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General Knowledge Quiz 364 (60 MCQs)

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1. What motive power does a yacht commonly use?
2. The Severn Tunnel connects which two British cities?
3. Which English king was removed from the throne in 1399?
4. Which of these is an alternative name for the area that the Germans call "Bodensee" ?
5. What is the capital of Sudan?
6. Which of these was an outcome of the sinking of Greenpeace's ship the "Rainbow Warrior" by French intelligence service (DGSE) agents in New Zealand in 1985?
7. Which English explorer and writer founded the first (unsuccessful) colony in Virginia in 1584?
8. Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park With George" was inspired by a painting by whom?
9. The island of Madagascar is off the coast of which African mainland country?
10. American saxophonist and clarinettist Lester Young was famously a partner, as a close friend and in recordings, with which singer?
11. Which Hollywood star married baseball hero Joe DiMaggio?
12. The 2005 British Open Golf Tournament was held where?
13. Which is the preposition in the sentence "Mary put her dog in the basket" ?
14. Which of these is an indication of approval?
15. Which of these Shakespeare plays is set in Verona?
16. What comics series, created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières, first published in the magazine "Pilote" in 1967, reached its final instalment in 2010?
17. Pierre de Coubertin who founded the modern Olympic Games thought competing in art was an essential part of the movement; medals in various arts were awarded from 1912 until when?
18. In, or based on, what language was Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy" written?
19. Where did the Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel carry out his ground-breaking and seminal experiments in genetics?
20. Up to 31 December 2009, which of these was the last to have a solo number one hit on the English charts?
21. Who played opposite Gene Kelly in "Singin' in the Rain" ?
22. Emperor Quetzalcoatl ruled which ancient people in Mexico in the 10th century CE?
23. Why was Korean short-track speedskater Kim Dong-Sung disqualified from the men's 1500 metre final at the 2000 Olympics?
24. Treeshrews, colugos, hyraxes, some primates and some African antelopes have a special physical adaptation, mainly used for grooming and referred to as what?
25. Which of these is a form of clay used in the production of oil paint pigments, the name for which derives from the most notable Renaissance location for it, a city in Tuscany, Italy?
26. What is the name of the cross-pieces on a guitar fingerboard?
27. Who reigned earliest in Scotland?
28. Which character in the comic strip "Peanuts" often carries a cat with her?
29. There are 296 steps from where to where?
30. Mike Tyson and Peter McNeeley met in the boxing ring in 1995 in Tyson's first professional match after being released from a prison term. The purse for Tyson was US$ 25 million. How long did the fight last?
31. Constantinople became the capital of which empire in 1457?
32. On 14 November 1910, Eugene Burton Ely was the first to do what in an aeroplane?
33. An invasion of Great Britain was planned by France in 1744 shortly after the declaration of war between them as part of the War of the Austrian Succession. Why did the invasion not happen?
34. The first Winter Olympics was held in conjunction with 1924 Olympic Games and was originally called what?
35. Who wrote under the pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier?
36. A road system running down the west coast of the Americas, apart from a short gap across the south part of Central America, from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, is called what?
37. What is the present and original, name of the Cuban bay briefly called Puerto Grande, and then Cumberland Bay?
38. Spain and Andorra (in the Pyrenees between Spain and France) share what distinction?
39. What strait connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf Of Oman?
40. Until 1599 (in Sweden, Norway and Denmark), 1600 (in Scotland ), 1725 (in Russia), and 1752 (in England, Wales, Ireland and Britain's American colonies) what did those countries observe as New Year's Day?
41. Which TV series concentrated on the death of Laura Palmer?
42. Where is the highest mountain peak, measured above sea level, in the Americas?
43. Thomas Becket was murdered in which English Cathedral?
44. Which of these musical entertainments was written by a writer more usually known in another partnership, with composer Frederic Clay?
45. What does "hooly" imply?
46. In 1949, in the last stages of the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong announced the creation of the People's Republic of China in which newly named capital of the Republic?
47. Which nation tested the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated?
48. Which of these is by Tchaikovsky?
49. Tico Torres is the drummer for which band?
50. What marks a horse's graduating to join the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery in the UK?
51. What is a gregorian chant?
52. Freestyle swimming means ..... ?
53. Where is a crannog found?
54. Who wrote the play "Mrs Warren's Profession" which was twice refused a licence to be performed in London and was closed down in New York when the actors were charged with offences against public decency?
55. Which of these is a novel by Oliver Goldsmith?
56. How does an anaconda produce young?
57. What is the correct size of balls used in the sport of flyball?
58. Nimbus clouds have what characteristic?
59. What is the estimate of standard blood pressure in giraffes?
60. When did Canada have a female Prime Minister?
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