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General Knowledge Quiz 338 (60 MCQs)

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1. What was the Japanese name for Manchuria after they occupied it in 1931?
2. Who was on the English throne at the time of the "Gunpowder Plot" to blow up the House of Lords?
3. The remains of Pueblo Bonito, a great house built and lived in by Puebloan peoples and central to the Chacoan world from early 9th century to the 12th century, are preserved in Chaco Culture National Historical Park in what area?
4. The award for which Nobel Prize winner was accepted in person by his wife because the winner feared that if he went to Oslo he would not be readmitted to his homeland?
5. Which band got its name (that was adopted by the lead singer as his own) by contacting a spirit using an ouija board?
6. What were Operation Crosstie, Operation Bowline, Operation Mandrel, Operation Emery and Operation Grommet?
7. The mazurka originated in which country?
8. The immensely popular 1959 South African all-black jazz opera/musical "King Kong", was an important early step in the career of which South African singer, songwriter, actress, (and later) United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil rights activist?
9. In 2015 palaeontologists from Edinburgh and Beijing announced the discovery of the fossil of an almost complete feathered and winged, although almost certainly flightless, theropod which is an ancestor of what?
10. Which Pope was elected in 2005?
11. Which of these is a character in "The Tempest" ?
12. When is The Sundance Film Festival, that began in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival, held annually?
13. Which long running British police procedural television series that originated as a one-off drama, entitled "Woodentop" in August 1983 was first broadcast in 1984?
14. Where is the Lula (formerly the Tupi) oil field?
15. What film was based on the book "Q and A" by Vikas Swarup?
16. Relative to the sun in our solar system what does 1.30 parsecs represent?
17. What is the current name of the islands originally called the "Sandwich Islands" ?
18. Which of these became an independent country in 1971?
19. How did Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee die in 1967?
20. What is the area 19th century Europeans called the Barbary Coast known as now?
21. In snooker, what colour ball scores 1 point?
22. What is the relationship between Ukrainians Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko, who dominated the IBF, WBO, WBC and IBO world heavyweight championships from 1999 to 2015?
23. Which of these is not a state of the USA?
24. What is the name of the New Zealand national rugby team?
25. Charlie Chaplin wore his tramp costume for the first time in 1914 in which film?
26. What is the shape of a standard cricket pitch?
27. When Martin Luther sent a scholarly treatise to his Bishop, which later became popularised as nailing his ideas to a church door in Wittenberg, the treatise became known as what?
28. What is the city where the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria meets the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia?
29. What mountains or mountain areas shade the Gobi Desert from rain?
30. What part of Ecuador is completely surrounded by ocean?
31. In February 1984, Egypt, British Virgin Islands, Monaco, Puerto Rico and Senegal participated for the first time in what?
32. What gambling game, requiring only two coins to play, was popular with Australian and New Zealand soldiers in World War II?
33. In the 7th to 9th century, which kingdom of England was between the Thames and the Trent?
34. Pétanque, boules, bocce, bolas criollas are all related games involving what?
35. Where was the trial, which became popularised as the 1956 Treason Trial, held?
36. The Bill of Rights was passed by the Parliament of England in which century?
37. In which country, which was neutral in World War II, was there a revolution which deposed the monarchy in 1910, then a military coup d'état in 1926, followed by a right-wing dictatorship?
38. Which of these was a vertical take-off aircraft that entered service in the RAF in 1969?
39. What is barding for a war horse?
40. The founding of Precept Software in 1995 sparked what in the USA?
41. Where was a peace agreement signed between the FARC guerrillas and the Colombian government on 26 September 2016?
42. How many different people were Prime Minister of New Zealand in the first 100 years after it became a Dominion in 1907?
43. The forces of which country were defeated at the Battle of Marengo in 1800?
44. What was the Mississippi State Penitentiary formerly called?
45. Prolonged deep-sea diving was first made possible in Europe by the invention of a diving bell in what century?
46. What was the name of the live-in cook for Ben, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe Cartwright in a long running TV series?
47. Between 2000 and 2010, how many times had Venus and Serena Williams met in a Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Final?
48. Which of these uses the literary technique of alliteration?
49. Which is a potentially serious disease of cattle, sheep, deer, goats, llamas and alpacas (but not horses)?
50. What publication did Americans DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace, later wealthy philanthropists, start in 1922 shortly after their marriage?
51. What phenomenon was discovered by Frenchman Joseph Fourier in 1824, reliably experimented on by Irishman John Tyndall in 1858, and first reported quantitatively by Swede Svante Arrhenius in 1896?
52. Which country was the first to legalise same-sex marriage as a result of a referendum?
53. What is the name for the phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere?
54. What part of the body produces insulin?
55. Which of these was a slogan for Coca Cola?
56. Who emigrated to the USA in 1842, co-founded a detective agency in Chicago in 1850, and played an influential role in the founding of the US Secret Service?
57. Titan is a moon of which planet?
58. What was the stage name of Ellen Naomi Cohen, who, after being a member of "The Mamas & The Papas", had a successful solo career until she was found dead in London, apparently from a heart attack, after 2 weeks of a sold-out season at the Palladium?
59. What is vexillology?
60. In the early 19th century Madagascar, until it claimed independence in 1960, was part of what country's colonial empire?
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