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General Knowledge Quiz 303 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is a child star of the 1930s?
2. British artist Matthew Bourne, OBE, was knighted in 2016 for services to what?
3. What is a pipistrelle?
4. Which city, rebuilt in the Art Deco style after being largely razed by an earthquake in 1931, has become recognized as architecturally unique, and in 2007 was nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site status?
5. In some parts of the world, the position in rugby called "first five eighth" is called what?
6. "Immersive journalism", of the kind presented by Nonny de la Peรฑa's "Hunger in Los Angeles" in 2012 uses what technique?
7. The hair from which of these animals is never used to make a camel's hair brush?
8. Which pope was elected in 1414, ending the situation where there were multiple Popes?
9. When is Shakespeare's play "Troilus and Cressida" set?
10. Which US golfer birdied the last 2 holes at the 2004 Honda Classic to beat Davis Love III, and beat Ernie Els at the 2004 British Open at Royal Troon to become PGA Tour Rookie of the Year?
11. If someone feels jiggered what are they?
12. What is the main ingredient of "toad in the hole" ?
13. Which of these is not one of the children of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne?
14. Of which country is Vientiane the capital?
15. Perspicuity implies what?
16. Who wrote, often with Howard Greenfield, the songs "Oh! Carol" (1959), "Calendar Girl" (1960), "Little Devil" (1961), "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" (1961), "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (1962) and "Next Door to an Angel" (1962)?
17. Where in the body is a collarette found?
18. Yggdrasil is the immense what, connecting the nine worlds of Norse mythology?
19. Who was the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote "Frankenstein", verse plays, romances and travel books?
20. Which of these phrases is associated with the "Scarlet Pimpernel" ?
21. Who created the international competition called the Goodwill Games, that were held between 1986 and 2001?
22. By what name was William Frederick Cody better known?
23. Andrew Lloyd Webber stands in what relationship to Julian Lloyd Webber, the renowned cellist?
24. Where is the city of Riyadh?
25. What are likely to interest a numismatist specially?
26. Which British sitcom that first aired from 1975 to 1978, written by Bob Larbey and John Esmonde, starred Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington?
27. Where was the astronomer Copernicus born?
28. Hamlet figures in which play?
29. The film of which novel, at least its 19th screen version, was released in 2012?
30. Developments, initially by researchers in the University of Manchester, in creating a graphene sieve are aimed at doing what?
31. Which author in his book, "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow", observed " "We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one" ?
32. In what language were the first of the series of comic strips and books by novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author Tove Jansson about a Finnish family published?
33. When did Christians first celebrate Christmas Day on 25 December?
34. With what religion were and are the 20th century and later forms of the American movement the Ku Klux Klan loosely associated?
35. Who had a hit in 2009 singing "Womanizer woman-womanizer you're a womanizer oh womanizer oh you're a womanizer baby you you you are you you you are womanizer womanizer womanizer" ?
36. Which of these countries has the highest population density?
37. Lake Louise and Fairview Mountain are tourist attractions in which country?
38. What function must be applied to the numbers 10 and 5 to provide 2 as the result?
39. Acol, Standard American, Vanderbilt, Moscito System are all types of what?
40. In the lexicon of James Bond films who or what is Monique Delacroix?
41. Balsam and cottonwoods are species of what?
42. Three shepherd children had sightings of the Virgin Mary on the 13th day of 6 consecutive months in 1917, starting on 13 May, near a town called Fatima, which is in what country?
43. Where is the saline soda lake, Lake Bogoria (at one time Lake Hannington)?
44. Traditionally, what is used to coat Edam cheese?
45. What are marram, fescue, and rye?
46. Frank Dekum, a 19th-century banker in Portland, Oregon, contributed money to import what to Oregon?
47. Where in London would you find "Rotten Row" ?
48. Which of these is not in the borough of Manhattan, New York City?
49. How many rounds did it take for Lennox Lewis to beat Mike Tyson in 2002?
50. At the 1976 Olympics, who, at age 14, scored so highly that the score board could not display her score?
51. Which British monarch granted the first royal charter to what was eventually known as The East India Company?
52. Which of these words is closest to a synonym for "homily" ?
53. Waqf, or hibss, is something under Islamic law which provides what?
54. Which of these starred in the 2001 film "Gladiator" ?
55. Which of these stories occurs in the Bible's book of Genesis?
56. For which World Championship is the Summoner's Cup awarded?
57. Which two bodies of water does the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait connect?
58. Under what country's banner were two teams entered in the 1904 Olympics in the same sport?
59. In the acronym NASA, what does the first "A" stand for?
60. What is "hydrophobia" applied to?
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