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General Knowledge Quiz 353 (60 MCQs)

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1. At the opening ceremony of every Olympic Games when the athletes parade into the stadium, what is traditionally the first nation to enter?
2. Who was one of the first female movie stars, called "The First Lady of the Silent Screen", who was the only star from the silent era to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, and who received a Special Academy Award in 1971?
3. The US TV series "Sex and the City" was based on a book adapted from a newspaper sex column by which writer?
4. What name is given to art that depicts inanimate (typically commonplace) objects, either natural (e.g. food, flowers, plants, rocks & shells) or man-made (e.g. drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins & pipes) in an artificial setting?
5. Which definition of a number does NOT apply to the mathematical constant pi (ฯ€)
6. Under whose papacy was the Inquisition introduced into Spain?
7. Which game has been played in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in "A Little Pretty Pocketbook" where it is called Baseball?
8. What was the name of two tyrants who ruled Syracuse in the 2nd century BCE?
9. In 1893 idealists from which country founded a short-lived settlement in Paraguay?
10. Where is the ancient game of senet traditionally played?
11. What sound announces the start of the performance of a play in France?
12. Around 1910, the White Star Line was building three sister ships:The Titanic, The Gigantic (later named the Britannic) and which other?
13. If an artist discusses canon, collage, call and response, and retrograde, what are they most likely to be talking about?
14. What name is given by scholars to the first 6 books of the Old Testament of the Bible?
15. A madeleine, originating in France, is a type of what?
16. Which of these is a medieval wind instrument related to the trumpet?
17. What fruit is mentioned in the official nickname of the US state of Georgia?
18. In which 1973 thriller film directed by Nicolas Roeg was there an explicit sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie?
19. In September 2010 Lady Gaga attracted attention by posing in a bikini for the cover of Japan's Hommes Vogue magazine and appearing on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards wearing a dress made of what?
20. What is the scientific term used when something is moving from a solid to a gas without passing through a liquid state?
21. Which entertainment American cable TV network is owned by Time Warner Inc.?
22. Olof Palme was assassinated in 1986 when he was Prime Minister of which country?
23. Guarani is one of the two official languages of which country?
24. What vehicle was driven by Starsky and Hutch in the US TV programme?
25. What party overthrew the government of Iraq in 1968?
26. Gough Whitlam was Prime Minister of what country from 1972 to 1975?
27. By the end of the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships which country held the top all-time Championships medal count?
28. The professional basketball team which started in 1961 as the Chicago Packers is called what in 2022?
29. What building, built between 1754 and 1790 as a church to St Genevieve, was set aside as a mausoleum for famous Frenchmen in 1792?
30. Which of these is a plant cultivated for its flowers, which are often tinted with purple, maroon, cerise, pink or red, that attaches itself to structures by tendrils?
31. What 1983 Scottish film, starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi and Burt Lancaster, was directed by Bill Forsyth with music by Mark Knopfler?
32. In the term "CE", for years called "AD" in Christian terminology, what does the "C" stand for?
33. In the English legal system, what does a lawyer become when he or she "takes silk" ?
34. If competitors are told to "nock", what sport are they competing in?
35. In the 19th century, in 1831-2, 1848-9 and 1853-4, London in the UK suffered major epidemics of what disease?
36. Which Irish philanthropist founded houses for destitute children in Stepney in 1870?
37. In 1933 Richard Hollingshead in the USA patented what idea?
38. "Service" is the way the ball is put into play in which game?
39. Which of these is a port on Cyprus?
40. Which country decided to switch to driving on the left from mid September 2009?
41. Whose top hat and other belongings fetched nearly half a million euros at auction in May 2009?
42. Hudson Bay, Canada, is directly north of which other bodies of water?
43. What colour is the alb worn by some Christian clerics?
44. What items are in lots of 52 as standard, each with a unique combination of numbers and symbols?
45. According to Greek legend, which sorceress helped Jason to find the golden fleece and became his wife?
46. Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is the capital of which group of islands?
47. The Bay of Bengal is bounded by India, Bangladesh and which other country?
48. What car manufacturer was the first to design a car using a wind tunnel, the first to sell a car with a monocoque chassis, the first to offer a 5 speed gearbox as an option and the first to sell a car fitted with a V6 engine?
49. The same person links the 1960 film "Pollyanna" and which other 1959 film?
50. What 2003 film was about a murdered Irish journalist played by Cate Blanchett?
51. The first novel by Scottish-American fashion designer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize in 2020. What is the theme of the book?
52. The craisin is the dried fruit of which of these?
53. Which of these is not a weapon used in fencing?
54. Johann Friedrich GutsMuths and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed, that led to what is considered modern gymnastics. When was this?
55. In the American War of 1812 against Great Britain the ship now known as Old Ironsides defeated five British warships (HMS Guerriere, HMS Java, HMS Pictou, HMS Cyane and HMS Levant). She is still afloat. What name was she commissioned under?
56. What word is used to describe someone within an organisation who leaks information?
57. The Kalahari Desert is on which continent?
58. Where does the small nocturnal, tree-dwelling insectivorous marsupial, the only surviving member of the Microbiotheria, live?
59. Benjamin Franklin once wrote that nothing was certain in this world except death and what?
60. Which of these is a horse racing team, based in Dubai?
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