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General Knowledge Quiz 331 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the opening line of "Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke?
2. The early use of the new technology of the wireless telegram helped British police to capture whom on 31 July 1910?
3. What was called "dephlogisticated air" by Joseph Priestley when he isolated it in 1774?
4. What is a British comic strip character created by Reg Smythe, first published in August 1957, now written by Roger Mahoney (artist) and Roger Kettle (writer)?
5. Which 2010 British film directed by Hideo Nakata is about five teenagers who meet on the Internet and mutually escalate their worst impulses?
6. Since the 17th century the name Aubusson has been particularly associated with what?
7. When would one use an auger?
8. Tennis player, Naomi Osaka, started playing in but then withdrew from which major tennis tournament citing mental health issues?
9. Cloth used to be measured in what?
10. What is the official language of New Caledonia
11. What nationality is the cinematographer Michael Seresin, who has worked on many films from Bugsy Malone (1976), Angela's Ashes (1999), The Life of David Gale (2003), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), to War of the Planet of the Apes (2017)?
12. In the English nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock", what ran up the clock?
13. What is the name of the small village near Calcutta where the first hollow-nosed rifle bullets were made?
14. What was the code name for the German invasion of Russia in World War II?
15. Which object in the Earth's solar system is the reason, apart from the Earth itself, for the spring and autumn equinoxes?
16. What was invented by Elias Howe in 1846 and improved by Isaac Merritt Singer?
17. When did the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) first lay down the laws of cricket?
18. The last beheading after death carried out in Britain (which was part of the penalty of "hanging, drawing and quartering"), followed conviction for treason of whom?
19. What was Operation Barbarossa in 1941 during World War II?
20. Who inspired Louise Erdrich's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Night Watchman" (2020)?
21. Dr Kay Scarpetta was invented by which author?
22. Who is the last person to die on stage in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" ?
23. For administrative purposes, France is subdivided into 100 areas which are called ..... what?
24. Of these long-established and still active film studios-Ealing, Gaumont, Nordisk Film, Paramount and Nikkatsu-which was the first to produce films for the public?
25. What is an Italianate resort village on the coast of Snowdonia in Wales, near Penrhyndeudraeth, two miles southeast of Porthmadog?
26. What is one of the fictional languages spoken by the Elves in the fantasy works of J R R Tolkien?
27. Egg and spoon races were staged as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II in 2012. When was the earliest recorded reference in the Oxford English Dictionary to an egg and spoon race?
28. K. d. lang is best known in what occupation?
29. According to the English nursery rhyme, what clothes was Wee Willie Winkie wearing when he ran through the town?
30. The song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" was famously performed by Marilyn Monroe in which 1953 film?
31. On May 21, 2009, Apa Sherpa set a new record for the most ascents of Mt Everest. How many times had he reached the top?
32. How does a scorpion produce its young?
33. Copacabana Beach is close to which city?
34. The flag of which of these countries is not red, white and blue?
35. Which was the sole supplier of tires to Formula One racing cars for the 2007 to 2010 seasons?
36. Who painted "Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer", which sold at auction for $ US135 million in 2006?
37. Which of these is recognised as an astronomer?
38. What is the description "trochaic" usually applied to?
39. Carl Stotz began an organisation in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1939 to promote what sport to youth?
40. Which British monarch was the first to celebrate a diamond jubilee?
41. Where are the Huygens Gap and the Maxwell Gap?
42. The revival of learning in the West during the 8th and 9th centuries of the reign of Charlemagne and his successors Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald is referred to as what?
43. Which of these was on the German Reich's first list of "undesired" musical works in 1939?
44. If someone is said to have "kissed the Blarney Stone" what qualities are they being described as having?
45. How did US president John F Kennedy die?
46. On 7 January 2006, Elliot John Crosby became the youngest bowler in Britain to achieve what in a sanctioned ten-pin bowling competition?
47. What is the name for the act of murdering of one's own sister?
48. Which British body exercises supreme legal decision in international, constitutional, civil or criminal cases, if requested, from more than 50 countries?
49. When Europeans first came to New Zealand, Māori told them that they themselves had come from where?
50. Which is the highest mountain in Asia, and the world?
51. When did the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) introduce its first across-sport Classification Code to "harmonise policies and procedures and set principles" ?
52. By what name was British author and humourist Sir P.G.Wodehouse known to friends and family?
53. What is or are the principal element(s), apart from carbon and hydrogen, in mustard gas?
54. In 1453, the Ottomans used a cannon called "the Great Turkish Bombard", which required an operating crew of 200 men and 70 oxen, and 10, 000 men to transport it, during their siege of which city?
55. What is the capital of Turkiye and the country's second largest city?
56. Which is the closest synonym to "gavage" ?
57. What is the highest peak in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres?
58. Where were the first modern Olympic Games held, from 6 to 15 April 1896?
59. Escamillo, a bullfighter, is a character in which opera?
60. The term lusophone relates to which language?
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