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General Knowledge Quiz 333 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which comic character first appeared in Action Comics #1 in June 1938?
2. How many players are there in a men's lacrosse team?
3. What links French dramatist Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) and actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008)?
4. For what country was the first fund recognised as a Sovereign Wealth Fund established?
5. In Japanese cuisine, which of these are two types of noodle?
6. What term is used for the actress that has the main part in a film or play?
7. The Treaty of Brussels, the precursor to NATO and a basis for WEU, was signed on 17 March 1948 by Belgium, France, the UK, the Netherlands and which other nation?
8. Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Catalunya and Navarre are all autonomous communities of which country?
9. What was the first US Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies, passed in 1890, that still forms the basis for most antitrust litigation by the United States federal government?
10. Vikings, ruling East Slavic peoples in the 9th to the 12th centuries were known as what, which led to the name for which present country?
11. What is the name for the act of murdering of one's own mother?
12. Which of these was a hit record for Boney M in 1976?
13. In October 2010 it was announced that the longest genome (genetic code) of any organism belonged to what?
14. Who wrote the book "Das Kapital" ?
15. The Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, the Uffizi, the Pitti Palace, the Fontana del Nettuno and the Boboli Gardens are in what city?
16. Which city in Italy does the football team which was the 2016/17 Serie A Champion represent?
17. Many major sporting fixtures were not held in 1919 because of what reason?
18. Who starred in the film "Good Morning, Vietnam" (1987)?
19. Which US president was behind "The Indian Removal Act" of 1830, which paved the way for the reluctant and often forced emigration of tens of thousands of American Indians to the West?
20. What is the next in this series:1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude ..... ?
21. Alan Longmuir, Derek Longmuir, Eric Faulkner, Stuart "Woody" Wood and Les McKeown were collectively known as what band from 1974 to 1976?
22. What was the governing body of ancient Rome?
23. Which is the world's most populous country to have a Muslim majority of over 85%?
24. What is the term for the attribution of human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts, (e.g. animals, plants and forces of nature such as winds, the rain or the sun)?
25. According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of Dance?
26. What 1976-9 UK TV series, written by David Nobbs, frequently featured brief footage of a hippopotamus?
27. Beals Conjecture, or the Tijdeman-Zagier conjecture, in number theory grew from investigations in which of these?
28. Who portrays the fictional character Captain Jack Sparrow on film?
29. At the 1st World Rowing Championships held at Lucerne in 1962, the International Federation of Rowing Associations did not recognise countries with similar names. Selection trials from 2 countries were held the day before the championships. Which "country" was this?
30. The Secretaries-General of the United Nations 1946 to 1991 were successively from Norway, Sweden, Myanmar (Burma), Austria, and Peru; which country was next?
31. The tango is a dance originating from which country?
32. Where did the Global United Football Club arrange to take 2 teams of football and entertainment celebrities to play an exhibition game in December 2010?
33. What artificial stretch of water in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens London was made by order of Queen Caroline in 1730?
34. "Fanny and Alexander", a Swedish/French/German co-production classic about a Swedish family in Uppsala released in 1982, was directed by whom?
35. Which of these comes closest to the usually accepted meaning of a piece of theatre?
36. What is a nickname for Australia?
37. What is a dewlap?
38. Under what name was American actress, dancer, and producer Margarita Carmen Cansino known in her celebrated performance in the 1946 film noir "Gilda" ?
39. Where did Horatio Nelson lose his right arm?
40. What is the fate of "Carmen" in Bizet's opera?
41. What has parts to which the terms escapement and tourbillon can apply?
42. Before 1066 when William the Conqueror was crowned, what body counselled the English king?
43. What is a sagittal plane?
44. What group did the UK join in 1973?
45. Which instruments are placed to the conductor's left in a symphony orchestra?
46. Which American novelist wrote over 30 books, including "The Pathfinder", "The Deerslayer" and "The Last of the Mohicans" ?
47. What is the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of vertebrates?
48. Who won an Oscar for directing "Slumdog Millionaire", which also won an Oscar for Best Picture?
49. France has officially been an Empire under two people from which family?
50. Which kingdom, established by King Wickramabahu in the 14th century, repelled invasions by the Portuguese and the Dutch in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and the British in the 19th century, until the signing of a treaty with the British in March 1815?
51. During the Second World War much of the population of Gibraltar was evacuated to where?
52. Which newspaper, established in 1917, expressed the official views of the Soviet government and continued after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
53. In which city was Tempelhof airport?
54. Which of these activities is assisted by having the art of legerdemain?
55. The SS Great Eastern which set sail on 13 July 1866 carrying the second (and the first successful) transatlantic telegraph cable, was under what kind of power?
56. Evel Knievel is mostly associated with which activity?
57. Which US doctor and poet wrote the "Breakfast Table" series, "Over The Teacups" and "Elsie Venner" ?
58. What was the stage name of Brenda Mae Tarpley, an American singer of rockabilly, pop and country music who had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s (a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis) and was best known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry" ?
59. Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" is set in which country?
60. "In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act" and "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind" is ascribed to which novelist and critic?
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