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General Knowledge Quiz 356 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which city, established in 1849 as a protective Army outpost situated on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River, is the home of a NASCAR track called The Texas Motor Speedway?
2. Until 1869 where was the city known as Edo?
3. Which of these animals is native to South America?
4. What was INSTEX, established 31 January 2019, designed to ease?
5. The Arapawa Island, California Red, Corriedale, East Friesian, Hampshire, Oxford, Romney, South Dorset, Swifter and Yemeni are all types of what?
6. The first club in England was incorporated in 1872 for which sport that originated in India?
7. Which song begins by describing what happens at "nine o'clock on a Saturday" (when the regular crowd shuffles in)?
8. What is a use in the 21st century for gutta-percha?
9. Who became the King of Spain on 22 November 1975, two days after the death of Francisco Franco?
10. What happened on the 1 September 1923, aggravated by the days that followed, to devastate Japan's thriving economy?
11. Which volcano buried the Italian city of Pompeii?
12. Which of these is not part of Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle" ?
13. Which are the only strictly marine herbivorous mammals?
14. Which of these would the abbreviation CBD not apply to?
15. What was Jean Harlow known as?
16. Where is the Tropic of Cancer currently?
17. What attaches muscles to bone?
18. The works of artists De Chirico, André Breton, Miró, Magritte, Dalí and Ernst are examples of what art movement?
19. The Garonne river passes through Toulouse and Bordeaux after rising where?
20. Who was known as the shoe bomber, who in 2003 was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to destroy a commercial aircraft in-flight by detonating explosives hidden in his shoes, which led to the requirement of US airline passengers having to remove their shoes for inspection before boarding?
21. The phrase "as green as grass" is an example of ..... what?
22. According to Charlotte Brontë, who did Jane Eyre marry?
23. The Tuareg are the principal inhabitants of which area?
24. Who has been Prime Minister of France twice and President of France once?
25. Who was president of the USA during the American Civil War?
26. How old was New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko when she turned professional in 2013?
27. What is a "devil's coach horse" ?
28. Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, which country is completely surrounded by the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, which also divides it in two?
29. What is "schist" ?
30. The Council of Constance 1414-18 had the main purpose of ending the Three Popes Schism, and was convened by the Antipope John XXIII. John had two brothers who were sentenced to death for what?
31. N'Djamena is a city in which country?
32. What is the title of the 41 minute film of the Beatles first US concert?
33. What colour are Mickey Mouse's shoes?
34. Where are Southampton Island and the King George Islands?
35. Where is Cockaigne, or Cockayne?
36. What semi-autonomous unincorporated territory of New Zealand held referenda in 2006 and 2007 on self-determination?
37. In the equation "2 to the power of 3 = 8", 3 is the "what" of 8 to the base 2?
38. Goalkeeper Jens Ramme's debut for Dynamo Dresden was in the quarter-final of the 1985-86 European Cup Winners' Cup, when they were 3-1 up at half-time and he was brought on as a replacement. He let in six goals in 29 minutes:Dynamo lost. They were playing against which team?
39. What, in 1337, caused the Hundred Years' War between France and England?
40. What are onnagata?
41. What was Shoemaker-Levy 9, that crashed into Jupiter in 1994?
42. What is the only African country that has a coastline on both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?
43. What type of drink is vermouth?
44. In 1990 a strip of land seceded from its then parent country and called itself Transnistria, or Trans-Dniester; what is the parent country?
45. In a film script, what do the letters MCU mean?
46. What is another name for "denatured alcohol", i.e. ethanol with additives (such as methanol, isopropyl alcohol, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone and denatonium), used as a solvent and as fuel for spirit burners and camping stoves?
47. What is the first name of Senor Domingo, one of the "Three Tenors" ?
48. Which of these is a TV police drama starring Helen Mirren?
49. What is the common name for London's Criminal Court?
50. Which group was the subject of the Microsoft Xbox 360 games Rock Band that premièred in June 2009 which is intended to be "a revolutionary tour" of their music and career?
51. Which year was the last in which the Summer and the Winter Olympics were held in the same year?
52. Where do tepals occur?
53. Which of these Englishmen runs a restaurant?
54. In literature, what is the word for the events that follow the climax of a drama, literally "the untying of the complexities of a plot" ?
55. What is a dropsonde?
56. Where does the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Grand Canal, the longest and oldest canal or artificial river in the world, flow from and to?
57. What is the name of the water sports that originated in Australia in the early 20th century, that has become popular in New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, and the USA?
58. What is the official distance for a marathon?
59. In the final of the Basketball competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics, the last 3 seconds of the game were ordered to be played again, which resulted in which team being awarded the gold medal?
60. Which April 2019 song, co-written and-produced by a USA singer-songwriter and a NZ producer and musician, debuted at number 100 on the Billboard Hot 100 and jumped to number 2 in its second week becoming the biggest single-week jump in Hot 100's history?
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