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General Knowledge Quiz 340 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the name of the waterway that connects the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean via Loch Ness?
2. Which of these British horse races is run earliest in the year?
3. What is the positive male principle in Taoist philosophy?
4. What did blues singer B.B. King call his guitar?
5. The film "The Gospel of Us", record label Feral Records, the Raindance Film Festival, the Royal Mail's Mythical Creatures stamps, the children's book "Crazy Hair", and "The Fat Duck Cookbook" have what in common?
6. Where are the literary characters of Panurge and the god Gaster found?
7. Tophat and steelbone are types of what?
8. Which US president was a swimming instructor and lifeguard in Illinois?
9. Which province of Ireland comprises the counties of Clare, Kerry, Cork, Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford?
10. What does the "D" stand for in "LED" ?
11. The Fox Islands, Islands of Four Mountains, Andreanof Islands, Rat Islands, Buldir Island, Commander Islands and Near Islands are all part of which island chain?
12. In Virgil's "Aeneid" the central character, Aeneas, starts his journeys after doing what?
13. The film "La Vie en Rose" ("La Môme") in 2007 followed the life of which French artist?
14. The first flag for the USA had how many stars on it?
15. Who was the leader of 617 Squadron, formed during World War II and known as the Dambusters?
16. What is the name of the result of the census of England and Wales carried out under the instructions of William I in 1085-6?
17. What links the cities of Quito and Lima?
18. When was the first US invasion in the 21st century?
19. In the nursery rhyme beginning "Hey Diddle Diddle", who ran away with the spoon?
20. What does the word "dissemble" mean?
21. What preparation, consisting mainly of citron, orange, bergamot, neroli and rosemary, was first prepared by Johann Maria Farina soon after 1700?
22. Who is the main character in "Blondie", a comic strip which appeared around 1933, who was originally heir to a fortune but was disowned when he married a flapper, Blondie Boopadoop?
23. Grounation Day (April 21) and Coronation Day (November 2) are important holy days in which religion?
24. What were Operation Ranger, Operation Buster-Jangle, Operation Tumbler-Snapper, Operation Upshot-Knothole and Operation Teapot?
25. When were England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland termed a Commonwealth?
26. What name is given to the group of elements that includes fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine?
27. Where are tatami used?
28. Who lived with his father (Howard), his mother (Marion), and his sister Joanie and had friends called Potsie Weber, Ralph Malph and Arthur Fonzarelli?
29. When King George II of Great Britain and Ireland died in 1760, who succeeded him?
30. At midnight on 30 June 2012 a change was made to a system which affected all countries. What was it?
31. Where are you said to be being led when you are deceived?
32. Where was the men's World Cup 2022 held?
33. Which of the following countries was not one of Israel's opponents in the Six Day War in June 1967?
34. Where is the pororoca found?
35. What river runs through Cincinnati, Ohio, USA?
36. What is the term for light created by means of heat?
37. What is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world?
38. Composer Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) is associated with which instrument?
39. What was the name of the TV doctor played by Richard Chamberlain in a US TV series in the 1960s?
40. Eleven Pacific-rim countries signed what free trade agreement in March 2018?
41. Where are the sheer cliffs of the Drakensberg?
42. This actor is the youngest of 5 children, his great-grandfather was blind and a piano tuner and music teacher, he won a Primetime Emmy Award 2014 for Outstanding Actor, and among many films and TV series starred in the film version of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"; who is he?
43. These are the first lines from what song: "There's a saying old, says that love is blind, Still we're often told, "seek and ye shall find"', So I'm going to seek a certain lad I've had in mind" ?
44. Keith Urban, who has had 2 platinum albums and 11 #1 singles in the USA, and is a winner of 3 Grammy Awards, was born where?
45. What is it called when, at the start of a snooker game, the white ball is hit onto the other balls, which are neatly arranged in the shape of a triangle?
46. Nirmala Nagpal, known as Saroj Khan or Master Ji, is known in India and internationally in what field?
47. What city was founded in 1868 near the Salt River, near its confluence with the Gila River?
48. How is a bodhrán usually played?
49. Where would a fuzzy cognitive map be found?
50. What is the most populous city in Canada, the provincial capital of Ontario, which is on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario?
51. What did the explorer Karl Mauch discover in 1871 while looking for King Solomon's mines and the biblical land of Ophir?
52. What is the least number of shots that a competitor can take to complete 18 holes of golf?
53. What member of the music and comedy duo "The Flight of the Conchords" was recently seen, under heavy disguise, as the Boris the Animal in the film "Men in Black 3" ?
54. Geoffrey Rush won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1996 for which of these films?
55. Which of these was the name of two Aztec emperors in the 15th and 16th centuries?
56. How did Faisal Shahzad make the news in May 2010?
57. Which of these was a co-owner of the Miss Universe franchise?
58. Among animals, what is a cob?
59. In 1945, which of these joined the British "Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service" as a Second Subaltern, trained as a driver and mechanic, drove a military truck, and rose to the rank of Junior Commander?
60. Which of these is a character created by Charlie Chaplin, and played by him in films from 1914?
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