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General Knowledge Quiz 358 (60 MCQs)

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1. With which country do you associate the sitar?
2. Who is credited with writing the software for Skype?
3. What genre is the TV series "Taggart" ?
4. The Yangtze River is on which continent?
5. For a constant sound wave, what is the time interval between successive crests per second called?
6. When the US swimmer Michael Phelps became the youngest male at the time to break a world record in swimming, what was the occasion?
7. What was one of the immediate effects of the sinking of the liner, Lusitania, en route from New York, USA, to Liverpool, UK, by German submarine in 1915?
8. Although there is no legislated term, the Secretary-General of the United Nations is (since 1971) re-elected or replaced at what interval?
9. Which scientist, born In Württemberg, failed to pass the general part of his examination for the Swiss Federal polytechnic school in Zürich in 1895 but is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists in his field?
10. What is the main aspect which distinguishes the American sport of roque from the sport from which it developed?
11. What does the first "A" in the acronym for the American scientific body known as "NOAA" stand for?
12. Who worked at Betchley Park in World War II as one of the Enigma codebreakers and became known as "the father of modern computer science" ?
13. Which city hosted the 1972 Olympics?
14. Unlike other vertebrates, placental mammals and most bony fishes lack what?
15. Backgammon is a game for how many players?
16. The cocktail "Black Russian" is created by mixing what spirits?
17. What civil engineering project first begun in 1876, opened in 1994?
18. How many disciplines were competed at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics in Turkey?
19. What ceremony was held for the first time on 10 December 1901?
20. What was the cause of the disqualification of Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall at Mexico City in 1968, the first as a result of failing a doping test at an Olympic Games?
21. What name is given to the jewelled, gilded and illuminated mediaeval religious manuscript, thought to have been created c. 715-20 CE in Britain and presently held in the British Library?
22. What is the highest point in the 48 contiguous states of the USA?
23. What is hapax legomenon?
24. By what 1803 agreement did the USA buy 828, 000 square miles (2.14 million km²), approximately a third of all present mainland USA territory-and doubling its territory at the time-stretching diagonally from Montana in the north to New Orleans in the south?
25. What title was held by Edward VIII after his abdication?
26. What sort of animal was "Bambi", the main role in a Walt Disney cartoon released in 1942?
27. Where is the tendon known as the hamstring?
28. Under what name are the participants in the UK TV series "QI" currently known?
29. When was the first train run on the route known as the Orient Express?
30. What fictional football club was the centre for the UK TV series "Footballers' Wives" ?
31. The abacus was designed as a what?
32. Which was one of the longest running characters in a British TV series, from 1979 to 1994, who never appears on screen?
33. What nationality is Jason Wynyard, who gained his fourteenth world championship title in woodchopping and sawing at the world Timbersports championships in Norway in 2017?
34. How did the theme song for the TV show "The Monkees" begin?
35. What is the next in this series:largo, lento, adagio, andante, moderato, allegretto, allegro ..... ?
36. How many broad categories of marine ecosystem are there?
37. American Richard Fosbury was lucky to have what, when he was developing the technique which is named after him?
38. In the UK, the Ordnance Survey is an executive agency of government that is one of the world's largest producers of what?
39. In 1947 what statues were unveiled on either side of the Mandraki Harbour entrance, Rhodes?
40. Which is the smallest European carnivore by weight?
41. The biography by Sir Ranulph Fiennes published in 2003 was about which Captain?
42. What does the internet term "thread" refer to?
43. When is the original version of the statue Mannekin Pis thought to have been built?
44. Mutesa I (1835-1884), Mwanga II (1867-1903), Daudi Chwa II (1896-1939) & Sir Edward Mutesa II (1924-1969), four previous kabakas (kings of Buganda), are buried at which UNESCO World Heritage Site?
45. The juice of pears is used to make which of these?
46. Which team beat Australia 34-20 in the Rugby League World Cup final in 2008?
47. What is a caravel?
48. What major city lies on a line joining the North American cities of Toledo, Monroe, Wyandotte, Windsor and London?
49. In the 19th century a number of British theatres, because they showed a preponderance of bloodthirsty melodramas, became known as what?
50. Saint Therese is associated with which town?
51. Sherlock Holmes was proficient in which fictional martial art invented by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
52. Colca Canyon in Peru is famous as one of the world's ..... ?
53. John Graunt (1620-1674), one of the earliest Fellows of the Royal Society, is celebrated for bringing a scientific approach to what?
54. What international event held at the end of each year, featuring some of the world's best racing and rally drivers, was first co-organised in 1988 by former rally driver Michèle Mouton?
55. In 1874 the Teddington Cricket Club began to draw up rules that were formally published by the Wimbledon club in 1883, for which game?
56. A common phrase used in the 20th century to refer to subversive communist activities was "reds under the ..... " what?
57. Where is the Ross Sea?
58. What is or are the official language(s) of the Olympic Games?
59. What word has come to describe a hatter who designs, makes, sells or trims hats primarily for a female clientele?
60. Who formally opened the 2018 Winter Olympics?
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