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General Knowledge Quiz 350 (60 MCQs)

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1. How is Cyndi Lauper associated with the 2012 Broadway musical "Kinky Boots" ?
2. What was unusual about the lighting of the cauldron for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, UK?
3. What charity that aims to create new opportunities for aspiring young musicians is due to people involved with the Clash?
4. What is the chemical symbol for hydrogen?
5. The TV series that began to be broadcast in 2000 called "CSI:Crime Scene Investigation" (without a location in the title) is set in what city?
6. Who was the first player to be ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals as the No 1 World player?
7. Who is the next in this series:Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Bob Welch, Bob Weston, ..... ?
8. The opening sequence of the film "Airplane" (also entitled "Flying High") is a parody of which film?
9. What are Nestor, Gainsborough and the Black Maria?
10. What part of the human body is a linctus designed to help?
11. How many cards are used for a game of canasta?
12. Molecules contain what?
13. What is honorificabilitudinity?
14. What does the Japanese word "Kamikaze" mean?
15. What was the subject of the Mitchell Report to the Commissioner of Baseball in 2007?
16. The first goal in Football World Cup history was scored on 18 July 1930 by Lucien Laurent of France. France won 4-1. Who were they playing against?
17. In the use "to have done" something, what is the grammatical term for the "have" ?
18. What is a point of significance about the summit of Mount Chimborazo in the Ecuadorean Andes?
19. The Leominster Rams have won more than 20 US National titles, including seven straight wins 2004 to 2010, in which sport?
20. Which of these plays was written most recently?
21. Which of these is an actor who co-owns a top London restaurant called Langan's Brasserie?
22. The MacRobertson International Shield is competed for by Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand and the United States and known affectionately as "the MacRob", in which sport?
23. Which capital city was nearly destroyed by earthquake in 1972?
24. What was the "Haymarket Massacre" in 1886?
25. Where are the pleurae, bronchi and alveoli?
26. Which British 20th century author wrote "The Cruel Sea" and "The Tribe That Lost Its Head" ?
27. Which artist collaborated with architects Herzog & de Meuron as consultant in building the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics?
28. Which of these was a group of heretics in the south of France that Pope Innocent III tried to crush in the 13th century?
29. How many years ago did Cro-Magnon man, early modern European man, first become distinct?
30. What do Alfred Newman, John Williams, Johnny Green, André Previn, John Barry and Alan Menken have in common?
31. An increasingly popular music style in 2012 in Asia is called ..... ?
32. Peter Phillips, the only son of The Princess Anne, The Princess Royal and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, and the eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, married Autumn Kelly in 2008. Where did they meet?
33. The Royal Residence of George III of England and before him his father was at Kew Gardens, falling into disrepair in the early 19th century, and was known as what?
34. What is Berlin's "Unter Den Linden" ?
35. Which of these is not a ballet to music composed by Sergei Prokofiev?
36. The Salt March, one of the first and most powerful movements led by Mohandas Gandhi in the struggle for independence for India from Britain, started in Dandi on what date?
37. What are the first words of the hymn written by Henry Francis Lyte in 1847 that continues "Fast falls the Eventide" ?
38. Who choreographed (and directed) the 1972 film "Cabaret" ?
39. Which city has been by turns, since 1320, Lithuanian, Polish-Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Swedish, Russian, German, Polish, part of the USSR, and Belarussian?
40. The 2006 Open Golf Championship was played on which English course after a gap of almost 40 years?
41. Which band had a hit record in 1991 with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ?
42. L. Ron Hubbard is known as the founder of what movement?
43. The police force of which country is known locally as "The Gardaí" ?
44. Which country borders Senegal to the north?
45. What decade saw the Russian revolution which overthrew the existing government and established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the world's first constitutionally socialist state?
46. What instrument has a long neck and a round body of parchment stretched over a metal frame?
47. Which of these is a fortified wine, flavoured with aromatic herbs and spices such as cardamom, cinnamon, marjoram and chamomile?
48. In terms of high altitude landscapes, what are penitentes?
49. Chris Martin is the singer for which band?
50. Which of these sports has 9 players per side scoring from an area of 90 feet square?
51. In the second of the 2018 five-match Test series between England and India, during what was a rare series of cricket tournaments between the two teams on UK soil, England was not able to field team member, Ben Stokes, because he was on trial for what?
52. Which of these banking organisations has been the subject of several books, such as "Unholy Trinity:How the Vatican's Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets", "Genocide in Satellite Croatia 1941-1945" and "The Vatican's Holocaust", which appeared during the 1980s and 1990s?
53. Which Corsican, as Emperor of the French, used their armies to dominate continental Europe until his Grande Armée was so badly damaged in the invasion of Russia in 1812 that in 1813 he was forced to abdicate, and was exiled to the island of Elba?
54. Which play by Alan Bennett, set in Cutlers' Grammar School, Sheffield, in the early 1980s that follows a group of pupils preparing for examinations, premièred in London in 2004?
55. What has the types Tawny, Colheita, Garrafeira, Ruby, Pink, White and Crusted?
56. What has been defined as a man "who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" .
57. When US President William Harrison died in April 1841 what record(s) did he set?
58. The longest winning streak by any nation at an event in the Olympic Games was set by the USA, between 1896 and 1968. What was the event?
59. What was the Allegheny Time System designed for?
60. What is the original meaning of "check" in the chess terms "check" and "checkmate" ?
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