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General Knowledge Quiz 3 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is a word for the living content of a cell that is surrounded by a plasma membrane?
2. In French cuisine, what is the name for a baked dish originating in Germany that is based on a custard made from eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust, which usually is blind baked before the other ingredients are added for a secondary baking period?
3. Who were Great Uncle Bulgaria, Tobermory, Orinoco, Bungo, Tomsk, Wellington and Madame Cholet?
4. The Safari Rally, a round of the World Rally Championship from 1973 to 2002 held in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, was first run as a commemorative event, in what year?
5. Which 20th century painter claimed to have invented a new technique called "action painting" and was called by the contemporary press "Jack The Dripper" ?
6. In what connection is the term "bulb of percussion" used?
7. Who appeared on the first postage stamp?
8. A movement whose followers were known derisively as Lollards centred on the views of which priest, philosopher and theologian and his colleagues?
9. Which resort shares both the summit of Mont Blanc and the title of highest commune in France with Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?
10. The Constitution of Cádiz, the first Constitution of Spain, was ratified in 1812 under whose authority?
11. When was the period of English history known as "The Anarchy" or "The Nineteen-Year Winter" ?
12. What is the contraction of the German "Geheime Staatspolizei" used in English?
13. What nationality was the first singles winner of the US Open (at that time, the United States National Championships) for tennis?
14. What estate, presented to the British nation in 1917, is the official residence of the Prime Minister?
15. What is the capital of the archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean called The Falkland Islands?
16. What ocean borders the US state of California?
17. Where, in 2011 and since, is a major gathering place in Egypt for expressing protest?
18. In 2018 Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua OBE from the UK holds multiple world championships in which sport?
19. The foundations for which science were laid by Adam Smith in 1776 and followed up by people such as John Stuart Mill and David Ricardo?
20. British artists William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, and Thomas Gainsborough were working in what century?
21. A modified version of which type of weapon was designed by US frontiersman Jim Bowie?
22. The body of writings contained in the Ayurveda-life science, or knowledge-dealing in lifestyle and therapy interventions to gain human health, is understood to have originated in India how long ago?
23. What event led to a US grand jury indicting E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy for conspiracy, burglary and violation of federal wiretapping laws?
24. A cubit, an ancient unit of measurement, was derived from what?
25. During World War II, most of the collection of the National Gallery of British Art was put into storage. How was protection given to a very large painting by Stanley Spencer?
26. Literally, what old French word translates approximately as "white food" ?
27. The excavation of what city, destroyed in 79AD, was begun in 1748?
28. When the Olympic flame is about to be taken to the venue for the next Olympic Games, it is lit in which city?
29. What are "Libiamo ne' lieti calici", "O soave fanciulla" and "Parle-moi de ma mère" ?
30. What is toasted bread, rubbed with garlic, drizzled with olive oil, seasoned with salt and pepper and served warm, called?
31. Celebrated merchant Marco Polo 1254-1324, adventurer Francisco Pizzaro c.1475-1541, African-American activist Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumtree) c.1797-1883, and White Sox player Joe Jackson 1887-1951 shared what?
32. How many black keys are there on a standard modern piano?
33. What countries apart from Thailand surround the Gulf of Thailand?
34. Which of these is not one of the islands that makes up Malta?
35. Why was Captain William Kidd hanged in 1701?
36. In 1952, Jonas Salk invented a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infection by which disease?
37. How many different people were Prime Minister of Canada in the first 100 years after the first was appointed in 1867?
38. What can describe a phlegmatic person?
39. Where are the Huron Falls?
40. The second studio album of which band or artist was certified triple platinum by the RIAA in 2003, 7 years after it was released?
41. In 1990, who became the first son and father to play on the same Major League Baseball team at the same time (the Seattle Mariners), and the only father and son pair to hit back to back home runs?
42. According to the New International Version of the Christian Bible, "the love of money is a root of all kinds of ..... " what?
43. Which landlocked country in Southeast Asia is bordered by Burma, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand?
44. What was the name of the US policy to transport suspect terrorists to other countries for interrogation?
45. The 1997 film, "The Castle", portrays a household reacting to a developer's threat to acquire their property compulsorily in order to extend an airport. Where is it set?
46. With what activity is Dame Clara Butt associated?
47. What is the dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada that was completed in 1935?
48. Where was the venue for the Commonwealth Games in 2010?
49. The trilogy of plays known collectively as "Passion Play" (2005-2013) was written by whom?
50. What was the set of industry censorship guidelines which governed the production of the vast majority of US motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968?
51. Where are the Enets and Nenets (or Samoyed) nomadic peoples based?
52. Where would you find a major domo?
53. Where was Christopher Columbus born?
54. The fictional town of Denton in the Midlands was the setting for which British TV series?
55. What country, after having governed it for 155 years, transferred its sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997?
56. In the third century CE, politician, geographer, writer, and cartographer Pei Xiu was the first in China recorded as describing what in full?
57. Which American lexicographer also published a popular and influential speller, grammar book and reader for elementary age students?
58. Maynard James Keenan, frontman of the alt-rock group Tool, is also an accomplished what?
59. Which of these describes a boisterous, knockabout style of humour?
60. A growth rate stated as 1 + half + a third + a quarter + ..... is what kind of growth?
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