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General Knowledge Quiz 346 (60 MCQs)

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1. The battles of Talavera and Salamanca took place during which war?
2. Who founded the Ptolemaic dynasty which followed Alexander the Great as Pharaohs of Egypt?
3. Who organised a congress in Paris, on June 23, 1894 to establish the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and choose the host city for the 1896 Olympic Games?
4. What is a handmade shag wool item, traditionally made by the Vlachs in northern Greece and southern Albania in the Pindus mountains?
5. What is the city, founded in the 8th century AD and for more than 400 years a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual centre for the Islamic world until it was destroyed by the Mongols in 1258?
6. The Napa Valley wine producing region is in which country?
7. What 2009 science fiction disaster film starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, and Woody Harrelson references Mayanism and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, depicting a series of "Doomsday" scenarios that plunge the world into chaos?
8. What is geocaching most usually involved in?
9. Danish artist Robert Storm Petersen (1882-1949), known as Storm P, was celebrated for his work in which field?
10. If you were studying a "lek" which of these would you NOT be looking at?
11. When the Royal Charter was granted to the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies" what was the area over which they were granted monopoly?
12. Why did the Spanish in the 2000 Paralympics subsequently lose gold medals won in the intellectually disabled basketball tournament?
13. What became known as the "Phrygian cap" was an element of what ancient religion?
14. Where is the classic English horse race, the One Thousand Guineas for 3 year old fillies, run?
15. In 2010, Usain Bolt talked of moving to which two sports after the 2012 London Olympic Games?
16. Which English cricketer, a left-handed batsman who was named one of the Five Batsmen of the Year by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1893, captained Somerset in the late 19th century and appeared for Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club?
17. What is a titfer?
18. What is the second longest named river in the USA, which runs from Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico?
19. The Great Salt Lake, in the north of the US state of Utah, is the largest salt lake in the western hemisphere. What is the approximate average salinity of its main basin, Gilbert Bay?
20. What has been awarded to the winners of the Super Bowl since 1967?
21. What name was given to the night when Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues in November 1938?
22. What is the Dover Boat?
23. Where did poutine originate?
24. Who was speaking at Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 10 May 2005, when Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live hand grenade (which did not detonate) toward the podium?
25. In 1939, how did German Erich Warsitz make history?
26. A courgette is a small variety of what?
27. What is the stapes bone known as?
28. The most southerly point of England is at the tip of what peninsula?
29. How long did the term of the first democratically elected President of Egypt last?
30. What colour is the copper mineral called "malachite" ?
31. The term "Savoy Opera" includes all 13 operas that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote for Richard D'Oyly Carte, but "Patience" (1881) was the first to appear at the Savoy Theatre, and is, in a strict sense, the first true "Savoy Opera" . By that definition, how many G & S operas are not "Savoy Operas" ?
32. What is the next in this series:Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia?
33. When Léon Serpollet set the World land speed record, at 120.8 kph (75.06 mph), in April 1902 what was he using?
34. What record did Clint Eastwood set when he received the Academy Award for Best Director, for "Million Dollar Baby" in 2004?
35. Lon Chaney appeared in 1923 in a role he originated (and for which did his best make up job), in which of these films?
36. A station logo that TV broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen-area to identify the channel (known in the UK and New Zealand as a DOG and in the USA and Canada as a bug), is known as what in Australia?
37. For what is the RSA algorithm used?
38. The Caucasus Mountains run through which countries?
39. Which of these is not a British prison?
40. When was the Indian National Calendar first used?
41. What is a name for the 3-D version of a circle?
42. Which glands are just above the kidneys?
43. In Einstein's famous equation e=mc2, what does "e" stand for?
44. To what area is the wigwam native?
45. What was the last position that Lyndon B Johnson held when he became President of the USA?
46. Which river flows through six countries before reaching the sea at Rotterdam?
47. Which of these is found in the brain?
48. Which of these is a colourful bird found across Afro-Eurasia, notable for its distinctive 'crown' of feathers, the only species left in the family Upupidae?
49. Where was the Peninsular War?
50. Which British scientist is best known for his study of gravitation, his work on the spectrum, his statement on the laws of motion, the construction of telescopes, and his work on geometry and differential calculus?
51. Which of these writers was Russian?
52. What nationality was the author of the play "The First Distiller" (1886), a treatise on vegetarianism "The First Step" (1892), and the novel "Resurrection" (1899)?
53. Which of these islands belong to Spain?
54. What was the immediate effect of a decision of the US Supreme Court in 1972 known as Furman v. Georgia?
55. Which of these is a goddess in Egyptian mythology, the wife and sister of Osiris and mother of Horus, who found all of the pieces of Osiris's body after his brother had killed him, chopped him into tiny pieces and scattered them all over Egypt?
56. In mathematical terms, what is an integer?
57. What is measured in quires?
58. In which of these places is there not a Mount Olympus?
59. Which of these mountain ranges runs along the east coast of the USA?
60. In 1957 the USSR launched the first artificial satellite, with what name?
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