought to Europe were believed never to land and to be kept aloft by their plumes, because native traders had removed the wings and feet from the specimens?
35. What is the subject of the "Zhou Bi Suan Jing", one of the oldest and most famous Chinese texts dating from the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC-256 BC), and added to into the Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 BC)?
36. During the 16th century Christian priests together with Spanish or Portuguese soldiers and adventurers destroyed almost all of the written "paper" records of what civilisation?
37. What was the capital of the Portuguese empire from 1808 to 1815?
38. Benedict Cumberbatch appears as the eponymous hero, created by Steve Ditko, in what 2016 superhero film?
39. Which British prime minister resigned as a result of the Suez Crisis?
40. What make of car is associated with Trevor Wilkinson?
41. What temperature is the equivalent of 0 degrees Kelvin?
42. The Cocos, Andaman and Nicobar Islands are an extended archipelago stretching north between the north-western tip of Indonesia and what other country?
43. The earliest work of Japanese history is attributed to Prince Shōtoku, who is said to have written the Tennōki and the Kokki in what century?
44. Who was the author of "Around The World In 80 Days" and "20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea" ?
45. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play US Marshalls investigating the disappearance of a psychiatric patient in the 1950s in which 2010 film directed by Martin Scorsese?
46. What was the height achieved at the 2012 Olympic Games, an Olympic record, by Reynaud Lavillennie to win the men's pole vault?
47. What do Bruce Banner, James Howlett and Selina Kyle have in common?
48. In 1907 American anthropologist and ethnographer Frances Densmore began fifty-plus years of studying and preserving what?
49. In the "Harry Potter" books, students board the train to Hogwarts at Platform 9+3⁄4. Which London railway station has erected a sign at a wall between tracks 9 and 10 to commemorate this?
50. When this trophy was first offered for award in the 1871-72 season of its sport, how many teams competed and what was the trophy?
51. A type of behaviour characterised by living together in mutigenerational colonies headed by one productive female, cooperative brood care, individuals with specialised non-transferable skills, is known as what?
52. Where is the National Monument known as McLear's Beacon, first established in 1844 and still used as a triangulation station by cartographers?
53. Which of these is not one of theatres that make up the British National Theatre complex on the South Bank, London?
54. What is the choking didymo, didymosphenia geminata, in waterways better known as?
55. Zurich SC Lions have been European Champions in which sport?
56. Which musical was based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce "The Merchant of Yonkers", which he revised and retitled "The Matchmaker" in 1955?
57. Which of these buildings is in Chicago?
58. Which ancient people with a confederacy of 5 cities (Ekron, Ashdod, Gath, Askalon and Gaza) came into conflict with Israel under Samson, Samuel and David?
59. What occasioned the death of Mumtaz Mahal in 1631, at the age of 37?
60. Who was the first Swiss citizen and the first surgeon to win a Nobel Prize?
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