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General Knowledge Quiz 309 (60 MCQs)

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1. What would one expect to find if there are homonyms?
2. In what way does a luge rider travel?
3. Where was international soccer goalkeeper Fabien Barthez born?
4. What word is used to describe the situation where blood has pooled at the lowest point of a dead body?
5. Which of these waterfalls is on the border between the USA and Canada?
6. Whose 2006 album "Back to Black" had 6 Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made her the first British singer to win 5 Grammys?
7. In 2014 what are the main differences between the Australian and New Zealand flags?
8. What in particular makes Aoshima Island, Japan, a tourist destination for Japanese?
9. Castoreum, which comes from a beaver, is used as an ingredient in what?
10. The Karakoram mountain range spans the borders of Pakistan and what other country or countries?
11. Dr Nelson Glueck, rabbi and head of the Hebrew Union College from 1947-1971, was also renowned as a what?
12. According to Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend, who, in Silene, Libya, saved a princess from a dragon by capturing it, and led it to the king, promising to kill it if his people converted to Christianity?
13. Who played Patch, the elf in "Santa Claus:The Movie" ?
14. For what feat did American Fred A. Birchmore become well-known after 1935?
15. What is the base for the common logarithm?
16. If the product of 7 and 2 is written 16, and the sum of 7 and 2 is written 11, what is the mathematical system being used?
17. Which TV series contained the characters Sybil, Polly, Basil and Manuel?
18. Flowers of papilionaceous plants resemble what?
19. The first playoff tiebreaker in Major League Baseball history was held on 1 & 3 October 1946, a best-of-three playoff to decide the winner of the MLB National League (NL) conference, between which 2 teams?
20. What name is given to someone who can follow an animal that is some distance ahead in the wild?
21. Which of these is a flightless bird?
22. What is one of the notable aspects of the character Rumpelstiltskin?
23. Which team won the eighth World Polo Championship in Mexico in May 2008?
24. Which major institution was officially established in the USA in 1846 for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, following the melting down of over 100, 000 gold coins?
25. Which number is exactly opposite 12 through the centre of a dart board?
26. What is the next in this sequence:Palatine Hill, Capitoline Hill, Quirinal Hill, Viminal Hill, Esquiline Hill, Caelian Hill, ..... ?
27. What is a young alpaca called?
28. LIGO observatories are a large-scale physics experiment to detect what?
29. Who made the statue "Alison Lapper Pregnant" that was erected in Trafalgar Square, London, between September 2005 and October 2007?
30. In the "Back to the Future" series of films, the past was 1955, and the future was 2015. When was "now" ?
31. To recuse somebody, or to recuse oneself, from making a judgement implies that a potential problem is seen. Of what?
32. Which of these is a footballer who married a Spice Girl?
33. In which state of Australia would you find the Snowy Mountains?
34. Which UK television crime series (1996-now) premiered in 1996 with Amanda Burton as Dr Sam Ryan, and from 2004 has starred Emilia Fox?
35. The song "Shall We Dance" is from which musical?
36. What is the early morning or night prayer service in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and Eastern Orthodox churches, used in some Protestant denominations to describe morning services?
37. Mike Judge is the creator of which of these TV series?
38. "Alba" is the Gaelic name for what?
39. What are SMS messages sent by?
40. Reginald Rose wrote a play adapted from his 1957 teleplay, and later film, script of the same name. The film became famous with Henry Fonda in the lead role as foreman of a jury. What was the play?
41. What does the US institute, NARAS founded in 1957, hand out annually?
42. A famous, now infamous, Australian entertainer known for rapid paintings is who?
43. The Iguazu Falls are on the border of which two countries?
44. Which Austrian, the brother of Franz Joseph, was crowned Emperor of Mexico in 1864, and shot in 1867?
45. Which is a watered-looking textile finish, usually on a fabric with defined ribs including grosgrain, taffeta, some silk, wool, cotton and rayon?
46. Which of these is a port in Norway?
47. Where is the only wild population of the Saimaa ringed seal?
48. Ulfberht was a mediaeval luxury what?
49. What is historiography?
50. Who was the first person from the USA to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
51. At the end of 2016 the Bayern Munich and Real Madrid football teams used kits with what unusual quality?
52. In fairy tales, black cats are associated with what people?
53. The 2003 film "What A Girl Wants", with Amanda Bynes as the illegitimate daughter of a British politician played by Colin Firth, was a remake of which 1958 film starring Rex Harrison and Sandra Dee?
54. What does Thomas, chief minister for King Henry VIII of England 1532-1540 and powerful advocate for the religious Reformation, have in common with Oliver, leader of the government which in its early days beheaded King Charles I of England?
55. Who was Oliver's mentor, appointed by Fagin?
56. Which of these is not a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice?
57. Which of these actresses was born in Australia?
58. In 2004, who released his long awaited album, "Smile" ?
59. In France, which of these establishments specialises in selling bread?
60. Which word can serve as a prefix or a suffix, or on its own as an adjective, to mean chief or leader?
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