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General Knowledge Quiz 281 (60 MCQs)

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1. On 10 January 1902 Ellen Dougherty became the first registered what in the world?
2. Where in the human body is the sacroiliac joint?
3. Which bank robber, whose exploits were sensationalized across the USA, was shot dead by police in an ambush outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago in 1934?
4. Who or what were the first living creatures sent up to test the hot air balloon invented and first flown (unmanned) by the Montgolfier brothers in France earlier in 1783?
5. What is the dividend of 22 divided by 7?
6. What creature is on the flag of Bhutan?
7. Who was the first person (and only person, except for "Sergeant Pepper") other than The Beatles themselves, to have their image on the front cover of a Beatles LP?
8. The first final for what was held at Kennington Oval on 16 March1872.
9. Since 1980, what has been the official country residence of the British Foreign Secretary?
10. Someone is unsuccessfully trying to look well-dressed is said to be "dressed up like a" what?
11. Who created the English schoolboy hero "Jennings" ?
12. Which character in the comic strip "Peanuts" plays the piano?
13. J. E. Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist and textile engineer, discovered the process to make what?
14. The majority of active volcanoes in Africa are in which country?
15. Which of these is a word for a romantic meeting?
16. As a first step to manufacturing steel, iron is extracted from ore by removing oxygen and combining it with what element?
17. Who changed his name to Engelbert Humperdinck in 1965 and in 1967 had a top ten hit on both sides of the Atlantic with "Release Me" ?
18. Which harbour, a US naval base, was attacked by Japanese aeroplanes on 7 December 1941?
19. One couple won the World Figure Skating Championships for Ice Dancing for four successive years 1981-1984. Who were they?
20. What does "VCR" stand for?
21. Which of these is a French company founded in 1948 by Émile Camuset that produces sports equipment such as shoes, shorts, and T-shirts?
22. In the USA there is a national holiday annually on the third Monday in January, in honour of whom?
23. Miso soup originated in which country?
24. What was the name of the last Ptolemaic Pharaoh of Egypt?
25. What characterises a Garibaldi biscuit?
26. What is a plisson, a speciality of Poitou in France?
27. What is the name for the infection of living tissues such as skin, lung or bowel by bacteria?
28. Who was made an honorary citizen of Haslach, Austria, in 1938, an honour withdrawn in 2004?
29. Which film was notable for the legal battle that ensued when first Madonna then Kim Basinger backed out of the title role, and for winning a "Worst Director" award for David Lynch at the Golden Raspberry Awards?
30. Which of these is the name of a belt worn by police and military personnel?
31. When was the legislation passed in France which specifically barred Latin and established clearly written French as the only language to be used in legal and official documents?
32. Which one of these co-wrote with David Bowie, to a guitar riff written by Carlos Alomar, the song "Fame", which was released by Bowie in 1975 on his "Young Americans" album?
33. Which of these is a traditional English word for someone who makes shoes?
34. The group of 48 of the United States that are between Canada and Mexico is referred to as the continental or ..... what ..... United States?
35. Where is the US Bullion Depository, a fortified building used to store US official gold reserves, and a US Army post that holds the US Army Armor Center and the US Army Armor School?
36. Producer Alex Korda engaged Anton Karas to score which entire film, after it had been edited together, using only one instrument?
37. On an 11 stringed lute, ten strings are tuned in pairs, and the highest single string is called what?
38. What is another name for ultra-violet light?
39. What is the French equivalent of the word "mister" ?
40. Which of these is a type of dog?
41. Who was separated from her husband in June 2009 to film "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" in Australia?
42. Why did the International Olympics Committee ban Russian athletes from competing under the Russian flag at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil?
43. What was Julia Gillard's profession?
44. What is a mango?
45. In 2014 at the age of 93 Phyllis Latour Doyle, "Pippa", received the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur, (the Legion of Honour, knight class) for activities in occupied France in World War II; where was she born, and where did she grow up?
46. Which of these features in "My Fair Lady" ?
47. James Esdaile, John Elliotson, Jean-Martin Charcot, Hippolyte Bernheim, Pierre Janet, Émile Coué, Morton Prince, Clark L. Hull, Andrew Salter, Theodore R. Sarbin, Ernest Hilgard, Martin Theodore Orne, and Nicholas Spanos are associated with what?
48. What Jewish celebration commemorates an event concerning children and lamb's blood?
49. How many countries does the approximately 1, 750 km (1, 087 mi) long River Limpopo flow through or beside?
50. What was Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose, doing when she sank in 1545?
51. Who was President of France for over 10 years from 1958?
52. Which of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments is played on grass courts?
53. Which of these would you expect to receive in a Chinese restaurant?
54. What caused the end of the Triple Alliance treaty signed in 1882 between Germany, Austria and Italy against the power of Russia and France?
55. The endocrine glands secrete their products directly into what rather than through a duct?
56. Where do the Brazil and Malvinas ocean currents meet?
57. Begun in 1897 and inspired by the success of the first modern-day marathon at the 1896 Olympics, what is the world's oldest annual marathon?
58. Which of these is another word for graphite?
59. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 concerned what?
60. Which of these characters is not a member of the Simpson family in the TV series "The Simpsons" ?
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