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General Knowledge Quiz 28 (60 MCQs)

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1. As listed by World Athletics, the official world marathon record set in 1908 (at 24 mile distance) was 2:55:18; in 2023 (at 26.219 miles (42.195 km)) it is what?
2. Which golfer was named as Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year in 1996?
3. The discovery of what possible Earth-like planet with the greatest potential for harbouring life found at that time, was announced in late September 2010?
4. Its capital city is Chișinău, and it is surrounded by the Ukraine and Romania; which country is it?
5. Goidelic is one type of the Celtic language. What is the other?
6. On 25 June 1991, Slovenia and Croatia became the first republics to declare independence from which country?
7. Which Italian writer, university professor, medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, and political and social commentator includes among his novels "The Prague Cemetery" and "Numero Zero" ?
8. Who painted the famous painting known as "The Blue Boy" ?
9. In 2008, who was nicknamed "The King of Clay" ?
10. In the UK, the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 and three other documents listed here are considered to be some of the basic documents of the uncodified British constitution. Which is NOT one of them?
11. Which of these is an alloy?
12. Which US TV show's theme song, by Judy Hart Angelo & Gary Portnoy, performed by Portnoy, contained the line "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" ?
13. What is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases?
14. Why was Los Angeles selected as the host of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games by the IOC session at Athens, Greece, without a vote?
15. Cayenne, after which the spicy condiment is named, is a city in which country?
16. In what would a finesse be used?
17. What is a nematode?
18. Who wrote the song "I Get a Kick Out of You" ?
19. What does the company Faber and Faber Ltd do?
20. The Dalton Minimum (roughly 1790-1830) and the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715) are associated with periods of cooler temperatures around the world, and refer to what?
21. Which of these is a board game?
22. Which of these famous scientists could escape the schoolyard nicknames of Copperknickers, The Great Newt, or The Eddystone Lighthouse?
23. What genus of grass is also known as kaffir corn, dhurra, Guinea corn and Indian millet?
24. Which of these parts of a horse's harness is the rear-most?
25. What are Halley's, Hale-Bopp, Kohoutek, West, Hyakutake and McNaught?
26. What was the first nation to recognise the USA as an independent nation?
27. What fruit gets its name from its similarity to the locally native word for testicle?
28. In the UK TV series "Coronation Street", which of these were the last to be married?
29. What game requires 6 hoops and 2 posts set up on a ground around 35 yards by 28 yards?
30. What is the name for someone who engages in the scientific study of fermentation?
31. Which of these establishments is based in Langley, Virginia?
32. Duck or goose feathers, from the left wing only, are used in what?
33. What is the main ingredient, apart from icing sugar, in Royal icing?
34. Where is Komodo National Park?
35. An oenophile is fond of what?
36. Who won a Nobel prize in 1918 "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta", established a major Law of Radiation and sparked the development of Quantum Theory from 1900?
37. The 2011-12 and 2015-16 World Champion in men's individual archery, Kim Woo-Jin, represents what nation?
38. Of the 29 letters in the Turkish alphabet, how many are vowels?
39. Two compositions of which American jazz pianist, organist, composer, violinist, singer, and comedic entertainer from the first half of the 20th century, were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984 and 1999?
40. What is the collective name for eight elite universities in the North Eastern USA?
41. When was the Koinon of the Zagorisians an independent system?
42. For which of these is white wine the basis?
43. Los Angeles, USA, was selected as the venue for an Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984, both times under what conditions?
44. Which satirical US TV police sitcom (1986-88), although short-lived, made the ironic and baseless phrase "Trust me, I know what I'm doing" popular?
45. A popular vote in Switzerland in November 2009 approved banning the building of what in the country?
46. What entertainment venue in New York City's Rockefeller Center, nicknamed "the Showplace of the Nation", opened to the public in December 1932?
47. Who, with his crew, was credited as being the first person to circumnavigate the continents of North and South America, including a transit of the Northwest Passage?
48. Where does the word donnybrook, synonymous with a riot, come from?
49. In ballet, which of these terms means a controlled turn on one leg, starting with one or both legs in plié and rising onto demi-pointe or pointe?
50. Which of these is a German astronomer who assigned most of the brighter stars their first systematic names in 1603 in his star atlas "Uranometria" ?
51. Where is the lowest point in Africa?
52. To prevaricate is to what?
53. Where and when did Martina Navratilova became the oldest winner of a tennis grand slam titled aged 46?
54. What is celebrated world wide on 7 April each year?
55. By what name was Shane Fenton better known as a performer in the 1970s and 1980s?
56. Which two land masses does Palk Strait separate?
57. By what name is James Osterberg popularly known?
58. Among plants and inanimate objects, what is a cob?
59. Which of these is word for a writer's assistant?
60. Which mountain range would you come across first if you went due East from San Jose, California?
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