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General Knowledge Quiz 304 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the common name for encephalitis lethargica?
2. In darts, what is the next in the sequence 1, 18, 4, 13, 6?
3. Which photographer who emigrated to Canada in 1937 is best known for his photographs of the Ottawa region (his picture of floating logs on the Ottawa River was on the 1969-1979 series Canadian $ 1 bill), and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1996?
4. What is recognised as the world's largest island?
5. Cherry barbs, koi, bristlenose pleco and neon tetras are types of what?
6. What is the literal translation of the Russian word "Kremlin" ?
7. The coastal city of Chittagong is in which country?
8. " ..... all it takes is a little confidence" is the tag line for which 1973 Oscar-winning film?
9. Where were the 2012 Paralympics held?
10. Which book by Sir Thomas More, his view of an ideal society with community ownership, was written in Latin in 1516 and translated into English in 1551?
11. What gives the Río Tinto in southwestern Spain its colour?
12. Which small male marine animal incubates its eggs on the underside of its tail?
13. In what country was the longest recorded monarchy?
14. One of the stars from each of the films "The Hobbit" and the TV film "Van Gogh:Painted with Words" front the UK detective series called what?
15. What TV show was described by its creator as "a show about nothing" ?
16. What does the Roman Catholic Church collectively call Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Penance, Ordination, Eucharist and Extreme Unction?
17. What has been the motto of the Prince of Wales since the 14th century?
18. One of the oldest mountain ranges in the world lies along the east of the USA and Canada, and is called the ..... ?
19. When sportsperson Brittney Griner returned from imprisonment in Russia in December 2022, she was then able to continue to play in what professional discipline?
20. Who committed suicide after she was abandoned by Aeneas?
21. Irish, British and Welsh (respectively) comedians and television presenters, Dara O Briain, Rory McGrath and Griff Rhys Jones, rowed a wooden skiff in what BBC TV programme?
22. In the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, who did Gandalf fight at the Bridge of Khazad-dum before he fell into the abyss?
23. How are coffee beans harvested?
24. Which of these is not one of South Africa's three capital cities?
25. Which of these marks an increasing break between the African and the Arabian tectonic plates?
26. Who was the "Angela" whose ashes Frank McCourt included in the title of his memoir (publ. 1996)?
27. As who is Naruhito, son of Akihito, always known in Japan?
28. Which of these is a 600-mile (1, 000 km) strip of land on the Pacific coast of South America, that is believed to be the driest desert in the world outside Antarctica?
29. In which country is the area called "the Algarve" ?
30. What is the "Uroclub", invented by Floyd E Seskin of Florida, which looks like a big-handled golf club?
31. Several unexpected and late participants in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, came from which country?
32. Which musical term means "sweetly" ?
33. Who or what is the centre of the 1983 film "Let's Spend the Night Together" directed by Hal Ashby?
34. The practice of divining and prophesying the future through dreams is known as what?
35. What is the name of the short bar with weights at each end that is sometimes used by bodybuilders?
36. The developing Great East-West Schism between the eastern and western arms of the Christian church was marked in 1054 by which watershed event between the leaders of the two arms?
37. Where, in 1934, was land distributed to peasants, church property nationalised, the railway taken over by its employees and, in 1938, the property of US and British oil companies confiscated?
38. What type of drink is "scrumpy" ?
39. Who was the Greek goddess of victory daughter of Pallas represented as a winged figure wreathed or palm bearing sometimes guiding victors' horses?
40. Who or what took the Great Trek which started in 1836?
41. What was the name given to a type of xylophone consisting of large stones, dating from 2, 500-4, 000 BC found in China?
42. An "aide memoire" to know the first numbers of the constant pi can be obtained by counting the letters in each word of which of these?
43. Where is the "Day of Skulls" celebrated on 8 November?
44. Bourke's Luck Potholes and God's Window are part of what African ecoregion?
45. He brought back plants from Europe, the Arctic, the Levant, sailed to fight pirates, and amassed trophies of natural history, art and ethnography in "the Ark" in London which then opened as Great Britain's first public museum. Who was he?
46. Where in Europe would you go to attend the World Backgammon Championship?
47. What is the only geometric shape that has infinite lines of symmetry?
48. In 2001, which actor was re-elected president of the USA's National Rifle Association for a fourth term?
49. Yelena Isinbayeva broke her first World record in 2003 and continued to break records until 2009 in what sport?
50. Who was the men's single sculls world champion at the World Rowing Championships every year it was competed from 2005 to 2009 and again in 2011, and gold medallist in the 2012 Summer Olympics?
51. Léon de Lunden killed 21 of what to win his gold medal at the 1900 Olympic Games?
52. In 1434, Portuguese mariner Gil Eanes made a major breakthrough to obtain a reliable trade route to Western and Eastern Africa and India by finding a route around which cape?
53. Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood's clothing shop in Chelsea, London was called "Let It Rock" when it opened. The name was changed to "Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die" 1972, and was next called what?
54. If something is complementary, what is it?
55. How many feet are there in a fathom?
56. What is the traditional symbol for a fifth wedding anniversary?
57. In August 2015 the Indian Government signed a Framework Agreement taking the first steps to bring peace in the independence struggle between India and which?
58. What fictitious national park was the setting for the 1960s TV series "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo" ?
59. Approximately how far had the royal Swedish warship, the Vasa, sailed before she sank on 10 August 1628?
60. What would you expect a quidnunc to do?
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