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General Knowledge Quiz 34 (60 MCQs)

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1. The cleric Einhard (c.770-840) wrote a ground-breaking and much copied biography of which figure?
2. Who took the lead role in the 2014 film "The Imitation Game" ?
3. What is the name for an enthusiast for the TV series "Star Trek" ?
4. Thailand is on what continent?
5. What religion commonly identifies a fish as its symbol?
6. In November 1903, Panama declared its independence from which country to enable a treaty to be signed with the USA?
7. Which mythological lumberjack, usually believed to be a giant, was first documented in the work of US journalist James MacGillivray in 1910?
8. What was the real name of El Cid, a Spanish national hero?
9. On which planet is Olympus Mons?
10. Which of these is a bird?
11. What is the family name of the brothers, both world champion boxers, both the holders of a PhD in sports science, one also a politician and the mayor (from 2014) of Kyiv, Ukraine?
12. What was the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, first isolated on 19 October 1943 by Albert Schatz, a graduate student, in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University?
13. The wettest and greenest part of Africa lies roughly between the Tropic of Capricorn and which latitude?
14. Croatia won their first ever Olympic gold in Atlanta in 1996 in which event?
15. Which of these hats is traditionally made from straw?
16. What temperature scale is referenced to absolute zero (i.e. where there is the theoretical absence of all thermal energy)?
17. What was the principle laid down in Adam Smith's "Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" published in 1776?
18. When and where was a standardised time system first used?
19. Who is Norman Cook better known as?
20. The Irving Berlin song "White Christmas" was sung first by Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds in the film "Holiday Inn" in what year?
21. "Things to do before you die" was the subject of which 2007 film?
22. What do the three horse races known as "The Run for ..... ", variously, " ..... the Roses", " ..... the Black-Eyed Susans" , and " ..... the Carnations" constitute?
23. In which country is the La Quebrada cliff and the Acapulco Bay at its foot?
24. What are carpels?
25. "The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa", a sculptural group in white marble set in an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, was designed and completed by whom?
26. The object of which card game is to make, for example, pairs, sequences, and 15 and 31 points, where scores are marked by means of pegs in a board?
27. What does Fresnel's equation describe?
28. Which country won the Women's Rugby Super Series 2016?
29. If Christmas Eve falls on a Monday, what day will New Year's Day be?
30. In the British series of "The Office", the character of Gareth is played by which actor?
31. What is next in the series:Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Brasilia, Cayenne ..... ?
32. Since 1957, competitions in what sport are governed by FIL?
33. Which of these links the hauntingly catastrophic events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 with work on decoding genomes?
34. Examples of which species live in fresh water, on dry land, up trees, underground, everywhere from the tropics to the sub-arctic, and in some cases are toxic?
35. What would you use to neutralise an acid?
36. What event, devised by Jennifer McCreight, took place on 26 April 2010 in response to reports that Hojatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi, Friday Prayer Leader for Tehran in Iran, had blamed earthquakes on women who dress immodestly?
37. Which of these is a square-mouthed estuary on the northwest edge of East Anglia, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire on the east coast of England?
38. What does "feng shui" mean literally?
39. What was the first satellite put into orbit by the USA?
40. Which peninsula has the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west and the Black Sea to the north, and is separated from Europe by the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus?
41. Which Irish playwright was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance by the French government for his efforts in fighting the German occupation as part of the French resistance in World War II?
42. Which was the last drama film to feature the work of veteran American actor and comedian Zero Mostel?
43. The Malvaceae family of plants not only includes marshmallows, the ancient source of a popular herbal sweet, but also ..... ?
44. Where is The Bridge of Sighs?
45. The unit of electrical resistance was named after whom?
46. Which were the last Olympic Games in which East Germany took part as a country?
47. In which of these places is tundra most likely to be found?
48. Chaminda Vaas bowled a hat trick for Sri Lanka in his first 3 deliveries against Bangladesh in which Cricket World Cup?
49. What convex three-dimensional homogeneous body which, when resting on a flat surface, has just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium?
50. Up to 1974, the title of "Negus" was used for the traditional rulers of what country?
51. What is NASA's craft called Ingenuity?
52. The Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt is a statue of a reclining mythical creature with a lion's body and the head of a what?
53. Ira Gershwin, the lyricist for most of George Gershwin's songs, was what relation to George?
54. What is a synonym for the English word "nick" ?
55. Whom did the Lady of Shalott, in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1832 poem, see in her mirror which made her break her enchantment and bring down the curse from which she died?
56. As a crude population measure of obesity, what value of body mass index is considered to show obesity?
57. Miami, Florida, sits near the southernmost point of what land form?
58. The three countries which border the Gulf of Aden are Yemen, Djibouti, and ..... ?
59. Which of these is the closest translation from Hebrew of the word "Rabbi" ?
60. What name is given to the programme of baseball and softball competitions organised for people aged 5 to 18 in the USA?
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