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General Knowledge Quiz 280 (60 MCQs)

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1. When did the Hasanid Sharifs rule in western Asia?
2. Where is Saint Kitts and Nevis?
3. The genus of plants called nopal or opuntia, native to the Americas and found in arid, semiarid, and drought-prone areas, is a source of what kind of food?
4. Considered by Eugene Merle Shoemaker to be the first definitive proof of an extraterrestrial impact on the Earth's surface, was which meteorite impact crater?
5. What is the name of 100 novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio, a medieval allegorical work known for its bawdy tales of love from the erotic to the tragic, which were probably written in the 1350s?
6. What needlework technique incorporating features of embroidery, cutwork and needle lace, popular in England in the 19th century, is characterised by patterns composed of small holes or eyelets bound with overcast or buttonhole stitches?
7. Who rests in the Hotel des Invalides, Paris?
8. After the World Cup in 1962, the government of Brazil declared which player an "official national treasure" to prevent him from being transferred out of the country when wealthy European clubs tried to sign him?
9. In golf, what is the term for "three strokes under par" ?
10. Two of its cones are considered extinct while the third, Kibo, is only dormant and sports gas fumeroles. Which mountain is it?
11. If someone has a BA, they are a Bachelor of what?
12. What were the names of Elvis Presley's parents?
13. With what process are cacao seeds treated initially to turn them brown?
14. Where was the penal colony which features in a 1969 semi-autobiography by an ex-criminal and convict imprisoned there from 1933 until he finally escaped in the 1940s?
15. Why do American Airlines Flights 11 and 77 and United Airlines Flights 93 and 175 feature in the history of the USA?
16. Which island group between the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean was discovered in 1521 by Magellan, was taken by Spain, ceded to the USA in 1898 and became an independent republic in 1946?
17. Bergers White Ball, Giant Prague and Diamant are cultivars of what food plant?
18. Which of these 1955 films is a bedroom farce set in Sweden in the early 1900s, directed by Ingmar Bergman?
19. What number is the factorial of 4?
20. The Swedish soldier, humanitarian and diplomat Greve Folke Bernadotte is particularly remembered for what during the course of World War II?
21. What actress, born in Muscat, Oman, began acting on Australian television on "Paradise Beach" and "Home and Away" and is known for her roles in "Wedding Crashers", "Confessions of a Shopaholic", "Rango" and "The Great Gatsby" ?
22. Which colour in the visible spectrum has the longest wavelength?
23. Which of these is used in Buddhism?
24. What language is the primary source of the word "parallel" ?
25. Which 87 sq km (34 sq mi) island in the Caribbean Sea was divided between France and the Netherlands in 1648?
26. What species of tree of the genus Prunus, native to the Middle East, produces a seed in a corrugated shell which is botanically not a nut, but a drupe?
27. Who wrote "J'accuse", an open letter to Félix Fauré, President of France, accusing the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus (a French officer sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage) that was published on 13 January 1898, in the newspaper "L'Aurore" ?
28. The Vatican erected a statue inside the Vatican's walls of which person who was convicted by the Catholic Church of heresy in 1633 and sentenced to house arrest for life?
29. What was the most famous work of writer L. Frank Baum, who wrote from 1897 to 1912?
30. Which is the largest of Britain's Channel Islands?
31. What is a name for the building where monks live and work?
32. What major event was expected for the island of St Helena in 2015/2016?
33. Indigenous languages spoken in French Guiana include Wayampi, Emerillon and ..... ?
34. What are or were the Selma to Montgomery Marches?
35. What is Stephen Hawking's disease?
36. Where is a proscenium arch usually found?
37. What is an example of a membranophone?
38. What is the meaning of the German word "Gesundheit", said after a sneeze?
39. Under English law, what was the earliest date that a woman could obtain a divorce with the sole ground of adultery?
40. Which of these was the name of a space shuttle?
41. Trinity College, London, issues which diplomas?
42. What game is played on a pitch up to 145 metres long and 90 metres wide with goalposts similar to a rugby union with a lower crossbar and a net similar to soccer, with scoring by putting the ball over the bar (for 1 point) or into the net (for 3)?
43. In the 5th century BC, Pericles was a statesman from where?
44. Where is the country of Aruba?
45. If a device is described as bluetooth capable what would it be expected to have?
46. The tour, and the test series, by the India cricket team in Pakistan in 1984 was halted abruptly before the third test. What was the reason?
47. Which poet married Annabel Millbanke in 1815, was separated in 1816, was the subject of scandal about his relationship with his half sister Augusta, and died of fever at Missolonghi in 1824 after trying help Greek insurgents fight against the Turks?
48. Which of these originated in Cuba?
49. The years 1563, 1593, 1603, 1625, 1636 and 1665 marked waves of what in and around London in England?
50. Which long-standing US TV series was ended in 1991, and then revived from 2012 to 2014 still starring actors from the original series, including Ken Kercheval, Steve Kanaly and Charlene Tilton?
51. John Boyd Dunlop was associated with the development of what item?
52. Which instrument, with a range of around 3-4 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to C 2 octaves below middle C, and the others tuned in fifths?
53. Who won Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Awards in 2006 and 2008 for abridged audiobook versions of his books "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope" ?
54. When Michael Jackson's scalp was burned in January 1984 during the filming of a commercial, just before he released the final single from his album "Thriller", what was the commercial designed to advertise?
55. Which of these is a type of gull?
56. What religious organisation was founded in England by William Booth in 1877?
57. What was a feature of the gold medals awarded for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics?
58. What is the name of the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, including its gravitational field, in a three-dimensional time-varying space?
59. The San Andreas fault extends through California in three segments, from Salton Lake in the south to where in the north?
60. What is pedal oedema?
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