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General Knowledge Quiz 300 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the rich soil known as loess?
2. What is another name for "mother of pearl" ?
3. What is the setting for the 1993 film "Alive", which stars Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano and Josh Hamiltonset and is narrated by John Malkovich?
4. What is the height of a triangle with an area of 16 square metres and a base 4 metres long?
5. The eco-region known as the Gissaro-Alai open woodlands covers western foothills in Tajikistan, parts of Uzbekistan and where else?
6. According to the Bible, who is the father of Ham, Shem and Japheth?
7. Of the many western series popular in the US in the 1960s and 70s, which one was renamed "The Men from Shiloh" in its final year on network TV?
8. When the UK and France joined the Crimean War in 1854 who was their opponent?
9. Which was the case for the major boxing matches at New York's Madison Square Garden on 30 April 2022 and at Glasgow's Hydro on 13 May 2022?
10. Whose record album, produced by Phil Spector, was released while he is in jail serving a 19 year sentence for murder?
11. Who wrote the 1973 novel "Gravity's Rainbow" ?
12. What is the name of the longest stretch of river in Poland?
13. An organisation formed in 1890 to promote cooperation across the countries of Latin America and the U.S was established under what name?
14. In the 1979 film "Alien" which of these actors plays a character that has an alien burst out of his body?
15. What nationality is the female lead in the role of the Jane Doe in US TV series "Blindspot" (2015)?
16. Which is the guillotine most popularly associated with?
17. Which of these religions is not founded on the teachings of a single person?
18. What winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting was called "military patrol" when it was contested at the Olympic Winter Games in 1924, and demonstrated in 1928, 1936, and 1948?
19. Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia and what other country are on the Horn of Africa?
20. What is someone waving in a well-known music hall song, "The boy I love is ..... a'wavin' of his ..... "?
21. The Great Falls of the Potomac River are located upstream (to the northwest) of which US city?
22. Which of these is an architect for supertall buildings, such as 10 Fleet Place, Ludgate, London (1992), AT & T Corporate Center, Chicago (1989), Jubilee Park Pavilion, London (2004) and the Trump International Hotel & Tower, Chicago (2009)?
23. Who, in 2005 at the age of 24, a year after leaving university, joined her father's billion dollar global conglomerate Organisation (mainly in real estate) as Executive Vice-President of Development & Acquisitions?
24. In 2013 a new gene-editing system was discovered which offered an alternative to protein-based targeting. What was it called?
25. What strait is between the Russian island of Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaidō?
26. Which of these was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American west, who was most active from the 1920s to 1950s?
27. What is the main unit of currency in Turkey?
28. In which game are the clues mimed?
29. Which of these lands are thought to have originated in the prehistoric supercontinent of Gondwana?
30. In Commonwealth countries sugar soap, used for cleaning greasy or tarry deposits from surfaces, contains what chemical(s)?
31. Which of these is a country in northern South America?
32. Ben Hollioake who with his brother Adam made his England Test debut in the 1997 One Day International (ODI), made two test appearances and earned 20 ODI caps before he died in 2002 at the age of 24 in Australia. How did he die?
33. In which city is the Imperial Spanish Riding School?
34. Who, aged 54, married 18 year old Oona O'Neill, the daughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill, in June 1943?
35. What is the Louisiana Creole cuisine spice, gumbo filé, made from?
36. Which were the first Summer Olympic Games in which more than 100 nations participated?
37. BAFTA winning film "The Theory of Everything" is adapted from which book?
38. What is a medical term referring to the presence of pathogenic organisms in the bloodstream, leading to blood poisoning?
39. What is the capital of the province of Quebec, Canada?
40. Who was the composer behind the 2023 musical "The Little Big Things" ?
41. Emma Watson starred in what 2012 film, the year after the Harry Potter series and her role as Hermione Granger finished?
42. After his defeat at Waterloo, to where was Napoleon exiled?
43. Which British fashion designer spent his working life from 1934 to 1979 at 26 Bruton Street, Mayfair, London, and designed for the Royal family, notably the wedding dress of Princess Elizabeth in 1947 for her marriage to Prince Philip, the 1953 Coronation Dress of Queen Elizabeth II and those of all the major royal ladies, including the wedding dress of HRH Princess Margaret in 1960?
44. The Tower of Babel is mentioned in which book of the Bible?
45. Which 2014 play by American playwright and journalist Katori Hall deals with the ecstatic visions of Rwandan schoolgirls in 1981?
46. Which British athlete won gold at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics in the T44 men's 100 metres?
47. In January 2006, what space probe was sent to investigate Pluto?
48. What qualifies as a "specialty vehicle" in a Put Foot Rally?
49. What is the largest city in the province of Ontario, Canada?
50. Which French record producer, actor, singer, songwriter and musical theatre composer, is best known for his collaborations with the lyricist Alain Boublil for the musicals "La Révolution Française", "Les Misérables", "Miss Saigon", "Martin Guerre", "The Pirate Queen" and "Marguerite" ?
51. The saying "It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it" appears in one form or another in many places, including being mistakenly attributed to which US author?
52. If you do not have an instrument to measure angles, what are the most useful tools with which to draw a right angle?
53. Musician, DJ, producer, curator, activist, D.J. Rekha (or Rekha Malhotra) pioneered what dance form in North America?
54. Who wrote "In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking" ?
55. The author of "The Bottle Imp", a short story written for people of his adopted home, Samoa, took the name Tusitala. What does the name mean?
56. At which university on 4 May 1970 were 4 students killed and 9 wounded when an Army National Guard unit fired at students during a protest against the US invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War?
57. Who premièred the role of Evita in the original studio recording of the musical?
58. A horse who completes a 12 furlong race has run how far?
59. In the musical "The Wiz" (1975), who is Addaperle?
60. A team from which of these countries competed in the Olympic Games for the first time in 1952 at Helsinki?
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