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General Knowledge Quiz 29 (60 MCQs)

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1. In May 2010, what store was sold to Qatar Holdings by Mohammed Al Fayed for £1.5 billion?
2. What is the shortest book of the Old Testament?
3. In October 1981 France abolished what?
4. Newkirk is the surname of which of these entertainers?
5. Which of these Italian towns and cities is on the coast?
6. Who was the star of "8 Mile" (2002) a hip-hop drama film which was a fictionalized account of his growing up in Detroit and early career in rap?
7. Possession of what was made illegal in California, the first part of the USA to do so, on 6 October 1966?
8. The Little Red Book was required reading under whose rule?
9. Sid Baker, in his book "The Australian Language", suggests that a derogatory word used in Australasia to refer to a young person who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviour was a contraction of the name of which fictional race which appears in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift?
10. Where is the active Mayon volcano?
11. Which Welsh poet (e.g. "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog") wrote a play "Under Milk Wood" that was published posthumously in 1954?
12. The Moray is a type of what?
13. Dutch conductor and composer André Rieu, best known for creating an international revival in waltz music with his "Johann Strauss Orchestra" which began in 1987, is associated with which instrument?
14. Who, in 1970, became the first woman during the open era and the second woman ever to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same calendar year and became a Pentecostal minister in 1991?
15. Where or in what would a plumbata have been found?
16. What was the fate of "Blanche" in Poulenc's opera "Les Dialogues des Carmelites" ?
17. Which country won the most World Polo Championships between the inaugural tournament in 1987 and 2022?
18. Which team has controversial quarterback Michael Vick been with outside the National Football League in the USA?
19. What colour is the jacket that has been awarded to the winner of the US Masters Golf Tournament since 1949?
20. A collection of sculptures are described as what?
21. By the time Warcraft III was issued in 2003 the playable races were Orcs, Humans, Night Elves and which other?
22. Why was the FIFA World Cup, an international football competition contested by the men's national teams every four years since the first tournament in 1930, not held in 1942 and 1946?
23. The boundaries of four states of the USA, known as the Four Corners states, meet at one point, the only such geographic point in the USA. They are Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and which other?
24. In what is now Iran in 1951 to 1954, what led to the Shah fleeing the country, the Prime Minister trying to dissolve parliament, crude oil being imported from Kuwait, and a breakdown of diplomatic relations with Britain and the USA?
25. Where is the grave of Bing Crosby?
26. The standard of 435 vibrations per second for middle A that was laid down in 1859 is known as what?
27. What is the branch of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Asia Minor which contains many Greek islands?
28. Which of these bands did not contain siblings in the original lineup?
29. How is a mandolin usually played?
30. What is the electrical capacitance which 1 coulomb of electricity will charge to a capacity of 1 volt?
31. Which country, which is surrounded by South Africa, gained its independence from Britain in 1966?
32. The international standard of keeping to the right in marine or other encounters on water was established by what country?
33. Which is the largest of the salt lakes of Salt Lake City?
34. In December 2005, Amelle Berrabah became a member of which group?
35. What is a demotic script?
36. Which of these is a famous phrase from the film "Casablanca" ?
37. What is bouillabaisse?
38. What was a quintain used for?
39. Where are the Ottawa Islands?
40. Which of these is a type of antelope?
41. On the buttons of a VCR or DVD player, what does the sign in the shape of a double right pointing arrow mean?
42. The RMS "Lancastria" was the subject of the worst single loss of life in British maritime history and the bloodiest single engagement for UK forces in World War II; she was sunk by German bombers on 17 June 1940 when taking part in an operation to evacuate 150, 000 troops from where?
43. Which of these is the largest genus in the wood-sorrel family which occurs throughout most of the world, except for the polar areas?
44. Which of these is a dance made popular internationally in the 1950s where people pass under a bar while leaning backwards?
45. Where is the World Heritage city, once a capital in Nabataea and now a major archaeological site for Roman, Byzantine and Muslim ruins with further ancient Nabataean and Roman monuments, Christian churches, mosques and Madrasas?
46. English journalist, playwright and reform advocate, Henry Mayhew, and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells started what satirical magazine in 1841?
47. What, according to John Lennon, "is just what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans" ?
48. José Santos Zelaya, William Walker, Adolfo Díaz, Emiliano Chamorro, Juan Bautista Sacasa, Anastasio Somoza García, Luis Somoza, Violeta Chamorro, Enrique Bolaños and Daniel Ortega are associated with the politics of which country?
49. In 1938, after receiving the Nobel Prize, which physicist emigrated to the USA, protesting the oppressive regime of his homeland?
50. The First Lady of which US president was known as Pat, though her first name was Thelma?
51. The Tour de France is traditionally held in what month of the year?
52. The Giant's Causeway is a rock formation found where?
53. The Tarantella, from Southern Italy, is a type of what?
54. Approximately when did the earliest known major civilisation in the Middle Americas flourish?
55. In 2016 Peter Prevc from Slovenia is both the World Cup holder and the individual World Champion in what sport?
56. Where is a levator palpebrae superioris muscle in the body?
57. Which infectious disease is characterised by ulceration and inflammation of the bowel with generalised toxaemia and "wasting", usually caused via infection of food contaminated by flies?
58. The film 1953 Calamity Jane produced which hit for Doris Day that reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1954?
59. Which of these is the name of 13 books written in Alexandria around 300 BC, a collection of definitions, axioms, theorems, constructions and proofs was used as the basic text on geometry throughout the Western world for about 2, 000 years?
60. The pericardium is part of which organ?
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