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General Knowledge Quiz 345 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which company, based in San Diego, California, was founded in 1914 when Frank Van Camp and his son bought the California Tuna Canning Company to form what was originally called the Van Camp Seafood Company?
2. Vidal Sassoon is best known for his work as what?
3. In what is "sous-vide" a method?
4. In Ovid's poem "Metamorphoses" Pygmalion famously fell in love with Galatea; what was Pygmalion's relationship to her?
5. Which nation was the first nuclear free zone?
6. What happened for the 1992 Olympics skeet shooting?
7. By what name is Gordon Sumner better known?
8. Brian O'Nolan wrote under a number of pseudonyms:Myles na gCopaleen, Brother Barnabas, George Knowall and which other?
9. What was the subject of the influential 1957 scientific paper known as B2FH?
10. An informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford between the early 1930s and late 1949 was known as what?
11. Where is the Great Bitter Lake?
12. Which game, in its early days marked by considerable violence, had some forms of the game which featured players mounted on barrels and swinging hammer-like "bats" ?
13. What was Sir Peter Blake internationally known for?
14. Which melodramatic opera depicting graphic scenes of torture, murder and suicide, set in Rome in June 1800 when the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome was threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy, contains some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias?
15. What is another word for "Endomorphic" ?
16. Yellow or red cards are given for infringements in which of these?
17. The Statute Law of the Orange Free State 1891 in South Africa was aimed at what?
18. Darwin, Cottage, May and Parrot are varieties of what?
19. Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel "On the Road" was written in what style?
20. The Mammoth Cave, near Louisville, Kentucky is famous for what?
21. Which of these is sometimes mounted on gimbals?
22. Competitors from which country won the most medals at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Rotterdam, Netherlands from 16 to 24 October 2010?
23. As what is the game Sternhalma commonly known?
24. Who, a drummer at the time, made the first known jazz recording using the vibraphone ("Memories of You") with Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra in 1930 and then concentrated on the vibraphone, joining the Benny Goodman Quintet, and later leading his own big bands?
25. The use of "lie" and "lay" has overlaps and current usage is developing to flatten it out. Before (and during) the transition which of these is the correct expression?
26. Which BBC TV programme of 4 series featured Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, with Chris Langham in the first series?
27. The Wellcome Apocalypse, a major German textbook from around 1420, has a detailed and previously unusual (for a European textbook) section dealing with what?
28. In the TV series "Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines", what is the name of Dastardly's squadron?
29. A television film released by Disney Channel Original Movie in 2006 was "High School ..... " what?
30. Which capital city is at the confluence of the White Nile and the Blue Nile?
31. What is the main active constituent of household bleach?
32. What does the "C" in the international organisation "OPEC" stand for?
33. In the culinary world, what word is used for the edible offal of a fowl, typically including the heart, gizzard and liver?
34. When the Spanish statesman, the first Marquess of Ensenada, encouraged one of the most important census and statistical investigations in the Europe of his time from 1749 onwards, what was his aim?
35. What is the name of the coffee shop that was a regular set for the US TV series "Friends" ?
36. What is the name of the craft in which the E1 World Championship, the first all-electric powerboat championship, is raced?
37. George Harrison said that he was inspired to write "My Sweet Lord" after hearing the Edwin Hawkins Singers' "Oh Happy Day" but it was decided by a US federal court (in "Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music") that he had unintentionally copied which hit record by The Chiffons?
38. Which of these was the first person to win all 4 of Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards?
39. In September 2013 Kurt Steiner in Pennsylvania set the world record, according to the Guinness Book of Records, for what?
40. American actress and singer Doris Day starred opposite many male leads in her films, not all of whom could sing. One early singing lead was Gordon Macrae; which was their first film?
41. Which of these is a book of the Bible's New Testament?
42. Kopeks make up one what?
43. What height should a tennis net be at the posts?
44. What is the name of the father in the cartoon series "The Family Guy" ?
45. How many members are there in the Italian upper house, the Senate?
46. Where is the Bagram air base?
47. Eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat, tongue of dog, lizard's leg, owlet's wing, scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, liver of blaspheming Jew, gall of goat, slips of yew, nose of Turk and Tartar's lips were some of the ingredients for a famous preparation made by whom?
48. Until his succession at the death of his mother in September 2022, Charles, the heir to the British throne, was the Duke of ..... ?
49. Alex Ferguson is said to have used footage of what, in an attempt to motivate his players during his time as manager of Premier League football club Manchester United?
50. Who first mentioned an "Iron Curtain" when discussing Soviet activities immediately after World War II?
51. Prior to Kermit the Frog another Kermit was well-known; he accompanied his father Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the USA, on an expedition 1913-14 during which the River Kermit was named in his honour. Where was the expedition?
52. Who married Bobby Darin in 1960 and was divorced in 1967?
53. The 2010 film "Soulboy" saw two actors working together who four years later would also star in what winner of the Royal Television Society Award in the UK for Best Drama Series?
54. Where was "Postimees", the first regular newspaper published in the language of the indigenous people of what became the independent country, founded in 1857?
55. What is Zhang Guolao known as?
56. It was created by the chef Auguste Escoffier in 1897 to help someone who was very ill, for whom it was later named, and popularised in 1925 by the Mayo Brothers who were prescribing for Ethel Barrymore. What was it?
57. Judd Hirsch, from the TV series "Numbers", was featured in which American sitcom that first aired from 1978 to 1983?
58. What is the minimum age for a horse to race in the Melbourne Cup?
59. Although the first permanent colour photo was taken in 1861 by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, the first 35mm colour film, "Kodachrome", did not reach the market until when?
60. What is a group of conditions involving damage to the joints of the body, the most common form of which is a result of trauma to or infection of the joint, or age?
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