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General Knowledge Quiz 307 (60 MCQs)

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1. During her early television career, Australian actor, comedian, writer, singer, and producer Rebel Wilson graduated from university with a Bachelor of Arts and what else?
2. What expression that probably comes from a description of the components of a musket means "everything" ?
3. By what name is the writer Alfred Maximovitch Peshkov better known?
4. The Mocha coffee bean is named after what?
5. The scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch is known as what?
6. In what country was the French colony of Cochinchina, which was conquered in 1862?
7. There are 1, 860 steps from where to where?
8. The characters of Doris Schwartz and Leroy Johnson appeared in what 1980s TV series?
9. An astrolabe was used for astrology, navigation and what else?
10. Who is the next in this series:John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry ..... ?
11. What is the main ingredient in biriani?
12. What is another name for the zodiac sign "water carrier" ?
13. Which artist, born in Leeuwarden in 1898, is famous for his optical illusions such as "Ascending And Descending", "Convex and Concave", and "Metamorphosis I" ?
14. "Joseph" had what garment that was worth putting in the title of a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, ?
15. Where does the Suriname common toad, or Pipa toad, lay and hatch its eggs?
16. What film production company was named after brothers Harry (born Hirsz), Albert (born Aaron), Sam (born Szmul), and Jack (born Itzhak)?
17. In which game would you use a wooden ball called a cochonnet?
18. Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young artillery officer of Alsatian-Jewish descent, was convicted in France in 1894 and again in 1899 of treason. Evidence against whom, the real culprit, surfaced by 1896 but was suppressed and only given weight to exonerate him in 1906 after a prolonged public campaign?
19. Which of these is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Myanmar?
20. Which of these is a character from the musical "Annie" ?
21. The mythical figure of Adonis was said to have what quality?
22. Known as "snap apple", "bobbing for apples" and "dooking" what does this game ask its participants to do?
23. Which wonder of the ancient world was at Halicarnassus, Persia?
24. By what name is actor William Pratt better known?
25. Who has won the most Olympic Gold medals?
26. Where was a battle fought between General Robert E Lee and General Meade from 1 to 3 July 1863, which is generally accepted as the turning point of the American Civil War?
27. Hypotenuses figure in what?
28. What is a popular name for the North American bison?
29. What is the science of weather and climate?
30. How many adjectives are there in the following sentence: "The tall old man in a smart black suit hit the little green car with a long red stick" ?
31. What is the common name for trypanosomiasis?
32. On 6 February 1840, what document was signed by Captain William Hobson (on behalf of Queen Victoria) and a number of Maori chiefs as the basis for New Zealand to become part of the British Empire?
33. According to Greek legend, whose fate was to stand near the garden of the Hesperides and support the universe on his shoulders?
34. Who was the Anglo-Irish scientist who, in the 17th century, discovered that "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure" ?
35. What characterises the Pantanal?
36. Which country does the team represent who won gold in 2016, bronze in 2015, at the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships?
37. A 1952 film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Jean Hagen was "Singin' In The ..... '' what?
38. For how long is a US Supreme Court Justice appointed?
39. Where is the area of 127, 000 square kilometres (49, 000 sq miles) in central South Australia, where public entry is restricted under Defence laws and regulations?
40. Where can a grunion be found?
41. Aso Rock, where CHOGM's (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) Declaration on Development and Democracy:Partnership for Peace and Prosperity was signed in 2003, is closest to which African city?
42. Which is a bio-mass, renewable, energy resource?
43. Who wrote "Treasure Island", "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "Kidnapped" and "The Master of Ballantrae" ?
44. Why did Washington cross the Delaware to Trenton on the night of 25 December 1776?
45. How many sucker-bearing arms do squids have?
46. The phrase "wardrobe malfunction" entered pop music vocabulary following a performance at the Super Bowl XXXVIII between Janet Jackson and which other singer?
47. English artist, writer and musician Holly Johnson is best known as the lead vocalist of which 1980s band?
48. Which of these, a founder-member of the band Squeeze, is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, songwriter, composer, TV presenter and author?
49. The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Zanzibar are in which ocean?
50. Where was the world's most powerful recorded volcanic eruption?
51. Where is the Headingley Cricket Ground?
52. Which of these describes a widespread hedgehog behaviour?
53. What would be found on a palette?
54. Where was "the Maccabiah bridge collapse", the failure of a pedestrian bridge over the Yarkon River on 14 July 1997 which killed 4 and injured 60?
55. What is one of the deadliest pandemics in history, believed to have first reached Europe at the trading city of Caffa in the Crimea in 1347 and peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350?
56. Phoebe is a moon of which planet?
57. If someone is given hippocras what is being offered?
58. On 10 May 1775, during the American Revolutionary War, a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame and looted Fort Ticonderoga, a small British garrison, and took away cannons and other armaments to fortify which city that was under siege?
59. In 2004 it was announced that what new fixture was planned for Wimbledon's Centre Court, to be completed in 2009?
60. United Artists, formed in 1919 as a reaction from commercial film companies of the time, was an alliance between actors Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks and who else?
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