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General Knowledge Quiz 310 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is a type of cotton fabric?
2. Which of these is closest to London?
3. Which pantomime is about a boy who discovers a magic lamp?
4. In which series are FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) the investigators of cases involving paranormal phenomena?
5. Which Olympic gold medallist rowed across the Atlantic with UK TV presenter Ben Fogle?
6. Cerro Aconcagua in the Andes, the highest mountain in the Americas and the highest mountain outside Asia, is 112 km (70 miles) from which closest city?
7. Small coloured dots on a squash ball indicate its "bounciness" . Which colour, introduced in 2000, is the international competition standard?
8. Which of these words is not a conjunction?
9. He is an American artist whose work is characterised by astonishing geometrics and distortions, and brilliant deep vivid colours. What is his name?
10. Gynophobia is an abnormal fear of what?
11. On 16 January 1991 all major TV networks in the USA were pre-empted directly after the evening news broadcast to allow for what?
12. What chemical, found in many living organisms, is this compound of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, C5H9N3?
13. What is a cedilla?
14. Which medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal, native to Africa, is the sole representative of the mammalian order Tubulidentata?
15. When the women's 5000 m world record was broken by a 17 year old in 1984 (with a time of 15:01.83), why was the new record not accepted by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF)?
16. What was the nickname of the character played by Jeff Bridges in the 1998 film "The Big Lebowski" ?
17. Who would be expected to use a swizzle stick?
18. What is scabies?
19. Which of these is a unit of measurement of luminous intensity?
20. In Greek mythology, who was the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, murdered by his wife Clytemnestra on his return home from the Trojan War?
21. Where is the British TV series "The English" (2022) set?
22. Richmondtown is in which borough of New York?
23. Which of these titles is applied to someone who is in charge of a prison?
24. What 1956 film, that satirises the U.S. occupation of Japan following World War II, starred Glenn Ford & Marlon Brando?
25. Each team in the Oxford and Cambridge race which takes place near to each Easter on the River Thames is required to have what?
26. In 2005, Dan Wheldon became the first British competitor to win what event in over 30 years?
27. Bacha posh, whereby a family in which there are no sons may have a girl dress in characteristic male clothing and have her hair cut short, occupying a status in which she is treated as neither daughter nor son, is a cultural practice in areas of which country?
28. Which 2003 drama film, named after a painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and directed by Peter Webber, stars Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson & Cillian Murphy?
29. What is one of the unusual features of the 4 mile (over 6 km) long Shanay-timpishka River in Amazonian Peru?
30. In the UK, there is an annual celebration held on the evening of 5 November. What event does it commemorate?
31. What does the "G" in the World Championship CS:GO stand for?
32. What is a word for the heart, liver and lungs of a slaughtered animal?
33. In the lyric "If I were a rich man ..... ", from the musical "Fiddler on the Roof", what describes "were" grammatically?
34. In the southern hemisphere, when does the winter solstice occur?
35. For a proper fraction, the numerator is
36. City Of Dreams was the second casino owned by James Packer to open in which European ex colony?
37. Which of these wines comes from Germany?
38. What is the name of the Moslem prayer that adherents repeat 5 times daily?
39. Which is the style of music, characterised by staccato offbeat rhythms, and owing much to the influence of mento, jazz, ska and rhythm and blues?
40. Who was the second Stuart king on the English throne?
41. To drill the first foot of an oil well, is to what?
42. The agreements reached in the 2015 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change were of particular interest to a number of island nations among them Tuvalu whose average height above sea level is what?
43. Where is the US National Archives, which holds the original documents of the US Constitution and the US Declaration of Independence?
44. What compound in the human body acts as a neurotransmitter and helps to regulate temperature?
45. In what sport are "nock", "draw weight" and "bracer" terms?
46. "Integral" and "differential" are technical terms used in what?
47. What or who is the Mari Lwyd in Welsh folk dance and performance?
48. "The Harry Lime Theme" was a feature of which 1949 film?
49. Which South American country most nearly resembles in shape the overall shape of the South American mainland?
50. Which of these birds is flightless?
51. Which country gained its independence from Australia on 16 September 1975?
52. What is the next in the series 4, 16, 64, 256 .....
53. Who is credited with inventing the gyroscope?
54. In 1971, what was the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars?
55. What instrument is used for measuring relative humidity?
56. A hit song of 1960 by Brian Hyland concerned an itsy bitsy teenie weenie polka dot bikini of what colour?
57. Which tree produces red fruits called "haws" ?
58. Who played Detective John Book in the 1985 film "Witness" ?
59. Who was the director of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The African Queen" ?
60. What is the largest city in the province of British Columbia, Canada?
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