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General Knowledge Quiz 316 (60 MCQs)

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1. For a scholar studying in the centres of learning in 15th or 16th century Timbuktu, which of these would be the nearest body of water?
2. Who played gangster Don Logan in the 2000 film "Sexy Beast" ?
3. Which of these is the capital of Egypt?
4. Where is the geographic centre of South America?
5. What government system is in place in Lesotho, an enclaved country in the Republic of South Africa?
6. The third series of which drama was commissioned by the online company Netflix, to stream in October 2016?
7. Who fell out of favour with Queen Elizabeth I over his intrigue with Elizabeth Throgmorton, was imprisoned and eventually beheaded?
8. What award is the equivalent of the Oscars for British industries involved in film, television, video games and forms of animation?
9. The film "Mortal Kombat Legends:Snow Blind" (2022) mainly follows which character?
10. Triathlon has been an Olympic sport since the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Which country has won the most medals in the men's event in the first 3 Olympiads to 2008?
11. Apart from the name's being linked to advertising campaigns, what are gitanes?
12. Where is Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" set?
13. A cornea is found in what part of the body?
14. On a standard dartboard, what is immediately to the right of the number 20?
15. What is blanching?
16. Chelsy Davy has been romantically linked to whom?
17. What is a "carillon" ?
18. The makers of M & Ms refused to allow the sweet to be associated with what 1982 US film, because they believed one of the characters was so ugly that children, who were the film's intended main audience, would be terrified?
19. Which of these phrases describes theft by breaking a shop window?
20. What is a slight fluctuation in pitch caused by the player of a stringed instrument shaking a finger while stopping a string?
21. To grue is to do what?
22. Which of these is a state of the United States of America?
23. What is the technical term for a solution which holds more dissolved material than the medium would normally dissolve in its current conditions?
24. The song "Hey There" is from which musical?
25. Which pop group was formed in the late 1960s by members of the Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds and the Hollies?
26. What lavishly colourful and costumed Andean dance features Saint Michael, the Devil, angels and demons?
27. What nationality was Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel prize?
28. What is a Herdwick?
29. Where did the Spring of Nations, or the Year of Revolutions, happen in 1848?
30. What did Spanish canoeist Jovino González, Spanish cyclist Janet Puiggros Miranda, Swiss cyclist Oscar Camenzind and Irish distance runner Cathal Lombard, all in the 2004 Olympics, have in common with Spanish cyclist Maria Isabel Moreno in the 2008 Olympics?
31. Which word means "like a fox" ?
32. In the English language alphabet, how many consonants are there between the letters "I" and "U" ?
33. On 7 October 2023 Hamas (Palestinian) and other forces raided Israel reportedly killing how many people?
34. This crime and police procedural British TV series, created and written by Jed Mercurio and first broadcast in 2012, had no official input from UK police but was advised anonymously by serving and retired police officers and police blogs. Which is it?
35. Which of these is true about Benjamin Franklin and a term as a US senator?
36. In 1695, John Trevor was forced to stand down as Speaker of the British House of Commons. Who was the next Speaker to be ousted?
37. P B S Pinchback was the first non-white and first person of African American descent to become governor of a US state, serving for 35 days from 9 December 1872, to 13 January 1873. Which state was this?
38. A play by Eugene O'Neill is "A Long ..... what ..... Journey into Night" ?
39. What was the Schmalkaldic League, formed during the mid-16th century?
40. In Greek mythology who was the father of the god Zeus?
41. Which establishment owes much to the offer by Sir Hans Sloane in 1758 for England to purchase his collections?
42. What was the name of the man and his adopted son who were Roman military leaders between 216 BC (the invasion of Italy by Hannibal) and 147 BC ( the destruction of Carthage)?
43. Who were the USA fighting a war against in 1812 when the successful American defence of Fort McHenry in September 1814 inspired the lyrics of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner" ?
44. G. H. Armauer Hansen discovered the cause of what disease in 1873?
45. The Formosan Black Bear is indigenous to where?
46. Which of these is a type of 16th and 17th century drama?
47. Which film, released at the end of 2008, starred Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio?
48. Where is it thought that the ancient dead who were preserved in what are known as the Tarim Mummies lived?
49. Why was an item at the Slimbridge Wetland Centre in the UK, put under round-the-clock guard in 2013?
50. Who painted "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" ?
51. What has been the longest-running comedy in US TV history?
52. Tansu Ciller became the first female Prime Minister of which Muslim country in 1993?
53. Which of these is a book of Rabbinical writings and teachings?
54. With what art form is Frenchman Paul Cézanne associated?
55. What is the road featured in the "Wizard of Oz" ?
56. What island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean, comprising 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3, 500, 000 square kilometres, (1, 351, 000 square miles) was formerly called the Gilbert Islands?
57. Who said that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun?
58. Which of these airlines is based in Ireland?
59. On 15 April 1986, the USA launched a series of air strikes on what country because Ronald Reagan had "irrefutable proof" that it had directed a terrorist bombing in a Berlin discothèque.
60. According to the nursery rhyme, where did Peter Peter pumpkin eater keep his wife?
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