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General Knowledge Quiz 317 (60 MCQs)

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1. Where do the waters of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet?
2. From which country's language is it most likely that the word "curry" comes?
3. Which of these Australian cities calls itself the "City of Churches" ?
4. Where was the first IOC-run Olympics held in the 21st century?
5. At the 1988 Olympics, in a split decision, South Korean boxer Park Si-Hun beat American Roy Jones, Jr., though Jones landed 86 punches to Park's 32 and a judge admitted the decision was a mistake. All 3 judges voting against Jones were suspended. What was the final outcome?
6. What natural process creates Lichtenberg figures?
7. What is the name of the geochemical component that has no known terrestrial counterpart which was discovered in The Genesis Rock retrieved during the Apollo 15 mission?
8. How did the Russian physicist and politician, Boris Nemtsov, die in February 2015?
9. The "Three Laws of Motion" are named after which scientist who published them in 1687?
10. Which of these is an article that is made for use in a chemistry laboratory?
11. What was Heath Ledger's final performance on film?
12. In the 2009 British Open golf tournament, Stewart Cink and Tom Watson had to play how many extra holes to decide the winner?
13. Which of these means "at a steady, dignified pace" ?
14. What was the name of the security organisation that operated in East Germany during the Cold War?
15. Where is Palenque de San Basilio, declared by UNESCO In 2005 a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity?
16. Who won three long distance races including the marathon at the Olympic Games held at Helsinki in 1952?
17. What makes it necessary to drive through Alabama to take the shortest route from Miami, Florida to Houston, Texas?
18. The UK TV series, "All Creatures Great and Small", concerned what area of activity?
19. In snooker, what coloured ball scores 6 points?
20. Which lies closest to the thousands of kilometres-long East African Rift?
21. Which of these is an activity that involves jumping with a parachute?
22. Which of these was an occupation of Phoebe Buffay in the TV series "Friends" ?
23. Bloody Sunday or Red Sunday January 1905 was a massacre where?
24. Which club won the 1992-1993 UEFA Champions League, the first since being rebranded from the European Champion Clubs' Cup?
25. James A Michener wrote the stories upon which musical was based?
26. In England, in the first half of the twentieth century, a "vesta" was a common term for a type of what?
27. From 1942 to 1945, the US Office of War Information revised or discarded any film scripts they considered did what?
28. Which least means "wick" ?
29. Which of these is most likely to contain lactose?
30. Who, in the 19th century, was commissioned by King Ludwig II of Bavaria to complete his "Ring Cycle" ?
31. Park Jae-sang, who was well-known in the Korean music scene, became internationally known in 2012 under what name?
32. What is the official news publication of the Salvation Army, the first edition of which was printed in December 1879 in London, England, and the first US edition in January 1881 in St. Louis, Missouri?
33. Which musical term denotes a vocal slide between two pitches?
34. In 1920 the Royal Northwest Mounted Police and the Dominion Police were amalgamated into what force?
35. Where would you usually expect to find a neum?
36. Which country occupies the islands called Luzon, Panay, Negros, Cebu, Mindanao, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi?
37. What Greek mythological female monster has the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the rear of a dragon?
38. What or who is the Younger Dryas?
39. What is a quid pro quo?
40. For what instrument or instruments was Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 work "Pictures at an Exhibition" composed?
41. Until 2022 the only boycott of a Winter Olympics was at which Games?
42. Which of these, a New Zealander, was a 1962 Nobel Prize winner for work on the structure of DNA?
43. In March 2007 Steven Bochco's 44-episode "Café Confidential" was launched; what did the episodes consist of?
44. In golf, what is the term for "two strokes under par" ?
45. The economic treaty signed in 1975 (revised 1993) by communities known as ECOWAS involves states from where?
46. In 1916 he started recording and arranging dozens, if not hundreds, of music rolls, then composing via the 1917 ragtime "Rialto Ripples", "Swanee" (1919), "Rhapsody in Blue", "Fascinating Rhythm", "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (1924), and in 1935 which of these?
47. The island of Borneo is divided, in terms of government, between Indonesia, Malaysia and what other country?
48. Which vehicle maker has marketed models called Transit, KA, Focus, Fiesta, Laser and Falcon?
49. Which British organisation, started in 1939 under Basil Dean and disbanded in 1946, represented the mobilisation of the entertainment industry?
50. In May 2021, an ultra-conservative group previously driven from power walked back into de facto control of which country?
51. Where is the Sultanate of Brunei, a country which regained its independence from the UK on 1 January 1984?
52. Edwin Budding invented a tool in 1827 in Thrupp, just outside Stroud in Gloucestershire in the UK which in one of its current forms is used throughout gardens, parks, and sports grounds worldwide. What was it?
53. What does patrology mean?
54. In Arthurian legend, Sir Gawain took on the mission to behead whom?
55. How is an ice hockey puck prepared for a game?
56. Which of these films is not set in China?
57. Which of these is an English novelist?
58. What is the mountain range in Central Asia west of the Himalayas, the highest point of which is Tirach Mir?
59. When singer, songwriter and actor Ozzy Osbourne became the subject of worldwide headlines in March 1981 by biting the head off a live dove, where was he?
60. The village of Zermatt is close to what geographical feature?
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