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General Knowledge Quiz 341 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who abdicated on 30 April 1980, the day of her 71st birthday, and was succeeded by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands?
2. Which overweight knight from three Shakespearean plays was the subject of an opera by Verdi?
3. In 1834 Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais won against Alexander McDonnell in a famous series in what discipline?
4. Why, in the 2022 Winter Olympics, did the Swedish team ask that races be moved to earlier in the day?
5. Where are gabions likely to be found?
6. The states now called North and South Carolina were originally one province, Carolina. Why was it so named?
7. Double vision, the perception of two images from a single object, is properly called what?
8. In a court case in Toronto in October 1978, whose defence counsel compared him to Sylvia Plath, Vincent Van Gogh, Aldous Huxley, Judy Garland and F Scott Fitzgerald?
9. What is a more common name for the umbilicus?
10. Although António de Oliveira Salazar, Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968, did not resign, was not deposed, and had not died, the President appointed Marcelo Caetano in his place in 1968. Why?
11. Who became famous through three films made in 1955 and 1956, and died at the wheel of a Porsche in 1956?
12. The Sabine River forms the border of Texas with what other area?
13. Which is a species of marmot, also called a groundhog, found in parts of the USA?
14. Where would Christian clerics, particularly in Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Methodist churches, usually wear an alb?
15. Lieutenant General James Thomas Brudenell, who commanded the Light Brigade of the British Army during the Crimean War, was the 7th Earl of what?
16. What information technology company was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page?
17. The standard rosary, a string of beads used by Roman Catholics as an aid to memory during devotional exercises, has 59 beads. How many beads are there in the greater rosary used in religious orders?
18. The Forest of Arden appears in which Shakespearean play?
19. Which of North America's Great Lakes has the same name as a state of the USA?
20. Latvia has a maritime border to the west with what country?
21. Which British TV soap opera ran from 2 November 1964 to 4 April 1988 with minor changes of name, was revived on 5 March 2001, went into hiatus from August 2002 to January 2003, with the final episode broadcast on 30 May 2003?
22. What type of sentence is "pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs" ?
23. Who is credited with establishing the rules which differentiate North American Football, or gridiron, from other forms of ball games?
24. Clive Owen played "Dwight" in which 2005 film?
25. In which country is the city and naval base of Cadiz?
26. What name was given to the one eyed giants in Greek fables?
27. Who opened the restaurants called Pétrus and Amaryllis in Britain?
28. What style of commercial vehicle body, incorporating an enclosed box body extended over the cab, takes its name from the town in Bedfordshire where the Bedford commercial vehicle plant was located?
29. Who is the musician, singer-songwriter, painter, actor, and one of the founding members of Farm Aid, who released nine songs in the 1980s which all made the Top 10 in the USA?
30. Rome is on the banks of which river?
31. What film, in production between 2007 and 2009, was directed by James Cameron ("Titanic")?
32. The musical project "Forenzics" was formed in 2020 by the co-founder and a former member of which New Zealand band, active from 1972 to 1984?
33. What is the world's second largest continent?
34. Which of these two are members of the Who and are still alive?
35. The word "vascular" is associated with what?
36. "Peptic" refers to which activity of the human body?
37. The island of Luzon is part of which country?
38. Who had a hit with the song "The Rainbow Connection" ?
39. The following lyric is from which song: "Don't know much about the French I took" ?
40. Where is the highest point in the British Isles?
41. The use of holy wood, or guaiacum, from the 16th century as a treatment for syphilis in Europe was accompanied and followed by widespread use of what, until the 20th century?
42. What was the setting for the 1980 film "Fame" ?
43. What is the currency used in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon?
44. What is the FAST installation, nicknamed Tianyin, in southwest China?
45. Whose name is associated with radical developments in a household cleaning tool?
46. What landmark building in New York City was completed in 1931?
47. Who were sandwiched in 2021 between the border forces of Poland and Lithuania on one side and those of Belarus on the other?
48. Which of these is not a term for a male deer?
49. Which artists or group won the Grammy for Best R & B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1997, for their cover of a 1974 hit for Roberta Flack?
50. What is determined by the formula:pi multiplied by the radius squared and the perpendicular height divided by 3?
51. Who married Jay-Z in New York City on 4 April 2008?
52. Up until what Olympics was there a standing tradition to create mascots of national or regional significance for the host city or to events in the Olympics?
53. In American football, who stands behind the centre and calls the play?
54. What was the top selling song in 1940?
55. What is found on a charcuterie board?
56. Of these main rivers of Russia which has headwaters outside its borders?
57. What is the name for a mysteriously flattened area in a field?
58. The Cocos Islands are in which body of water?
59. What is the name of a pipe originating in India and Persia where smoke passes from a bowl to a water bottle and thence by a tube to the mouth?
60. What is the base of the Tunisian dessert dish known as asidet zgougou?
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