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General Knowledge Quiz 325 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who is the only NBA player to score 100 points?
2. How did the outstanding soldier, comrade in arms of Joan of Arc, knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, Gilles de Rais (1405-1440) die?
3. At the southern end of the Paraguaná peninsula in Venezuela lies which UNESCO World Heritage site?
4. Where is Lebanon?
5. What is not mentioned in George and Ira Gershwin's song "Summertime" ?
6. Who was the first Republican president of the USA?
7. Which of these is the fear of fire?
8. What is the last in the series that begins:St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Gallup (New Mexico), Flagstaff (Arizona)?
9. In statistics, what term is applied to techniques for modeling and analysing several variables to understand how the typical value of the dependent variable changes when one of the independent variables is varied, and the other variables are fixed?
10. Which of these names is most associated with scientific discoveries?
11. Andrew Clutterbuck has played lead in two acclaimed TV series in the UK and the USA which deal in supernatural phenomena, under what name?
12. Which of these games is played in 81 squares?
13. Which animal can, after reaching full maturity, revert completely to sexual immaturity and begin again, thereby being technically capable of immortality?
14. Six "Brandenburg Concertos" were written by which composer?
15. Who was "the maid of Orleans" ?
16. Which of these venues is purpose built for cycling?
17. In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" for no runs on the second ball they face?
18. If you have a die which of these would you be equipped (partly) to play?
19. What is the main feature of the design of a "Riparium" ?
20. When was the current world record in athletics for the women's 200 metres set?
21. What was the fate of Desdemona in Verdi's opera "Otello" ?
22. Antonia Robinson and Anna Valentine, London designers who work under the name Robinson Valentine, designed a cream-coloured dress and coat worn by whom at her wedding to Prince Charles on 9 April 2005?
23. What is the longest named river in North America, which runs from Montana to near St Louis, Missouri?
24. What is one of the flavours of the Sienese dessert known as ricciarelli?
25. In 2020 Roberto Vega Ortiz and Theresa Knudson founded the critically acclaimed group known as Ballet22, whose performances can include what?
26. In French cuisine how was an ortolan killed, when it was still legal to cook and sell them?
27. What city was the sewerage system built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette in the late 19th century designed to serve?
28. What is the name for the displacement at, or height of, each crest of a sound wave?
29. What does the "E" stand for in "UEFA" ?
30. What was the first name of Doctor Barnardo?
31. What is the maximum number of points that can be scored from a single shot in basketball?
32. What is a name for the strong prevailing westerly winds in the southern hemisphere, which typically blow through the strait between mainland Australia and its island of Tasmania?
33. What sign of the zodiac is represented by fish?
34. The fabled "Society for the Prevention of an Unwholesome Diet" was described as a 18th century activist group dedicated to keeping what out of Britain?
35. Balsamic vinegar is traditionally made from fermented what?
36. Where is the submarine Agulhas Plateau?
37. Ilmenite is the most commercially important ore of what element?
38. What is or are Eton Fives, first known in the late 19th century?
39. Who was the first serving U.S. President to survive being shot in an assassination attempt?
40. Which painter, who was born in Paris, France in 1848 and died in 1903 at Atuona, Hiva 'Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, had lived at various times in Lima (Peru), Orléans (France), Copenhagen (Denmark), Panama, Saint Pierre (Martinique), Pont-Aven (France), Arles (France), Mataiea Village (Tahiti), Punaauia (Tahiti)?
41. Where would "SCRAM" be used?
42. Which of these novelists was born in Sri Lanka?
43. When Queen Elizabeth II, head of the Commonwealth, opened the 2002 Commonwealth Games in July in Manchester, UK, what was she also celebrating?
44. Which of these animals has the longest average life span?
45. Who wrote the musical "Give My Regards To Broadstreet" ?
46. What is the last element, and the one with highest atomic number, so far identified?
47. Which of these is a type of dinosaur whose fossils were first discovered in 1877 by S. W. Williston?
48. In Britain, when was the Football Association formed to draw up the rules of Association Football (soccer)?
49. What brand of beer is popular in the "Simpsons" ?
50. What is a "verso" in a book?
51. What Roman road in England linked Exeter in South West England to Lincoln in the East Midlands, via Ilchester, Bath, Cirencester and Leicester?
52. Which of these is a French woodwind reed instrument whose design originates in the early Baroque period in France, with a sound that is similar in sound to an oversize oboe?
53. 17th century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully was celebrated for which of these?
54. Which company declared bankruptcy in 2001 despite winning the title of America's most innovative company annually from 1996 to 2001?
55. Who wrote and performed the song "Rehab" that won the 2007 Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song, and Grammy Awards in 2008 for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance?
56. Who was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
57. In 1997 Bougainville gained autonomy within Papua New Guinea, after negotiations brokered by what country?
58. Which of these words best describes Wales?
59. An imam is an authority figure in which religion?
60. The American Civil War was fought in which decade?
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