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General Knowledge Quiz 31 (60 MCQs)

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1. With what sport are Donald Bradman, Stewie Dempster, Sid Barnes, Graeme Pollock, George Headley, and Herbert Sutcliffe associated?
2. What is a chaconne, or a passacaglia?
3. Where is the kind of water flow known as thalweg found?
4. At which UK General Election was Helen Grant elected, the Conservative Party's first black female MP?
5. What is one of the disciplines in which English artist Kate Tempest works?
6. Which British television series, presented by a wine writer and a co-presenter of a programme for car enthusiasts, tours around the UK sampling locally-made alcohol?
7. The short story writer Katherine Mansfield died in 1923 at the age of 34 from what?
8. Speculation about the possibility of a southern land mass has been around for at least 2, 000 years. When was the first recorded sighting of the Antarctic continent?
9. Belgian landscape and garden designer Jacques Wirtz specialised in sculpture using what medium?
10. What was abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833?
11. To whom anong these would Henry V, as he appears in William Shakespeare's play of the same name, have been able to talk in the period leading up to the play?
12. "Parturient" applies to something which is what?
13. The formula (X²)² is the same as which of these?
14. Who is reputed to have survived over 55 assassination attempts, the most notable of which (the only time in modern history when a Head of State has personally exchanged fire with a potential assassin) was in 1931?
15. Gamekeeping is the occupation of the title character in which of these?
16. Which was the last of these Woody Allen movies to be released?
17. Which of these was a slogan for American Express?
18. What is Gaganyaan?
19. The Yucatan Channel is between which two countries?
20. If a steam locomotive is described as a 2-4-0, how many driving wheels does it have?
21. What element takes its name from the German word for "evil spirit" ?
22. The film "Spectre" (2015) is centred on what?
23. Which long-running British TV series featured the characters Captain Peacock, Mrs. Slocombe, Mr. Humphries, Miss Brahms, Mr. Rumbold, Mr. Grainger and Mr. Lucas?
24. At the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games, where were the singers who performed the theme song, "Flying with the Dream", from?
25. Metallurgist, astronomer and geometer Ali Kashmiri Ibn Luqman is the first known to have created what in the late 16th century?
26. Which of these islands belongs to France?
27. What is Longinus known for in Christian tradition?
28. Where is Cox's Bazar, or Panowa?
29. Who is associated with the Lotus car manufacturing company?
30. Who invaded Europe from Mongolia and Turkey over 300 years, beginning in the 13th century?
31. Billy Bones is a character in what book?
32. Which artist designed and created the engraved glass figures which fill the Great West Wall of St Michael's Cathedral in Coventry, UK?
33. What was the arbalest which came into use in Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries?
34. "I Know Him So Well" is from what musical?
35. Which of these is a unit of radiation exposure?
36. Which islands in the South Pacific between New Guinea and South America were annexed by France in 1842?
37. Which small country won its only Olympic gold medals since it first participated in 1936, at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, USA?
38. What is the present name of the country in which the Winter Olympics of 1984 were held?
39. In which of these countries is there not a Mount Olympus?
40. Raymond Briggs, English graphic novelist, artist, illustrator and cartoonist, first found enduring popularity with what work?
41. What large, flat valley that dominates the central portion of the state of California USA and stretches approximately 800 kilometres (500 miles) has the northern half called the Sacramento Valley, and the southern half the San Joaquin Valley, which meet at the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta?
42. Alfred Brendel is mostly associated with what instrument?
43. What does the French word "jambon" mean in English?
44. A barrel is a standard unit in both the oil and the fermented or distilled drinks industries; if traditionally it is 42 US gallons (158.9873 litres) for crude oil or other petroleum products how many US gallons is it traditionally for wine?
45. Which Greek philosopher, from the 6th century BCE, is best known for a mathematical theorem which bears his name and for leading a group who discovered square numbers and proposed that the earth was round, planets have an axis, and they travel around the sun?
46. Where are the Tasaday people indigenous?
47. In 2004 who became the constitutional head of government, the King, in Cambodia?
48. Which musical includes the characters Jean Valjean, Javert, Fantine, Cosette, Éponine, Thénardier, Gavroche, Enjolras, Grantaire and Marius?
49. Where in Scotland does the Falkirk Wheel operate?
50. Where are the Bismarck and Owen Stanley ranges?
51. A group of what is usually called a "parliament" ?
52. Who was Queen Elizabeth the First's principal secretary (a position later known as Secretary of State) and spymaster?
53. What are the first words of the US Declaration of Independence?
54. Olympic gold medallists Natasa Janics and Alfréd Hajós represented which country?
55. The building of historical significance known as the Bastille was in which city?
56. Olympic gold medallists Nedo Nadi, Enrico Fabris, Domenico Fioravanti and Alberto Tomba represented which country?
57. What weather condition can cause a "whiteout" ?
58. Which of these distinguishes Hawaii from other states in the USA?
59. Which European country did not finally lose its territory in India until 1961?
60. Which of these is a game played with small glass balls?
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