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General Knowledge Quiz 335 (60 MCQs)

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1. The chemical messenger that transports signals from one cell to another, called phytohormone in plants, is called what in animals?
2. What is the name of the Jewish New Year festival?
3. What does the "U" stand for in "UEFA" ?
4. Which piece of music was composed by Tchaikovsky to commemorate the defeat of Napoleon I?
5. Who created the comic strip "The Far Side" ?
6. In the early 1960s, Albert DeSalvo was given what nickname by the media?
7. Which of these was an 18th century English furniture maker?
8. Which of these countries has land lying on the equator?
9. In October 2018 a tomos was signed, and then formalised three months later in Istanbul, to do what?
10. Who identified and named alpha, beta and gamma radiation?
11. The tiger is native to which continent?
12. When bidding in Auction Bridge, what suit has the highest value below "No trumps" ?
13. Which city, on the River Arno, is the capital of the region of Tuscany?
14. Which of these is a form of textile art, woven on a vertical loom?
15. Which national leader's 3 wives were Aurelia Tizón (married 1929) and Eva Duarte (married 1945) who both died of cancer, and Isabel Martínez (married 1961)?
16. Which of these is an ape that occurs in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia and north to southern China, including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java, and differs from great apes in being smaller and pair-bonded, in not making nests, and in certain anatomical details in which it more closely resembles a monkey than great apes do?
17. Which play's characters comprise two married couples called Honey and Nick, and Martha and George?
18. The ports of Astrakhan and Baku are on which body of water?
19. What was invented in the 1940s by Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, who was building magnetrons for radar sets?
20. Which Indian citizen won a Nobel Prize in 1979?
21. A character from the films "Beetlejuice" and one in several in the Harry Potter series have names which suggest stars from which constellation?
22. What is the title of Luxembourg's Head of State?
23. Which car company, in 1986, commissioned "Cars", a series of artworks to track the evolution of its designs, from Andy Warhol?
24. In what field is or was the art of Ralph Steadman, Thomas Nast, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson usually expressed?
25. In surnames, e.g. Fitzwilliam, FitzGerald, Fitzherbert & Fitzhenry, what does "Fitz-" mean?
26. What island group may be described as a triangle with its corners at Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island, including the island groups Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Niue?
27. What is a characteristic of the moon, Phoebe?
28. The Rance Barrage is the first example of what?
29. Tijuana and San Diego are on either side of what?
30. Maynard James Keenan is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and winemaker, known as the singer and primary lyricist of several rock bands. Which is NOT one of those bands?
31. Which of these is a small, air-operated tool that sprays various media including ink and dye, and most often paint, by a process of nebulization?
32. How did the Great Exhibition of 1851 in the Crystal Palace in the UK differ from the French Industrial Exposition of 1844 which is said to have inspired it?
33. The first championship known as the Championship of the Internationale Eislauf-Vereingung, held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1896 was a competition in what discipline?
34. "The course of true love never did run smooth" is a line from which play?
35. What fictional village was the setting for a 1963 novel by Spike Milligan?
36. Which is part of a drilling tool?
37. What word is used to describe a grotesque stone carving with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building?
38. What is the main characteristic of twill cloth?
39. Which country became independent from imperial China in 938 AD in the Battle of Bạch Đằng River?
40. Which of these is not a lifeline in the standard format of the TV game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" ?
41. In the USA between 1852 and 1883, who were Reelfoot Williams, Tom Bell, Rattlesnake Dick and Charles Bolles (a.k.a. "Black Bart")?
42. The 2019 film "Joker", directed and co-written by Todd Philips, is a prequel to what series of films?
43. New York City is due south of which of these cities?
44. What album did American rapper Tupac Shakur, or 2Pac, release under the pseudonym Makaveli?
45. Who released the album "Rockferry" in 2008, that contained the singles "Mercy", "Warwick Avenue" and "Rain on Your Parade" ?
46. Which of these leads to Westminster Abbey in London?
47. In astronomy, what is the next letter in the sequence O, B, A, F, G, K .....
48. The Nazca Plate, part of the earth's lithosphere, lies under which ocean?
49. Which of these, whose coat is more or less constant in colour, is native to South America?
50. Which of these fashion designers was born in the USA?
51. In 1995, Steffi Graf became the only tennis player to have won each of the four grand slam events how many times?
52. In his voyage west for Spain in 1492 what did Christopher Columbus hope to discover?
53. Who invented infinitesimal calculus independently of Newton (and his notation has been in general use since then), invented the binary system, and promoted his philosophy of "optimism", that the universe is the best possible that God could have made?
54. Where did 15 ships (German, American, British, Bulgarian, Swedish and Polish) spend years immobilised mid-voyage?
55. In mathematics, what is the name for the following sequence of numbers:0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765 .....
56. Which of these authors is known for writing Westerns?
57. To foil something, in the sense of stopping or frustrating it, comes from an old French word and in turn from a Latin word denoting what activity?
58. Which of these is the title of a well-known musical?
59. What word describes a person who sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons and ribbons, and in the USA is another term for a men's outfitter?
60. Which of these is a 2000 film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, who portrays a FedEx employee who is stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes on a flight over the South Pacific?
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