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General Knowledge Quiz 299 (60 MCQs)

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1. When Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang lost the civil war in China to Mao Zedong where did they escape to in 1949?
2. Which of these is a species of antelope?
3. The books "The Lion in the Meadow", "The Witch in the Cherry Tree", "The Haunting", "The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate", The Changeover", "The Tin Can Band and other poems", and "The Tale of a Tail" were written by whom?
4. Which of these lies off the coast of Vietnam?
5. Whose visit to Vietnam in November 2000 was the first by a U.S. President since the end of the Vietnam War?
6. Which play was described by its author as a comedy with elements of farce but was directed for its debut at the Moscow Art Theatre on 17 January 1904 as a tragedy?
7. John Lennon's hand-written lyrics for which song sold for US$ 1.2 million at Sotheby's in June 2010?
8. Gamma-coniceine and coniine are the two principles which contribute most to the poisonous effect of what plant?
9. Which of these is a South Korean island that was shelled by North Korean artillery on 23 November 2010?
10. Dartboards were made from solid wood, most often elm. What is said to be the material of which the best quality modern dartboards are made?
11. What term, in musical rhythm, refers to playing three beats in the time of two?
12. What other book is the author of "A Child's Garden of Verses" (1885), initially published under the title of "Penny Whistles", particularly well-known for?
13. In the course of what did the captain of the Australian cricket team Michael Clarke resign in 2015?
14. At the 1980 Olympics at Moscow, which Cuban was the first to win three Olympic gold medals in Heavyweight boxing?
15. Who wrote the blank verse drama "Boris Godunov", later the basis for an opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky?
16. Which of these was the 1958 Nobel Prize laureate, a Russian poet, novelist and translator of Goethe and Shakespeare, most celebrated in Russia as a poet?
17. In 1998 the Iroquois nation sent its first team to the world championships of which sport?
18. Which of these words is not part of the slogan that arose during the French revolution?
19. Which of these drinks is made from cherries?
20. What does the title journeyman mean?
21. In the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, who has a technicolour dreamcoat?
22. Where did Gustav Fabergé from the Baltics establish the jewellery firm in 1842 which later, under his son, created the Fabergé eggs?
23. Which of these hibernates during the cold months?
24. Which of these is an early wind instrument, dating from the Mediaeval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, that takes the form of a tube, typically about 60 cm long, made of ivory or wood, with woodwind-style fingerholes?
25. In classical Rome the use of "Dis" referred to what?
26. In 1966, Germany and England played in the World Cup final for which sport?
27. Which of these is German wine?
28. What do members of the Gideon Society leave in hotel bedrooms?
29. What is on the northern border of South Dakota?
30. Which of the countries on the South American continent has the most extreme ratio of length north-south to breadth east-west?
31. Matt Damon played which role in a trilogy of films about an amnesiac who also suffers from PTSD who is attempting to discover his true identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the CIA to track him down and arrest or kill him?
32. What colour is a velella's upper structure?
33. Which English King was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine?
34. When was the majority of the present Great Wall of China constructed?
35. Who is the present wife of golfer Greg Norman?
36. In Canada, although women had a limited right by 1884 to vote in governmental elections they did not have full voting rights until when?
37. In the 1988 Winter Olympics, freestyle skiing, disabled alpine and Nordic skiing, and freestyle short track speed skating were competed as demonstration sports. What was the fourth demonstration sport at the Games?
38. Which flowers are "in the hospital", according to a 1993 hit by the Manic Street Preachers?
39. On what is the length of a nautical mile based?
40. Which of these are "root vegetables" ?
41. What organisation was initially behind the first Geneva Convention signed in 1864?
42. Toxicology is the study of the effects of what?
43. Cambodia, which over the course of 1841 to 1953 was under the joint suzerainty of Thailand and Vietnam then was a monarchy under the protection of France which included an occupation by Japan, was steered to independence in 1953 by whom?
44. What does the line on a map called an isobar show?
45. Who was the fourth (and the first female) Prime Minister of the State of Israel, who was described as the "Iron Lady" (before Margaret Thatcher), "the best man in the government" and the "strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people" ?
46. Which blood vessel supplies blood to the brain?
47. What are some of the main tools of synthetic geometry?
48. What is the name for monocotyledonous, usually herbaceous plants with narrow leaves growing from the base, that include cereals, bamboo, turf, sedges and rushes?
49. The character who declares "Sam I am" features in which children's book?
50. What is the name for the movement of water across a partially permeable membrane from an area of high water potential (low solute concentration) to an area of low water potential (high solute concentration)?
51. What was the most immediate trigger for the ending of the French Fourth Republic in 1958?
52. What does the Greek word "Eureka" mean?
53. In 2011 in response to prolonged allegations by Republican Donald Trump that President Barack Obama was not qualified to be president because he was not American, Obama published what?
54. Anonymous street artist Banksy opened a hotel in March 2017 in Palestine next to the Israeli wall which runs along much of the Israeli-declared border in the West Bank; what was one of its characteristics?
55. What is the word for bending at least one knee to the ground, a gesture of deep respect for a superior that was introduced in 328 BC by Alexander the Great into his court, a practice then already followed in Persia?
56. Which of these is not a dance?
57. Which of these deserts is in Africa?
58. Sandcrack is a damage in an animal's what?
59. Which is a traditional topping for lasagne?
60. Who called the first of what became three general elections in the UK between 2015 and 2019?
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