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General Knowledge Quiz 311 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who was exiled to Siberia three times, was active in the plot that overthrew Kerensky in 1917, and became Secretary of the Russian Communist Party?
2. Who wrote "Auld Lang Syne" in 1789?
3. What are muslin and chenille?
4. Do-si-do is a term used in what activity?
5. What does an ichthyologist study?
6. What is the name for a rotating rod with oblong lobes sticking out of it, that is fitted in a car's engine block?
7. Geologically speaking, where would you go to stand on land at the southernmost point of the North American continental plate?
8. After gaining independence from the UK in 1970 the Republic of Fiji was a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. How many years did that last?
9. Who or what are the competitors in the main race run every May between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado, USA?
10. What is haloumi?
11. What 21, 196 km (13, 171 mi) long feature has been built, dismantled, ignored, re-built, breached, abandoned and is currently serving mainly as a largely ruined tourist attraction?
12. Which 1946 song did Ethel Merman introduce, which was almost immediately covered by Betty Hutton and Dinah Shore?
13. A "bodice ripper" is a type of what?
14. What is the symbol for a 60th wedding anniversary?
15. What is the nickname of the Australia national rugby league team?
16. What is the name of mid-ocean ridge which separates much of north America from Africa and Europe?
17. Vishnu and Shiva are gods in which religion?
18. In the TV series "Red Dwarf", Dave Lister, the one surviving human woken from suspended animation 3 m years after his mining space ship's radiation catastrophe, had what job on the ship?
19. In 1984 Sir Paul McCartney from Wings and The Beatles wrote, produced and starred in a film; what was it called?
20. What was the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" ?
21. From which game do we get the expression "On a roll" ?
22. What is the greatest distance between a capital and one of its territories?
23. What sign of the zodiac is represented by a crab?
24. What name is given to a spasm of the diaphragm muscle caused by indigestion, intoxication or some forms of pleurisy?
25. The flower heads of which of these are commonly eaten?
26. Who won gold for the individual pursuit at the Track Cycling World Championships in 2009?
27. Which military decoration is awarded to recognize people "being wounded or killed in any action against an enemy of the United States or as a result of an act of any such enemy or opposing armed forces" ?
28. Which video game, released in 2009, is based on a "summoner" and a "champion", and aims to destroy a "Nexus" ?
29. Who wrote the text on which the musical "Cats" was based?
30. On 30 November 2021 what country, with the blessing of its previous ruler, became a republic?
31. What is the subject of the song "Breakin' Dishes", recorded by Rihanna and released on her 2007 album "Good Girl Gone Bad" ?
32. What do the pika who live on the high dry cold Tibetan plains most closely resemble?
33. What large peninsula lies between Iran in Asia, and Egypt and Sudan in Africa?
34. It has been a boy's name, is usually a girl's name, and is well known as the name of Peter Pan's friend in a J.M. Barrie play. What is it?
35. What do the terms lordosis and kyphosis refer to?
36. In August 2009, Britain's largest jewel robbery took place at which store?
37. What country in North Africa, bordered by Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco and the Mediterranean Sea, is the largest country on the Mediterranean, on the African continent and in the Arab world?
38. In the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson which celebrated the charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, what kind of enemy fire surrounded the brigade?
39. Which 19th century Russian's compositions include 8 operas, the ballets "Swan Lake", "The Nutcracker" and "The Sleeping Beauty", 6 symphonies and 3 piano concertos?
40. Why were the 1940 and 1944 Olympic Games not held?
41. Where would you observe the föhn effect?
42. In 2016 the Philippines elected its 16th President, on a platform which included what?
43. What are the so-called STEM subjects in education?
44. What is the name of the process by which plants obtain carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water?
45. When did the Nazca culture flourish?
46. Who, with Bob Geldof, founded the supergroup "Band Aid" in 1984 to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia and then organised the charity super-concert "Live Aid" in 1985 and the "Live 8" concerts in 2005?
47. Where was the decisive battle on 24 June 1314 where Robert Bruce defeated Edward II's army and secured the independence of Scotland at that time?
48. Robert de Vere was an advisor and companion to which English king?
49. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Arash Miresmaeili, an Iranian judoka, did not compete in a match against an Israeli. Which of these did not result?
50. Which spaceship eventually transports WALL-E and EVE back to Earth, triggering its restoration, in Pixar's 2008 sci-fi computer-animated film "WALL-E" ?
51. What disaster occurred in Ireland in 1845?
52. What is one of the distinguishing features of a hoatzin?
53. Where was the first McDonalds outlet opened east of the Mississippi River in 1955?
54. What is an important Jewish religious site located in the Old City of Jerusalem which dates from the end of the Second Temple period, being constructed around 19 BCE by Herod the Great?
55. Charles Lindbergh's first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 was between which two cities?
56. Ivy, a New York dominatrix with a barely suppressed OCD problem, appears in the web series "Neurotica" showcased by which organisation?
57. At the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich, which 16-year-old Soviet gymnast won three gold medals?
58. What is the name for a straight line drawn from the centre of a circle to the circumference?
59. Where is the mouth of the Yangtze River?
60. Which long-running British TV series which began as a one-off drama entitled "Woodentop" revolves around the lives of policemen stationed at Sun Hill?
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