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General Knowledge Quiz 312 (60 MCQs)

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1. Father and son walk to do some fishing while the theme tune is whistled in the opening credits of which popular TV series first broadcast from 1960 to 1968?
2. Competitions for which cup, sometimes called the World Men's Team Championships, for international badminton teams representing nations in the Badminton World Federation, have been held every three years since 1948-1949 and every two years since 1982?
3. What is the term for a two week period?
4. Which of these is NOT a technical manual or aid book of some kind?
5. Which if these statements comes closest to the next number in the sequence 0; 9; 144; 21, 609?
6. In 1935, which city was chosen to replace Livingstone as the capital of the British colony of Northern Rhodesia, and is now the capital of Zambia?
7. While most juries can only provide a verdict of "Guilty" or "Not Guilty", in which country can a jury decide "Not Proven" ?
8. What is the language system known as "ablaut" ?
9. Which Austrian card game uses a 54 card Industrie und Glück deck?
10. Jacques Seguela wrote "Autobiographie Non Autorisée" about Carla Bruni, supermodel-singer, and her most recent lover at the time, which was who?
11. Who did Tom Cruise propose to at the Eiffel Tower in 2005?
12. Which of these was a character in the TV series "Dynasty" ?
13. Burj Al Arab Hotel, built in the shape of a sail, is where?
14. The Western Ghats run down the coast of which country?
15. Myles na gCopaleen and George Knowall are pseudonyms of what Irish novelist, playwright and satirist?
16. What is the first sentence of the book "Nineteen Eighty Four" by George Orwell?
17. Nadya Suleman, a resident of Southern California, made the news early in 2009 for doing what?
18. The peacock is an important part of which faith?
19. What is the name of the obelisk brought from Heliopolis, Egypt, that now stands in London?
20. Who wrote "A Brief History Of Time" and "Black Holes and Baby Universes" ?
21. In the open-source server-side web application framework known as ASP NET, what does the "P" stand for?
22. What substance is Uluru / Ayers Rock in Australia made of?
23. Britain's largest suspension bridge crosses which river?
24. Which Hungarian-born actor acted in films from 1917 to his death in 1956, and is best known for playing the title role in the 1931 film "Dracula" ?
25. What is the world's largest inland body of water?
26. Which of these is the cleaner most likely successfully to decontaminate surfaces exposed to a norovirus?
27. In 1968, who was the first African American woman to be elected to the US Congress?
28. What does "savoir faire" mean?
29. In 1983 British athlete Ayodele (Daley) Thompson simultaneously held Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games titles in what sport?
30. The plot of the 1959 film "Some Like It Hot", starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, is triggered by what event?
31. Which French composer wrote a large number of works including over 90 songs and the opera "Pénélope" ?
32. Who was the last English monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty?
33. What are the bottom-most 3 to 5 fused vertebra of the backbone called?
34. What was the first mission that returned lunar samples from the Moon to Earth?
35. What continent is described as having a Horn?
36. The Jake Gaudaur Veterans' Trophy, presented annually to the Canadian Football League player "who best demonstrates the attributes of Canada's veterans in times of war, peace and military conflict", was first awarded in 2010 to Mike McCullough who played for which team?
37. What holds the records as the world's longest-running science fiction television show?
38. Which one of these films did director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer Stanley Kubrick NOT direct?
39. Which trophy, damaged by Benjamin Peri Nathan with a sledgehammer in March 1997, was restored to its original condition, free of charge, by London silversmiths Garrard & Co., who had made it in 1848?
40. The first Olympic flag, presented to the IOC at the 1920 Olympics by the city of Antwerp, Belgium, was lost until 1977. Where had it been?
41. Which English general medical practitioner is known to have killed at least 218 of his patients, and was caught when he became unexpectedly a beneficiary in the will of Kathleen Grundy?
42. Which US president was in office at the start of the Korean War?
43. Gordon Banks (1937-2019) and Gordon Banks (1958 on) are both notable, on either side of the Atlantic, in what field?
44. What is the technical term for the order to which wasps and ants belong?
45. Who wrote the stage play "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" ?
46. What innovation was introduced to Britain by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1798?
47. If you were watching a game between the Red Sox and the Yankees, what sport would they be playing?
48. In the episode of Coronation Street that aired in Britain on 3 March 2008, who pushed Gail Platt down the stairs, leaving her hospitalised and suffering short term amnesia?
49. Singer-songwriter sensation, New Zealand-born Lorde, who first attracted international attention in 2013 at the age of 16 has a parent who is also celebrated. Who is that, and for what?
50. What does "differential" measure in the mathematical discipline of calculus?
51. Who was the first Chancellor of West Germany from 1949-1963, who retired at age 87?
52. Where was the Battle of Salamis fought in 480 BCE?
53. John F Kennedy's father Joe was US ambassador to which country?
54. What is the subject of "The Georgics", the long 1st century BCE poem by the Roman poet, Virgil?
55. Which venue has hosted the Ryder Cup the most times since 1980?
56. The 1976 Summer Olympics were boycotted by a number of African nations, for what reason?
57. A law prior to 1920 regulating the speed of vehicles on the road in the UK required somebody to do what in addition?
58. What is another name for horizontal roll vortices?
59. Who composed "Air on the G String" ?
60. What word refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India, which are associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism?
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