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General Knowledge Quiz 306 (60 MCQs)

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1. The study of the behaviour and properties of light is the subject of what branch of physics?
2. What does a CD player use to read a CD?
3. In the 18th century, Carl Linnaeus laid the foundations for what system, still in use today?
4. What is the family name of the rulers of Monaco?
5. What name was given to the predominant type of 20th-century battleship, with an 'all-big-gun' armament & steam turbine propulsion, that was named after the first of the kind, launched by the Royal Navy in 1906?
6. A car bomb which was detonated in 2002 in Karachi, one of a series of attacks believed to be directed at Westerners, caused the cancellation of what national event in Pakistan?
7. What instruments, respectively, did jazz virtuosos Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt play in their collaborations?
8. What is the connection between the sport of Badminton and the Duke of Beaufort?
9. From the 1904 Olympic Games, when diving was first introduced, until the 2020 Games which country holds the highest tally of both gold medals and medals overall?
10. What is present name of the city which gave its original name to the famous Angostura bitters?
11. Which US TV show, where the star appeared as a fictionalised version of himself with his friends George Costanza, Elaine Benes and Cosmo Kramer, ran for 9 seasons?
12. The Bering Sea is named after what or whom?
13. What is the Song of Songs part of?
14. What was Scottish inventor James Watt interested in?
15. Where was the Brazilian driver who won three Formula One world championships for McLaren killed in 1994?
16. What was the instrument of US jazzman Charles Mingus?
17. A "fingerplate" is a piece of metal used to deter fingermarks appearing on what?
18. Where in the USA is the Golden Gate bridge?
19. Anders Behring Breivik is known for what?
20. Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Joan Baez are associated with what style of music?
21. What birds are found in quantity on the red-tinged, shallow salty waters of Laguna Colorado, Bolivia?
22. What was invented by Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize?
23. What do the Oricon Charts measure?
24. Quokkas live in small communities on the coast of Western Australia and on offshore islands. Where is the largest community?
25. Where is the International Gemological Institute and the World Diamond Centre, which play an important role in setting standards, regulating professional ethics, training and promoting the interests of the city as a centre of the diamond industry?
26. Who broke the NFL record for the most points in a single season, with 176 points, in 1960?
27. What does the "S" stand for in NASDAQ?
28. Which of these words best describes Monaco?
29. When was the Danube-Black Sea Canal completed?
30. Christine de Pizan (1364-c. 1430) was France's first what?
31. What was the immediate reason for riots in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, in April 2007?
32. In which country is the city of Newry?
33. What or who was the Somme in the name of the First World War battle?
34. What city was once known as Lutèce?
35. What was the cause of strikes and rioting across France in October 2010?
36. Which of these people was not assassinated in 1963?
37. Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, was previously known as what?
38. Forty hours before he committed suicide in 1945 Adolf Hitler married whom?
39. What usually causes the bone disease called rickets?
40. What was the subtitle of the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley?
41. Which of these did not appear in the "Coronation Street" 40th anniversary live episode, which was broadcast on Friday 8 December 2000?
42. The element cobalt gets its name from the German word for what?
43. Which American medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins (water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane)?
44. Who would use a "huehuetl" ?
45. What is a term for the flora and fauna at the bottom of a sea or lake?
46. In 938 CE, the Vietnamese lord Ngô Quyền did what for his country?
47. When was the first Juneteenth marked in the US?
48. Inspector Morse of the TV series (1987-2000) of the same name was very reticent about his first name; the name eventually revealed then became the title of a prequel, but what was it?
49. Who won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest?
50. Which of these became an independent country in 1948?
51. Where was the Clivus Multrum patented in 1969?
52. The Corfu Incident in 1923 involved Greece and what other country?
53. What is the word for a mat placed under a glass or cup to protect a surface?
54. What was the former name of Iran?
55. Who is a central figure in Homer's "Iliad" ?
56. In what medium did Michelangelo create the Sistine chapel ceiling work for which he is known?
57. Which 1961 film, originally designed to star Marilyn Monroe, then Shirley MacLaine, then Kim Novak, eventually went on to be nominated for 5 Oscars (including Best Actress) and won two:Best Original Score and Best Original Song?
58. With which of these record labels was choral conductor, record producer, record-industry executive, and professional oboist Mitch Miller associated in the 1950s and 1960s?
59. Which author, two of whose works are "Sketches by Boz" and "Little Dorrit", spent some months as a boy with his father in Marshalsea debtors' prison in England?
60. Which medical tool has relied on mercury?
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