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General Knowledge Quiz 301 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the term for someone a young woman will keep on good terms with so she will be bought presents?
2. In the UK TV series "Foyle's War" (2002-2015), what was Foyle's profession or occupation?
3. What is the first move in playing the game Catan?
4. Entomology is the study of what?
5. Where was the playwright August Strindberg born?
6. One of the tools developed and launched in 2014 as a brand for Sweden is ..... ?
7. Approximately how far is the moon from Earth?
8. Which of these is the nearest to the usual definition of ghost personnel?
9. Who commissioned the "Ballet des Polonais", one of the first works to be recognized as a true court ballet?
10. What title was taken by Napoleon Bonaparte on 2 December 1804?
11. The MacRobertson Shield competition is held in what sport?
12. Who makes horseshoes?
13. Among the several meanings of the word "popinjay", which of these is one?
14. In bowling, which of these means to knock down all ten pins with a single bowl?
15. According to the old saying, "All roads lead to ..... '' where?
16. After World War II Emperor Hirohito of Japan signed the treaty ending the state of war with Britain on 9 September of which year?
17. Which of these is not a name to associate with the art of medicine?
18. What is the name of the flower named after pop singer Duffy?
19. Denzel Washington and Viola Davis co-starred in which Academy Award-winning film?
20. In 1992 UNESCO declared the Casbah, or qasba, of Algiers a World Heritage Site. What is the Casbah?
21. Who was the first to be credited with the opinion which led eventually to a quote describing history as a set of lies agreed upon?
22. In 1989 Carlo Petrini founded what?
23. Which is essential in practising the art of topiary?
24. Which of these processes involves inserting needle tips in the skin?
25. What is the next number in the series 1, 16, 81, 256, 625?
26. What is the birth name of Kim Wilde, the daughter of 1950s UK rock 'n' roller Marty Wilde, whose debut single "Kids in America" (1981) reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart?
27. Which 1909 one-act opera was the first of the many collaborations between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal?
28. The British TV series "Porridge" was set in what prison?
29. Referred to as the father of history, the Greek writer Herodotus wrote about the social, political, cultural and economic lead-up to, events and consequences of what?
30. Georgetown, Guyana, is situated at the mouth of which river?
31. What is the thick watery substance filling the space between the lens and the retina of the eye?
32. Which of the continents is the smallest in area?
33. Which of these has had the most influence on the architecture of Barcelona?
34. Which of these was a stage and early film actress, born in Paris, France, who became famous on the stages of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas?
35. What is the generic title of a series of French comic strips that were written originally by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo?
36. Which of these lines in a limerick have to rhyme?
37. Which of these actors became a quadriplegic after being thrown from a horse?
38. What is the name of the French National Theatre, established in 1680?
39. Except for 1978, which team won every World Lacrosse Championship between 1967 and 2002?
40. Which US TV sitcom, set to theme music by George and Ira Gershwin, ran 1995 to 1998 and was nominated for 12 Emmy Awards, being given the 1996 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series-Musical or Comedy?
41. In 2015 Baron Coe became President of which organisation?
42. In south-west Bolivia the Potosi desert has what nick-name internationally?
43. The poem "The New Colossus" that begins "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses ..... " is inscribed where?
44. Who was the head of an international sporting body who once suggested that women players (in that sport) should wear tighter shorts and lowcut shirts to make their game more appealing?
45. A partial meltdown in a nuclear power plant on 20 March 1979 happened where?
46. Badfinger, Black Dyke Band, Elephant's Memory, Grapefruit, Mary Hopkin, Jackie Lomax, Modern Jazz Quartet, Radha Krsna Temple, Ravi Shankar, Ronnie Spector, James Taylor and White Trash have all recorded for what label?
47. What is the highest mountain in Queensland, Australia (1622 metres), named in 1873 after a British colonial administrator who later became president of the Royal Geographical Society?
48. What forms part of the official symbol of Jainism, known as the Jain Prateek Chihna, agreed upon in 1974?
49. How many teams have ever entered the Olympic La Crosse competitions?
50. Who was the Merchant of Yonkers, in the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder?
51. As at 2017 the men's high jump record, set in 1993, is 2.45 m (8 ft 0 1⁄4 in). What is the current women's high jump record?
52. How did Puerto Rico become a US possession?
53. In which city can you visit the Luigi Ferraris Stadium, the gardens of the Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini, the Piazza De Ferrari, the cemetery of Staglieno, the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art and the Torre della Lanterna?
54. The extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe, was known as what?
55. Whose collection, shown in 1947 and called "The New Look", reintroduced the "hourglass" shape for women's fashion?
56. As reported in the November 2016 issue of the international science journal, Nature, what animals particularly like being tickled?
57. If somewhere or something is noisome it ..... ?
58. Claris Cliff is a famous designer of what items?
59. In economic terms what does seigniorage mean?
60. The words "a" and "an" are what parts of speech?
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