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General Knowledge Quiz 295 (60 MCQs)

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1. The 2013 UK television series "Ambassadors" follows the lives of the British embassy employees in which fictional nation?
2. Which modern country was created when Prithvi Narayan united the 3 kingdoms of Kathmandu, Patan, and Bhaktapur in 1768?
3. Which of these characters appears in the game "Cluedo" ?
4. What was the maiden name of Billie Jean King before she married Lawrence King in Long Beach, California on 17 September 1965?
5. What is the chief river of Uganda?
6. After a scoring controversy at an Olympic Games, the Hungarian and Italian fencing teams satisfied honour with a real live duel, with sabres. In what year was this?
7. In 2003, what character was voted by the American Film Institute to be the greatest hero in American film?
8. What was the aim of the 1984 Mexico Declaration by the National Olympic Committees?
9. Which of these is British slang for someone from the Tyneside or Newcastle area?
10. Every year since 1947 which two countries have commemorated the support given by one of them to the other during Word War II, by the gift of a Christmas tree?
11. Which play, and then novel, explores, through the 164-year-history of one family, a social system much criticised since the 19th century?
12. What word was coined in the 20th century for persistent mishearing and/or misunderstanding of a commonly known group of words?
13. Where would you find the machair?
14. Since 1951, what is the maximum number of full consecutive terms to be filled by one US president?
15. Which of these can be a synonym for the Spanish American or southwestern US term "llano" ?
16. Tennis player Lleyton Hewitt married which actress?
17. The systems known as Gonin Gumi, in the Edo period in Japan, and Frankpledge, in mediaeval England, shared what?
18. Artist David Hockney was born in what country?
19. In 1947, Chuck Yeager was the first to do what in an aeroplane?
20. How is present "sea level", the base level for measuring elevation and depth, determined?
21. What author introduced the character of Oskar Matzerath with a piercing shriek?
22. Ade Adepitan, who reports and presents for the BBC, was part of a team which was successful in 2005 how?
23. Which author disappeared on a walk along the River Ouse near Monk's House, Rodmell, Sussex, England, in March 1941, leaving letters for her husband Leonard and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell?
24. Where are the ancient hill fortifications called Masada?
25. In 1960, who co-founded Motor Racing Developments Ltd., a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team, with designer Ron Tauranac?
26. Which epic poem follows a group of fighters and their adventures, individually and together, on a road trip towards home, together with its effect on the family of the leader?
27. Who became president of Afghanistan in December 2004?
28. In 2012 and again in 2015 the term Grexit became current. What country does it refer to?
29. What is a High German language of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world, and conventionally written in the Hebrew alphabet?
30. What rock is where the "Pilgrim Fathers" are said to have landed in North America in 1620?
31. The Book of Mormon, central book of the Mormon faith developed in the 1820s, was published in Palmyra, New York, on what date?
32. What sport is associated with Vladimir Putin, the second President of the Russian Federation?
33. Who was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of India when it was created in 1947?
34. What is the next name in this series:Ross Kemp, Ben Stiller, Kate Winslet, Samuel L. Jackson, Les Dennis ..... ?
35. In 2004, Barbie dumped Ken for an Australian. What was his name?
36. A toxophilite does what?
37. The "Authorised Version" of the Bible published in 1611 is also known as what?
38. The FA cup is contested in Britain for what sport?
39. What nationality is the rapper who released his fifth studio album in 2018, which produced three number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100: "God's Plan", "Nice for What" and "In My Feelings" ?
40. How many sports were competed at the first Winter Olympics, then known as the Olympic Winter Games?
41. Charles Lindberg's first transatlantic flight was between which two cities?
42. Where are the headquarters of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation?
43. Which river forms the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia?
44. Who identified "The Four Freedoms" (freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear) in a message to the US Congress?
45. Which international treaties of 1899 and 1907 cover the use of weapons in war?
46. What was the Wilhelm Gustloff?
47. Who wrote the book "What Pet Should I Get?" ?
48. The seed of which of these nuts is green when mature?
49. What was the Halifax gibbet, used from at least the 13th to the 17th century in the town of Halifax in Yorkshire, England?
50. In which of these films did Clint Eastwood not play a character called Inspector "Dirty Harry" Callahan?
51. What caused the cancellation or postponement of multiple sporting events in 2020?
52. Which American author wrote "The Call Of The Wild", "White Fang", "The Sea Wolf" and "The Game" ?
53. In what field is Dr Anatoly Karpov best known internationally?
54. What was the favourite horse of Alexander the Great?
55. Which of these is a city on the Bosphorus that is considered to be part of both Asia and Europe?
56. What is the name of the area immediately surrounding a golf hole?
57. In music, what is the name given to 1/16th of the whole note or semibreve?
58. The borders of which European country that were set under the reign of Afonso III (1248 to 1279) are the same today?
59. Leighton Rees was the first world professional champion in what sport, in 1978?
60. In the original series which ran for over 15 years, from September 1998 to February 2014, how many contestants in the UK version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" won £1, 000, 000?
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