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General Knowledge Quiz 313 (60 MCQs)

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1. In 2008 at Beijing, Laura Kay Berg became one of 4 women to have won 4 Olympic medals in what sport, having won 3 golds and 1 silver?
2. Where was Kylie Minogue born?
3. In 1961, orienteering organisations representing 10 European nations founded the International Orienteering Federation (IOF); what does orienteering involve?
4. Typically what is in best supply in the Kalahari?
5. Who wrote "Windswept & Interesting:My Autobiography" ?
6. What fictional character is called Bastinda, Evillene, and Elphaba in various versions of the "Wizard of Oz" stories?
7. In English law, what is the "foreshore" ?
8. Which of these colours is not typically used by a cathode ray tube to divide its signal?
9. In which sport would an athlete deal with something called "off-width" ?
10. With what would one play a kazoo?
11. Which of these teams do not compete in America's National League Baseball?
12. What do Robbie Williams, Pet Shop Boys, Sir Paul McCartney, Oasis, Paul Weller, Bob Geldof, Duran Duran, Tom Jones, Sting, U2 and the Spice Girls have in common?
13. Michael Keaton starred in which film as a spirit who makes a living from scaring people?
14. What is the name of the English law that prevents anyone building so as to completely cut out light from a window that had provided light for at least 20 years?
15. The purse for the winner of the Men's Singles at Wimbledon in 2017 was £2.2 million; what was the purse for the winner of the Women's Singles?
16. What was the life expectancy of someone who contracted the bubonic plague, the most commonly seen form during the Black Death that peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350, which had a mortality rate of thirty to seventy-five percent?
17. Which is the painting known by Italians as "La Gioconda" ?
18. Antoni Stradivari is associated with the design and building of what instrument?
19. On a telephone keypad, which number key also has the letters "mno" ?
20. In what field is "The Meisner Technique" used?
21. What was the first name of Mrs Dalloway, a fictional character created by Virginia Woolf?
22. Members of which family were, at various times, Kings or Emperors of Germany, Austria, Rome, Hungary, Spain and Bohemia between 1273 and 1918?
23. When did the European Space Agency launch its first successful rocket, Ariane I?
24. Where is the Torres del Paine National Park, designated in 1978 as a World Biosphere Reserve?
25. When was the first annual World Championship for "Magic:The Gathering" held?
26. The Hapsburg dynasty originated in which country?
27. Hell's Angels are associated with what type of transport?
28. What French landmark was almost consumed by fire in 2019?
29. In 2009 Iceland underwent its greatest emigrations since 1887, as a result of what?
30. Who designed Britain's first atomic bomb, which was exploded aboard HMS Plym in the Monte Bello Islands in October 1952?
31. Who is the co-director and co-writer of British television shows with Ricky Gervais?
32. Which of these is a lighthouse on a rocky island off the coast of Cork?
33. Which guitarist collaborated with David Bowie on his music projects from 1988 to 1999?
34. What genus of about 70-75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia and North and South America are mostly shrubs 1 to 3 metres tall, though some are small trees, and others are lianas reaching up to 30m by climbing trees?
35. Why might a medical practitioner speak of fomes or fomites with concern or warning?
36. Where is the town of Asbestos?
37. The first Commonwealth Games, then called the British Empire Games, was held where, in 1930?
38. After public outrage over a painting by Goya of a nude woman ("the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art"), he refused to paint clothes on her, and created a new painting of the same woman in the same pose, clothed. The paintings are known as "The Nude ..... '' what and "The Clothed ..... " what?
39. In 2022 gymnast Simone Biles was awarded what?
40. What is the nickname of Nike's company logo?
41. Where is the Klondike River?
42. In which Olympics did the International Olympic Committee (IOC) accept Arts into its programme for competition?
43. What, in joinery terms, distinguishes a dado from a groove?
44. In what body of water does Avery Island, USA, stand?
45. In which year did Spain establish a fort in Alaska, George Washington become president of the USA, France see the beginning of major political and civil upheaval, mutiny happen on HMS Bounty, and "Auld Lang Syne" become popular?
46. What relation was Mary I of England to Elizabeth I?
47. What is the mission of the Kepler Space Observatory launched by NASA in 2009?
48. In 2006 Mark Inglis, a New Zealand mountaineer, successfully climbed Mt Everest; what singled him out from the many who have now achieved this climb?
49. In cooking, what French term is the equivalent of shish kebab, satay, and souvlaki?
50. Who works in "The Oval Office" ?
51. Which of these became a republic in 1792?
52. What did the phrase "trip the light fantastick" mean?
53. "Spondulicks" is another word for what?
54. The peoples who have inhabited the Arctic region from time to time have included the cultures known as Inuit, and which other?
55. John McEnroe ended whose long term role as Wimbledon Champion?
56. On what part of the body is a wimple worn?
57. What is another name for a wild hyacinth?
58. What is commonly referred to as the big toe?
59. In 2004 Swiss chocolatiers, the Barry Callebout Group, started developing which confectionery?
60. Which of these is a film musical in which Mary Tyler Moore and Julie Andrews starred together?
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