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General Knowledge Quiz 35 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who said "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl" ?
2. He is an alpine ski racer, who won four overall World Cup titles (1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), two Olympic gold medals (in 1998), and three World Championship titles (1999, 1999 and 2005). Who is he?
3. In which 1981 television series did Kenneth Williams voice at least 13 characters, and together with one other actor voice all of the characters in the series?
4. William Harnett, Annibale Carracci, Abraham van Beyeren, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Giorgio Morandi, Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso all painted what style of painting?
5. Which of these is a type of tuna?
6. Sliced bread, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped", was first sold when?
7. What book was written by Alexandre Dumas about Edmond Dantès's imprisonment in the Chateau d'If?
8. A mechanical reel, which rotates to wind a measured length of yarn into a skein, is known as a spinner's what?
9. Polish pole vaulter, Władysław Kozakiewicz, controversially did what when he won his event in the 1980 Moscow Olympics?
10. What is another term for agnosic alexia?
11. Who is the lead singer of the Rolling Stones?
12. Which of these elements can be used to power a nuclear reactor?
13. Puffin and Penguin, now Penguin Random, are associated with what?
14. According to the English nursery rhyme, who ran after the farmer's wife?
15. What branch of biology, dating from the discovery of blood corpuscles by Marcello Malpighi in 1661, classifies and describes the development of the forms of living organisms?
16. Which 1982 scifi film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Mary Sean Young, was set in a dystopian 2019 (at that time, the future) Los Angeles, USA?
17. Where is the Gulf of Bothnia?
18. Which game uses six sets of coloured pieces, ten of each colour, whereby a piece moves either to an adjacent spot or by a "jump" over another piece?
19. Where was there an armed attack on the Parliament building by militants on the morning of 19 October 2010?
20. The 1956 French romantic drama "Et Dieu ..... créa la femme" ("And God Created Woman"), starring Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Louis Trintignant, was whose first film as director?
21. If money is hypothecated what does this mean?
22. What was Glenn Miller's signature tune?
23. Which song is this line from: "Shush girl, shut your lips, Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips" ?
24. What was the original prize for winning golf's Open Championship (the British Open)?
25. Which composer of musicals was knighted in 1992 and made a life peer in 1997?
26. The numeral systems which have used 60 as a base include which of these?
27. The small gelatinous stinging freshwater tube-like predators known as hydra have what unusual characteristic?
28. What is the common name for decompression sickness?
29. What striking and fielding team game, originating in England and known in Ireland as cluiche corr, is played between two teams alternating between batting and fielding and involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a round bat and then running around four bases in order to score?
30. Which one of these was awarded the 1943 Best Picture Oscar?
31. What chromosomes do the two main human sexes have?
32. Mike Leigh has been celebrated and much-awarded as a film writer and director, but is also celebrated as a playwright. Which of these plays is his first?
33. Where were public toilet or lavatory facilities first recorded?
34. On 1 May 1707, who became the first sovereign of the "Kingdom of Great Britain" ?
35. "Parsifal" was the last opera by which composer?
36. It was inspired by an Ingmar Bergman film, has had Glynis Johns, Judi Dench and Catherine Zeta-Jones as leading actress, all of whom have won major awards in the role, and has contributed a haunting and enduring song to the popular canon. Which is it?
37. Which author won "The Best of the Booker", a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary, for his novel "Midnight's Children" ?
38. What is the popular name for Beethoven's piano sonata in C Sharp Minor?
39. What does the "A" stand for in the acronym VAR for the system used in football games?
40. Who played James Herriot in the British TV series (1978-1990) "All Creatures Great and Small" ?
41. What is the name of the days on the Roman Catholic and Anglican calendars that are the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Ascension Day?
42. In Star Wars, what is the name of Han Solo's companion?
43. Scribes from Roman times to the Middle Ages and later used a technique to maximise the use of precious writing material. Which of these describes one result?
44. Which is Australia's closest southern island or islands?
45. In the top 10 wine producing countries in the world as ranked by Forbes, which South American country or countries is/are included?
46. What is the name for the open areas of country in South Africa?
47. What was the central theme of a ten-play cycle (1982 to 2005) by American playwright and poet, August Wilson?
48. Bob Hoskins, an English actor awarded and acclaimed for roles in TV and film ranging from gangsters to playing opposite a cartoon, died in April 2014 at 71; he also, at the age of over 60, played something very close to a romantic interest in which film?
49. What is the name of the test cricket venue in Nottingham, England?
50. Where would one find a favela?
51. On the Isle of Man, the "House of Keys" is concerned with what?
52. What sport is competed in the Giro d'Italia?
53. Originally a criticism, what does the term "gunzel" mean now?
54. Who is credited with the invention of the rotary internal combustion engine, introduced by NSU in their "Ro 80" in 1967 and used by Mazda in their "RX"models, the first of which, the RX-2, was introduced in 1970?
55. Kenneth Cobonpue from the Philippines is world famous in what?
56. Which of these keys on a computer keyboard has no function except in combination with another?
57. Who wrote children's books featuring Noddy and Big Ears, and the Famous Five?
58. What is the name for the protein which is the main constituent of hair, horns, nails, claws and hooves of mammals?
59. Who was the first US Secretary of the Treasury?
60. What does the description "spinto" refer to?
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