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General Knowledge Quiz 319 (60 MCQs)

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1. The band "Frankie Goes To Hollywood" released which of these albums?
2. Which of these is not one of Newton's Laws of Motion?
3. What economic theory was originated by Major C H Douglas?
4. What was badly damaged when the ship "Shen Neng I" got into difficulties on 3 April 2010?
5. Several caves in Spain are sites of prehistoric rock paintings. Approximately when were the earliest, line motifs and stencilled hands, believed to have been painted?
6. What event in Spain on 30 July 1749 led to a Royal Proclamation by King Ferdinand VI in October and subsequently to royal intervention by the new Bourbon king, Charles III, in 1765?
7. Which city won the right to host the Centennial Olympic Games over the early favourite, Athens in Greece?
8. With which country does Russia have its shortest international border?
9. David Broome was a successful competitor in what sport in the 1960s and 1970s?
10. Where was the Saffron Revolution?
11. Which of these buildings has a "strangers gallery" ?
12. The game Hare and Hounds is typically played on which shape board?
13. What was the name of the "state" that was never officially admitted into the Union of the USA after delegates from some North Carolina counties declared independence from North Carolina in 1784, and, in 1788, went back to being part of North Carolina?
14. When did the simplified style of samba known as Bossa Nova beat develop?
15. Jonah Lomu is associated with which of these sports?
16. Which description is used for some kinds of rose, mushroom and fern?
17. What are "O mio babbino caro", "Sì, mi chiamano Mimì", "Vissi d'arte", "Der Hölle Rache", "Sempre libera" and "When I am laid in Earth" ?
18. What is the central target of the 2020 Danish TV series "The Investigation" ?
19. Where would one find "Bachmann's bundle" ?
20. Hours after attacking Pearl Harbour in 1941, Japanese forces annexed which USA territory?
21. What is the first name of Capt. W E Johns's fictional flying hero, Biggles?
22. Which countries have dominion in Tierra del Fuego?
23. Who was the British prime minister when all women over 21 got the vote in Britain following the passing of The Equal Franchise Act 1928?
24. What was the occupation of Jules Leotard who popularised one-piece gymwear in the 19th century?
25. Traditionally, a magician pulls what out of a hat?
26. To engage in natation what is needed?
27. Which US horse race for three year-old thoroughbred horses is held on the first Saturday in May, over one and a quarter miles (2 km) at Churchill Downs?
28. Salvador Dali, Max Ernst and Paul Klee are classified in what school of painting?
29. What sea or ocean borders the country of Niger?
30. What country was the first country in Oceania, and fifteenth overall, to legalise same-sex marriage?
31. When did the Benelux Union come into force?
32. What are dibrachs, chorees and spondees?
33. The New Spitalfields Market in Leyton, East London, deals in what?
34. John Wayne played the lead role of whom in the 1958 film "The Conqueror" ?
35. The American TV miniseries "Shogun", based on the book by James Clavell, was set in which country?
36. The natural habitat of penguins is centred where?
37. At which cricket ground, in 1953, did England win the Ashes for the first time since 1933?
38. The Haight Ashbury district, which became the centre of the rise of a drug culture and rock-and-roll lifestyle by the mid '60s, is in which city?
39. Which squash player was unbeaten for over 150 consecutive matches between 1981 and 1986?
40. What is the name for the home for a pet rabbit?
41. Except for a short break from 1492 to 1512, which merchant family effectively ruled Florence from the 13th century to 1737?
42. What name is given to a neuron which fires both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another animal, as though the observer were performing the action?
43. What sort of game is "The Sims" ?
44. The series of cataracts and falls known as the Khone Falls are on which river?
45. The team from which country won the 2014 ICU World Cheerleading Championship?
46. Which 19th century Italian composed over 60 operas, including "L'Elisir d'Amore", "Lucia di Lammermoor" and "Don Pasquale" ?
47. What game is played on a table 9 feet (2.64 m) by 5 feet (1.525 m), 2 foot 6 inches (76 cm) above the floor, divided by a net 6 3/4 inches (15.25 cm) high?
48. Kippers are smoked what?
49. Which of these is a sweet, rum-based cocktail made with hard rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice, that became the official beverage of Puerto Rico in 1978?
50. The Jurassic period is known for the appearance on earth of what?
51. Which of these is a fictional character created by Patricia Cornwell?
52. What is the name for a queen reigning in her own right, with her husband as one of her subjects?
53. Mostar Bridge, completed in 1566, destroyed in 1993 and rebuilt in 2004, stands in which country?
54. What language is the basis of the name of Soweto?
55. Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654), English botanist, physician and astrologer, is particularly well-known for which publication which was strongly resisted by the relevant authorities at the time but has been in print ever since?
56. What field did Dr Kurt Gödel (1906-78), considered one of the top practitioners in this field, work in?
57. Who invented the revolver?
58. Which avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque around 1906, revolutionized European painting and sculpture and inspired related movements in music and literature?
59. In which US state did the siege of the Alamo take place?
60. What organ in the human body does the term amaurosis apply to?
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