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General Knowledge Quiz 283 (60 MCQs)

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1. In the TV series "Boston Legal", who played the character of Denny Crane?
2. Which chemist and physicist established the basis for the magnetic field concept, discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, laws of electrolysis, and benzene, invented devices that are the basis of electric motor technology, and popularised words such as anode, cathode, electrode, and ion?
3. In 1945, Percy LeBaron Spencer invented which of these?
4. Which German author won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature?
5. Which Olympic Games was the first to be sponsored, by Coca-Cola?
6. The film "Vera Drake" (2004) by Mike Leigh has as a central focus which field of activity in 1950s Britain?
7. Two main mechanisms which create the trade winds, between 30$^\circ$N and 30$^\circ$S latitude, are the differences in solar heat and what?
8. Skin is lead singer of what British hard rock/metal band?
9. Who was the British general who took Charleston, South Carolina, 1779 during the American War of Independence?
10. Which European city is built at the mouth of the river Tagus?
11. Who won the Men's Singles title at Wimbledon 2017, the eighth time he has held the title?
12. Roses, bells and acorns are found in what game or sport?
13. Thomas Telford is associated with which field?
14. What is the title of the BBC sitcom starring Mathew Horne and Joanna Page, written by and co-starring Ruth Jones and James Corden?
15. Greeks wanting to encipher a text used the scytale to perform what?
16. A UN tribunal ruling under the auspices of the UN Convention on the Laws of the Sea was asked for in 2013 by the Philippines on claims by what other country?
17. Which is described as a traditional treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, chronic anterior uveitis, conjunctivitis, skin cancer, small pox, chicken pox, wound healing, urinary tract infections, and liver ailments?
18. A washboard scraped with a thimble features as an instrument in what kind of music?
19. Who invented the biro pen?
20. Which of these distinguishes a fungus from a plant?
21. Which of these is a genus of armoured dinosaur with distinctive tail spikes and plates from the Late Jurassic period, once found in western North America and Europe?
22. What is a panemone?
23. For the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, USA, why was there only one new venue in the 15 used?
24. He was a 19th century European novelist also acclaimed as the greatest short story writer of his country. Who was he?
25. Which of these is a variety of cabbage introduced into England in the 16th century?
26. What are the mathematical odds of the perfect deal in a bridge hand (i.e. 13 cards all of one suit)
27. Who, in his autobiography "Open:An Autobiography" published in November 2009, admitted to using and testing positive for methamphetamine in 1997?
28. What is a fillip?
29. Which of these historical figures is most associated with the year 1865?
30. In 1934, English inventor and businessman Percy Shaw patented and then set up a company to manufacture what invention?
31. Where, in about 142 CE, did the Romans build the Antonine Wall?
32. Which of these would be found in a nide?
33. What do whale sharks, four-eyed fish, and New Zealand red rock cod share in common?
34. Where is the world's lowest area of land, i.e. the land which lies at the deepest "elevation" below sea level?
35. Where are the Endorois people indigenous?
36. What kind of animal is the endangered Turkmenian kulan?
37. Which of these people had victories in battle at Marston Moor, Naseby, Preston, Dunbar and Worcester?
38. Many of the alkaline and saline lakes in and around the complex of rift valleys known collectively as the Great Rift Valley running down eastern Africa, are notable for what?
39. What does the Mohs scale measure?
40. The two main branches of the River Nile are known as what?
41. Burkina Faso and which other country have declared the Sourou Valley as a Transboundary Ramsar Site?
42. Someone who is frightened of blood is suffering from what?
43. Most protozoa, or single-celled organisms, are harmless to humans but a few cause diseases; which of these is one?
44. According to Forbes as at June 2014, which was the second richest football club in the world?
45. Which screen actor, well-known for roles in fiction work, switched genres in 2016 to appear in a world-wide famous television series celebrating cars and driving?
46. At the 1912 Olympic Games Serbia competed as an independent nation, but did not do so again until when?
47. Which cartoon character was born at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm?
48. Which of these is a home video game console launched in 2006 by Nintendo that has a wireless controller for use as a handheld pointing device, and detects movement in three dimensions?
49. What takes place every evening at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium?
50. The story of which 1944 film starring Elizabeth Taylor involved a horse called "The Pie" ?
51. Which of these is an anthology film released in 1988, a collection of short films about Michael Jackson several of which are long-form music videos from his "Bad" album?
52. The tiny Socotra archipelago, inhabited since the early stone age and once an integral part of trade networks in the area, lies where?
53. Which of these musicals is set during World War II?
54. The Polisario Front disputes which country for control of the Western Sahara?
55. What is the term used for a driver on Memorial Day weekend attempting to race in the Indianapolis 500 during the day and the Coca-Cola 600 during the night?
56. The "Pangboche Hand" is used as proof of the existence of what?
57. From which of these can the Southern Lights be seen?
58. Where is KwaZulu-Natal?
59. "The Gorbals" is an area in which city?
60. On 8 April 1933, the state government of Western Australia held a referendum on which subject, in which 68% of the 237, 198 voters voted in favour?
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