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General Knowledge Quiz 365 (60 MCQs)

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1. Mastitis affects what part of the body?
2. From which sport do we get the expression "Bowled a googly" ?
3. Who is the patron saint of Spain?
4. The two roots of the word "philosophy" mean "love of" and what?
5. Which of these was not one of the "Three Fates" (or "Moirae") in Greek mythology?
6. Sometimes thought of as the Stone of the Hebrew Old Testament Jacob, also known as Jacob's Pillow, the Stone of Destiny, and, most usually, as the Stone of Scone what has it been used for most recently?
7. Brothers Joe and Fred Davis were multiple world champions between them in the 1920s to the'1950s in what sport or sports?
8. The White Witch, Madagascan Sunset, Luna and Gypsy are varieties of what?
9. Where is Tuva (or Tyva)?
10. What do the letters "SWAT" stand for?
11. Which of these did not happen during the period from the end of 1990 to end of 1991?
12. With what activity is Russian Marc Chagall associated?
13. The work of mathematician and cosmographer, Pedro Nunes (1502-1578), was the first to propose what for navigators?
14. Where was the first StandUp and Paddleboard World Championship organised by the International Surfing Association (ISA) held?
15. To stultify is to do what?
16. What example of a clipper ship built in 1869 is preserved in a dry dock at Greenwich, London?
17. Who was the first female artist to have a #1 album in the USA and the UK simultaneously?
18. The husband of Mumtaz designed and built what magnificent monument in India to her when she died in 1631?
19. Whom do Sikhs venerate as the founder of their religion?
20. A 10-year declaration of non-aggression was signed in 1934 between which two countries?
21. Which of these is true of adders?
22. What is the title of the unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson?
23. What was signed to end World War I?
24. Who created the Daleks?
25. Which of these is a Thracian shepherd captured by Romans and trained as a gladiator, who escaped and became leader of an army of escaped slaves in the first century BC?
26. By what name is Vincent Damon Furnier better known?
27. What is the name given to the silent electrical discharge between the atmosphere and, for example, trees, ships' masts, steeples and flagpoles?
28. Which American science fiction television series, first aired from 1993 to 2002, tapped into public mistrust of governments and large institutions and interest in conspiracy theories and spirituality, centring on efforts to uncover the existence of extraterrestrial life?
29. Which of these are dialects of the Inuit language spoken in the northern Northwest Territories of Canada?
30. What is the capital of Serbia?
31. Who sang, backed by U2, as the first song in the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London, in 2005?
32. What was the name of his backing band for Bill Haley on the record "Rock Around the Clock" that was released in 1954?
33. A species of the plant artemisia used to be a main ingredient in what drink?
34. Who was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia?
35. Which company designed the "safety pin dress" worn by Liz Hurley to a 1994 Los Angeles film premiere?
36. How many million years ago (mya) is it estimated that the ancient supercontinent Pangaea started to break up?
37. Which mammal(s) are covered in large scales?
38. Which of these originated in Japan?
39. A "parsec" is a measure of what?
40. Sir Peter Blake led a team which won what in 1995 and 2000?
41. Which of these is a German manufacturer of fountain pens and other writing, office and art equipment?
42. The last episode of 13 years of what popular US TV series was broadcast in 1991?
43. Who created the character of Miss Marple?
44. What are the main ingredients of a Snow White salad?
45. In 17th century England James Hind became notorious as what?
46. In 2006, Stephen Harper became the Prime Minister of which country?
47. What type of land constitutes most of the country of Gabon on the west coast of Africa?
48. According to the Brothers Grimm, what was the name of the dwarfish creature who appeared to a young woman shut in a tower to spin straw into gold?
49. How many leaders are recognised in 2014 as absolute monarchs?
50. Empress Matilda ruled England in which century?
51. The world's first publicly subscribed passenger railway, the Stockton and Darlington, opened in England with steam engines when?
52. Ernest Lawrence of the University of California, Berkeley, is credited with the development in 1929 of what type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles using a high-frequency, alternating voltage in a perpendicular magnetic field, causing them to spiral and encounter the accelerating voltage many times?
53. In which situation does REM rebound not happen?
54. What is the name for the longest side of a right angled triangle?
55. Bangladesh declared independence from which country on 26 March 1971?
56. From 752 BCE to 664 BCE the Kings of Kush in Nubia, ruled over what other area as well?
57. Who has hosted the US series "Power of 10", "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "The Price Is Right" ?
58. Who played Mr Big in the TV series "Sex and the City" which first ran from 1998 to 2004, and the films "Sex and the City" (2008) and "Sex and the City 2" (2010)?
59. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at a stage performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre on Good Friday, 14 April 1865?
60. Which are the official languages of the Republic of Djibouti?
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