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General Knowledge Quiz 351 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the name for an area of land, of which there are about 310 in the USA, managed by a Native American tribe under the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs?
2. Who were the two Aikens in the Jamaican netball team in 2009?
3. Canada and the USA have been the exclusive winners of the World Championship for men since it started in 1967 in what sport?
4. Sylvester Stallone was married to which of these women?
5. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first US-born citizen of the USA to what?
6. If a survey is topographical, what is it surveying?
7. What was worn in the 19th century in the west by women to give shape to the lower back?
8. Where is the city of Basrah?
9. What is the name for the period of French history from 2 December 1852 (when Napoleon III became Emperor) to 4 September 1870 (when the Third Republic was set up after the Battle of Sedan)?
10. In what game are the Marshall Attack or Defence gambits usually played
11. French woman Suzanne Lenglen dominated which sport in the 1920s?
12. Which is known as the hottest desert in Mexico?
13. The range running the length of the island of Borneo, from Mt Kinibalu in the north east to the south west Muller Mountains, is the line of divide between the administrative government of Indonesia and what?
14. What country was often called in western countries a "hermit kingdom" over the later part of the 16th to the beginning of the 20th centuries?
15. Phenolics are what?
16. According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who had "a long grey beard and a glittering eye" ?
17. The Easter Rising, an insurrection staged during Easter Week 1916 with the aim of ending British rule, was where?
18. Who was the hero of a number of tall stories by Rudolph Erich Raspe, published in 1785?
19. The 50.5 km Channel Tunnel, built under the English Channel or, in France, La Manche, to link the UK and France with road and rail access was finally opened in 1994. When was the first official Anglo-French protocol established to create the railway aspect of the link?
20. What is the word for the minimum number of people that must be at a meeting for it to become official?
21. How many islands greater than 1, 500 sq.km are shown in a map of New Zealand?
22. What type of dog is traditionally used above the Arctic Circle to pull sleds over snow?
23. How many sports were competed at the first Olympic Games in 8th century BCE?
24. Which romantic UK TV series aired from 1992 to 2005, written by one half of the scriptwriting duo behind "The Good Life" and "Ever Decreasing Circles" ?
25. Which is the fretted string instrument, part of the lute family, found in north Thailand?
26. In which of these was there a lamassu from 1952 to 1979?
27. What large bottle holds 16 standard bottles of wine?
28. Which of these teaches:that the religions of the world come from the same source and are in essence successive chapters of one religion from God, and there is need to find a unifying vision of the future of society and of the nature and purpose of life?
29. What was the scene of the final defeat of the Jacobites under Charles Edward Stuart by forces under the command of the Duke of Cumberland on 16 April 1746?
30. Whose alter egos have included Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and "The Thin White Duke" ?
31. What are "The Gorbals" ?
32. Which of these was a horse that won the British Grand National three times, in 1973, 1974 and 1977?
33. On 12 June 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected as president of which country?
34. Which American novelist, poet and painter, a major figure of the Beat Generation who affected popular culture as well as literature, shot his wife in Mexico in 1951?
35. Where is the Maasai Mara?
36. Which UK playwright wrote the 2014 plays "Glasshouse" and "Hopelessly Devoted" ?
37. The name for the vegetable okra in some Bantu languages is thought to be the origin of the name of what dish?
38. Abraham Ortelius, a Flemish cartographer and geographer, is generally recognised as the creator of the first what in 1570?
39. What word describes a retail dealer in special supplies or equipment for ships?
40. According to Celtic legend, where did heroes go to die?
41. Where is the Cotahausi Canyon, one of the deepest canyons in the world and over twice as deep, at its deepest point, as the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA?
42. The film "Jaws" was set in which town?
43. Which of these events occurred first?
44. Who wrote the song to which Miley Cyrus famously twerked in 2013?
45. Which of these starred in the television series "Kojak" ?
46. How did Shakespeare in his play "Cymbeline" end the line, "Golden lads and girls all must as chimneysweepers come to ..... "?
47. Which planet has 80 confirmed moons?
48. Which of these is NOT true of the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first games post World War II?
49. Who won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2012, and for what?
50. With whom are authors René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo usually associated?
51. In classical architecture, what is the plain-faced portion, usually rectangular, of a pedestal between the base and the cornice?
52. Who was backed by the Dakotas?
53. What sign of the zodiac is represented by a lion?
54. What is the official residence of the President of France?
55. In which country is the city of Aberdeen?
56. What numbers are on the two orange pool balls?
57. Playing a scenario close to the rise and assassination of real-life 1930s Louisiana Governor, Huey Long, the film won three Oscars (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Picture) and was nominated for four more. Which was it?
58. The Californian fly Helaeomyia petrolei is most likely to develop its larvae in which of these habitats?
59. Which UK TV series, based on a 1939 novel by Rumer Godden and starring Gemma Arterton, Alessandro Nivola, Aisling Franciosi, Jim Broadbent and Gina McKee, also starred Diana Rigg in one of her last performances?
60. Enjambment refers to ..... ?
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