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General Knowledge Quiz 327 (60 MCQs)

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1. The region of Catalunya, or Catalonia, is part of which country?
2. Martin Shaw and Lewis Collins, who died in November 2013, co-starred in which crime action UK TV series?
3. As what character did comic actor and writer Rik Mayall appear in the UK TV programme "Blackadder II" ?
4. In 1957 the inaugural Uber Cup, the most important women's badminton team competition in the world, was won by competitors from which country?
5. What is the next number in the series 1, 4, 9, 16, 25?
6. Who coined the term "Big Bang" to explain the difference between it and his theory of the "steady state" expanding universe?
7. Which of these historical figures is most associated with the year 1558?
8. When King George V proclaimed the Royal Arms of Canada in 1921 and made red and white Canada's official colours, the red came from Saint George's Cross; where did the white come from?
9. The Lufra River and then the Lualaba River into which it flows are major headwaters (by volume) of the Congo River. Where do the rivers arise?
10. In what country were the Battles of the Somme, in 1916 and 1918, fought?
11. Acorns come from which species of tree?
12. Where are the headquarters of the World Curling Federation?
13. What building, erected at Sydenham near London in 1852-54 in 200 acres of grounds and given to the public in 1920, was gutted by fire in 1936 and finally demolished in 1941?
14. What is the place referred to in one of the Smithsonian TV series, "The Nazi Temple of Doom" ?
15. After stints backing Little Richard and the Isley Brothers, who was discovered leading "Jimmy James and the Blue Flames" at the Café Wha? in New York and taken to London on 26 September 1966 to make hit records?
16. When the USSR dissolved in 1991, which Russian territory became an exclave?
17. Which of these was an explorer of Australia who led several expeditions into the interior of the continent, from Sydney and Adelaide?
18. Where did biltong originate?
19. In the Greek pantheon, whose daughter was Panacea (the goddess of universal remedy)?
20. For what situation did the term "cabotage" originate?
21. On 15 May 2002, FIFA announced that which nation would host the Football (soccer) World Cup in 2010?
22. Josephus who lived in the 1st century AD was a military commander and scholar but is now known more for his work as what?
23. Which is a distinguishing feature of Lake Balkash in Kazakhstan, one of the longest lakes in the world?
24. In 1949 the inaugural tournament of the Thomas Cup, the most important men's badminton team competition in the world, was won by competitors from which country?
25. Which place has the longest history of continuous women's suffrage?
26. Which of these is a form of alternative medicine, first proposed by German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, which uses reference books known as "repertories" ?
27. A British expression sometimes used for "goodbye" is "toodle ..... " what?
28. What is the last book of the Christian Bible's New Testament?
29. What is the name for the chemical signals that trigger a natural response in another member of the same species that affect behaviour or physiology?
30. Which mystery, and sometimes sci-fi, UK series screening from November 2001 to June 2003 follows people in six fictional families in a street in Greenwich, UK?
31. The title of the 2021 film "CODA" refers to what?
32. Which of these was a concept album released by The Who?
33. Which of these mountain ranges in North America is the furthest west?
34. Which of these is an opera by Richard Wagner?
35. Snowflake was the name of what albino animal that died in the Barcelona Zoo in 2003?
36. The series ran from 1985 to 1992, during that season won two Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Comedy Series, three Golden Globes for Best Television Series-Musical or Comedy, Emmys for each of its four stars, and continues to rerun. Which was the series?
37. Which of these songs is from "The Sound of Music" ?
38. The Homestake Experiment in the late 1960s was designed to observe what?
39. What do ethnologists call people occupying most of North Africa, after one of Noah's sons who is, according to legend, their ancestor?
40. All or part of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Greece and Turkey are often described as being in what?
41. What is Donald Duck's middle name?
42. What was Gregorian chant or plainchant developed for?
43. In which tennis event finals did Serena Williams notably lose to Naomi Osaka in 2018?
44. What is involved in a course Camarguaise, or course libre?
45. Which of these countries gained independence from France in 1953 and became an independent constitutional monarchy under King Norodom Sihanouk?
46. In a film script, what do the letters EXT mean?
47. Who gave Harry Potter his first kiss?
48. Banksy's 2015 work on the walls of a ruined building in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, depicts what?
49. The island of Alcatraz is closest to which of these cities?
50. To which astronomer and cosmologist is what became known as the "big bang theory", the currently leading cosmological theory as modified by George Gamow, attributed?
51. Why was the 2005 IBSF World Snooker Championship, due to be held in Pakistan, cancelled?
52. What was the official name of the first code of French civil law (published in 1804), given in 1807?
53. What is a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community?
54. Songhai Empire, more than 600 years old and from the 15th to the late 16th centuries one of the largest Islamic empires in history, was where?
55. What is the Latin for "therefore" ?
56. The music of which band finally became available for download from iTunes in November 2010?
57. What is the name for the highly viscous layer of the earth that is about 2, 890 km (1, 800 miles) thick and makes up about 84 percent of Earth's volume?
58. When Lieut Thomas E Selfridge became the first death in a crash of a powered airplane in 1908, who was the pilot?
59. A novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first published in "All-Story Magazine" in October 1912, was "Tarzan of the ..... '' what?
60. Where would you find a Tablehopper?
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