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General Knowledge Quiz 321 (60 MCQs)

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1. In 1982 the first commercially marketed CD was launched by Phil Ramone of A & R Recording . He was also involved in a number of other activities. Which of these was not one of them?
2. The Year of Revolutions in 1848 began with a revolution in which country?
3. David McTaggart co-founded which organisation?
4. In which decade was Frank Sinatra born?
5. Which of these is novel by Henry Fielding?
6. How are the strings sounded in a spinet?
7. What are the first names of the British comedians Morecambe and Wise?
8. What was the main quarry of the foxhunts which were popular in the UK in the 18th century and later?
9. How many Kings of England were called Henry?
10. Who is the lead singer of the American rock / ska-pop / reggae band "No Doubt", winners of 2 Grammy Awards, which was formed in Anaheim, California, in 1986?
11. The River Don flows 1, 325 miles from near Tula, Russia, to which sea?
12. When Sir Isaac Isaacs was sworn in as Governor-General of Australia in 1931 what specially marked the appointment?
13. In 1908, the winners of the Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning set a world record of 73 hours aloft that would stand until 1995. What nationality were they?
14. Which metal has the highest tensile strength to density ratio?
15. Which country was ruled between 1971 and 1986 by Idi Amin, Milton Obote, General Tito Okello and Yoweri Museveni?
16. What is another name for bilharzia?
17. What is a term for the grinding surface of a tooth?
18. The largest river in China and among the largest in the world, it is variously known over its length as Ulan Moron, Dangqu, Tongtian, Jinsha, Sichuan, Jing and Dajiang, and has been called the Kiang and the Blue River. By what name is it now most often known outside China?
19. Where is the home of kulintang?
20. In which country did the USA provide information to a 1963 coup, against General Abd al-Karim Qasim the then Prime Minister of the country?
21. Which English-born sculptor is best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures, usually depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures, that are pierced or contain hollow spaces?
22. What city was chosen for the 2022 Pokémon World Championships?
23. Which of these is a puzzle frequently found in magazines and newspapers?
24. Which Italian nobel prize winner (1934) wrote novels such as "Mal Gioconda" and switched to writing plays in 1910?
25. In 1679 the French physicist, priest and plant physiologist Edme Mariotte independently discovered a law just previously published by an Anglo-Irish scientist; it is known in English speaking science primarily as what?
26. What is the minimum number of points needed to win a tiebreak in tennis, such as in the Hopman Cup for mixed doubles, on the ATP and WTA tours for doubles and sometimes in USTA league play?
27. Which entrepreneur founded Harvey Films (also known as Harvey Entertainment, The Harvey Entertainment Company or just Harvey) in 1957?
28. What tectonic plate sits underneath the Atlantic Ocean immediately east of the continent of South America?
29. What term is applied to the situation when a woman has more than one husband?
30. When one whole number is divided by another smaller one, anything over is termed the what?
31. Which UK TV series was screened first?
32. What does coprology deal in?
33. In the phrase "Leaving is such sweet sorrow, it's not top of the agenda" what is the grammatical term for the word "leaving" ?
34. Which UK TV series, developed from a radio show, ran from 1988 to 1999 presented by Clive Andersen and later was taken up in the USA and, in 2016, in Australia?
35. Who would use an inkblot or Rorschach Test?
36. Which Scottish biologist and pharmacologist who published many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy, discovered the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and an antibiotic substance from a fungus in 1928?
37. Which of these was an 18th century Scottish philosopher and economist who wrote "Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "The Wealth of Nations" ?
38. What ship, formerly called USS "Phoenix" which saw action in World War II, became the first to be sunk by a nuclear-powered submarine, in 1982?
39. Which infective disease caused by toxins is characterised by the violent and prolonged contraction of skeletal muscle fibres?
40. Among other advances, British surgeon Dr Sampson Gamgee developed what?
41. The fraction of the total incident solar radiation reflected by a planet back to space would be measured as its what?
42. What is the name for the indication that a group of 3 notes are to be performed in the time of 2 of equal value, which is shown by a "3" and a slur placed above or below the group?
43. Which red dwarf star, approximately 4.2 light-years distant in the constellation of Centaurus, is the nearest star to the Sun?
44. What does "Zorro" mean in Spanish?
45. What is the meaning of the word "jihad" ?
46. Radovan Karadzic is associated with genocide between 1992 and 1995 in which country?
47. How many US Presidents have been assassinated by being shot?
48. "The Spanish Tragedie, or Hieronimo is Mad Againe", written in the late 16th century, is a work by which playwright?
49. For which of these is a red cross a symbol?
50. Many of the religious dissenters who sailed to America on the Mayflower in 1620 were known as what?
51. What is the name for the rocks deposited by a glacier after it has passed by?
52. What was the Judgement of Paris in 1976?
53. What is claustrophobia the fear of?
54. Which card game involves 2 teams of 2 players aiming to reach 7 points, with each trick taken above 6 counting as 1 point, using 52 cards, all dealt except the last, which is turned up as trumps?
55. What is a key source of energy in humans?
56. On 10 February 2018, Australian Reverend Kay Goldsworthy became the first what?
57. Which Russian or Russian-American composed "God Bless America" ?
58. From 1970 to 1995, Julie Goodyer played Bet Lynch, a character known for sporting leopard-skin prints and a bleached-blonde beehive hairdo, in which long-running soap opera?
59. What was the eponymous imaginarium in the 2009 film "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" ?
60. During which period did sound recording studios first start up in the US?
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