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General Knowledge Quiz 30 (60 MCQs)

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1. The Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" was stereo-typical of milliners making felt hats, who used what chemical to separate the fur from the pelt and matt it together?
2. Who wrote the 16th century play "Tamburlaine the Great", one of the first English plays in blank verse?
3. Where is the Satsuma peninsula?
4. Which American photographer who lived from 1923 to 1971 was noted for her portraits of people such as transvestites, dwarfs, giants and prostitutes in unconventional poses and settings?
5. What is the generally accepted name for the Puritans who became the earliest settlers in the Plymouth colony in America, in 1620?
6. The 1982 song "Sexual Healing" was the first single released by which singer after his break from Motown?
7. Bill and Hillary Clinton and Jim and Susan McDougal were investigated as part of what financial scandal by the US Justice Department in 1994?
8. Gouache, pointillism, and sable are terms which can be found in what discipline?
9. What name is given to a section of the Alps located mostly in the province of Belluno, and extending into the provinces of Bolzano-Bozen and Trento?
10. In which year did the space shuttle Challenger explode 73 seconds after lift off?
11. Whose final words, on 8 April 1973, were reported to be "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink any more" ?
12. Which 19th century American author went to sea aged 17 in a whaler, deserted twice, was captured by cannibals and joined a man of war before writing novels such as "White Jacket" and "Billy Budd" ?
13. Along the Bight of Benin in West Africa, what did European traders formerly call the coastal area between the Volta River in Ghana and the Lagos Lagoon in Nigeria?
14. The UK TV series Sharpe, 1993-2009, starred which two actors?
15. People who have cancer have wanted to take some forms of marijuana to help alleviate what?
16. Which of these is not a flatfish?
17. What is a dandie dinmont?
18. In bowls, what is the term applied to a green that slopes up slightly from each end towards the centre?
19. The "phylloxera epidemic" affects what?
20. "The Lone Ranger" made history as the first Western written specifically for television. Who were the stars of the show through most of the 1950s?
21. What, the first of its kind in Britain, was established by John Tate in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1489?
22. What food-related substance is extracted from the seeds of the achiote tree (Bixa orellana)?
23. In 2016, Jami Goldman Marseilles, became the first female what to finish the Boston Marathon?
24. The TV series "Sex and the City" was set where?
25. The first Winter Olympic Games were held in what year?
26. By what name is 17th century dramatist Jean Baptiste Poquelin better known?
27. The title "Simple on a Soapbox" uses ..... ?
28. In 1588 Francis Drake led the English navy against the Spanish what?
29. In British colloquial use what does "debagging" someone usually mean?
30. Eugene Gant is the central character in what celebrated American writer's first novel?
31. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, who was the only female competitor not to have a sex test?
32. Which type of harpsichord, developed in the 16th century, is box-like in shape and was designed to sit on a table or a lap?
33. Which of these bones is not found in the ear?
34. Which of these is a learned society for science, founded in November 1660, and granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II in 1662, with Lord Brouncker as its first President?
35. An ombrophobe or ombrophobous plant cannot withstand much what?
36. In the comic strip "Peanuts", whose father is a barber?
37. What was the name of the collection of Aubrey Beardsley's work published by Leonard Smithers in 1897?
38. Which of these is a song from the film musical Mary Poppins?
39. Which of these is a type of rice usually used to make risotto?
40. Who won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize?
41. Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko were political figures in which country?
42. Who was the bass guitarist who wrote the hits "You're My Best Friend", "Another One Bites the Dust", and "I Want to Break Free" ?
43. A map of the then known world in the 3rd century BCE, by Eratosthenes from Libya, includes Libya, Egypt and part of Europe, together with land as far east as India and Sri-Lanka (Ceylon) and as far west and north as what?
44. Which English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist is also a medical doctor?
45. Which British sculptor and artist of the 20th century, whose work was said to "exemplify Modernism" , was made a Dame in 1965 and died aged 72 in a fire in her studio at St Ives, Cornwall, in 1975?
46. Who assassinated Martin Luther King?
47. At the 2000 Olympics at Sydney, which Cuban was the second person in Olympic history to win three gold medals in Heavyweight boxing?
48. The counties of Alameda, El Dorado, Fresno, Marin, Mariposa, Nevada, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Sonoma and Ventura are in what state of the USA?
49. In classical music, what is the deepest female singing voice?
50. Johnny Weissmuller, the star of 12 "Tarzan" films between 1932 and 1948, won 5 Olympic gold medals in the 1920s in what sport?
51. What military conflict preceded the establishment of the military Kamakura shogunate that dominated Japan for 150 years, and the beginning of the dominance of the samurai over imperial rule in Japan for 650 years?
52. Comic actor Leslie Nielsen made huge sales with instructional videos for what activity?
53. Which of these venues is only open to women competitors in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, held in Hawai?
54. Which of these is a team sport played with sticks, where a ball called a sliotar is hit between the opponents' goalposts, either over the crossbar for 1 point, or under the crossbar past a goalkeeper into a net for 3 points?
55. Which of these was a leading figure in the Spanish Inquisition?
56. A brutal lightweight unification fight in 2005 (of the WBO and WBC titles), was won by Diego Corrales with a TKO in the tenth round, after what?
57. If something is called "tuppenny ha'penny" what is meant?
58. Three times F1 World Champion Niki Lauda was severely burnt in a crash on what track in the 1976 F1 World Championship?
59. The epitaph on whose tomb is followed by the deceased's own couplet: "Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it." ?
60. Which of these is a central concept in quantum physics?
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