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General Knowledge Quiz 366 (60 MCQs)

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1. What organisation was founded in 1897 as the "Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland" and is affiliated to the Federation International d'Automobile?
2. Which of these people was born Nicholas Coppola?
3. What is unusual about the traditional Greek string instrument known as tampouras, tambouras, tabouras, taburas, tsambouras and tambouri?
4. What type of computer uses three possible values in its calculations:the digits-1, 0, and +1?
5. According to Greek legend, who was the king of Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had made and married her after Aphrodite brought her to life?
6. Which of these is a novel by Hunter S Thompson?
7. American singer and pianist, rhythm-and-blues star and one of the first rock-and-roll stars, Antoine Domino, was better known as what?
8. Which of these is the surname of two American brothers who were pioneer aviators?
9. Which of these is not a triplet?
10. What was the basis of the name "Angola" used for its west African colony by the Portuguese?
11. Which of these is a ball game similar to mixed netball, contested between teams of four men and four women, that is played in more than 50 countries?
12. In Los Angeles, California, USA, African-American Rodney Glen King III was beaten severely by police after leading them on a high speed chase and resisting arrest, leading to massive rioting by African-Americans in the Los Angeles area when the police officers involved were acquitted. When did the beating happen?
13. Clematis vitalba, a plant of the Ranunculaceae family, is also known as Traveller's Joy and what other name?
14. Who played "Elaine Robinson" in the 1967 film, "The Graduate" ?
15. In 2012 New Zealander Lydia Ko became famous as the youngest person to win a professional event in what?
16. Which conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1922 to 1945 was charged, after World War II, with supporting the Hitler regime?
17. China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is understood, as at 2020, to be planned to run from the Chinese coast to where?
18. Nivation is the name for the process that erodes rock due to the action of what?
19. Which of these places are the greatest distance apart in a straight line?
20. The Scandinavian drink, Lillehammer Berry Liqueur, is made from what berries?
21. In what genre did the author of the book which was the base for the film of social and political dystopia "Children of Men" (2006) usually work?
22. What headwear is traditionally worn at the English public school called Eton?
23. What is a sometimes devastating and career-ending injury common in sports that involve sudden stops or changes in direction, jumping and landing?
24. When did the most well-known armistice to end fighting in the First World War come into effect?
25. Where is the game reserve, or wildlife sanctuary, Maasai Mara?
26. Swaying and dancing with hoops, like the modern hula hoop, has distant ancestors as well as current cousins, but not including ..... ?
27. What was known in the UK in World war II as "the Matilda" ?
28. What does an imprimatur convey?
29. Which of these mountain ranges lies in the North American continent?
30. What world leader surprisingly announced his resignation on 31 December 1999?
31. Who was the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1964 to 1965 and the first Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979?
32. An easel is most likely to be used by ..... ?
33. Where are the Mulu Caves, explored since 1978 by a collaboration between UK speleologists, the Forestry Corporation for the area, and the UNESCO World Heritage site which is the Gunung Mulu National Park?
34. Which of these is not a former cast member of the Australian soap opera "Home and Away" ?
35. What did Captain James Cook take on his sea voyages, as experience had taught him that it was an effective preventative of scurvy (containing vitamin C and lactobacilli)?
36. What is the largest country by land area in Africa?
37. What is Lusi, or Lumpur Sidoarjo, in East Java?
38. The French horse race called the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is run at which race course?
39. The wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton in 2011 is the 10th royal wedding to be held at Westminster Abbey. The first was that of Princess Patricia of Connaught to the Hon. Alexander Ramsay, which was in what year?
40. What is the east coast of Nicaragua, fronting the Caribbean Sea, called?
41. Which 2004 film, directed by Mike Nicholls and starring Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Natalie Portman concerns two obsessive couples whose intimacy pushes them further apart?
42. In the late 18th century what was the term "dephlogisticated" applied to?
43. Up to the first half of 2013 who won the most men's major golf championships, also known as majors (Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, The Open Championship (British Open) and US PGA Championship)?
44. Which film starring The Beatles concerned the theft of a ring from Ringo Starr by a religious organisation?
45. Which French novelist, critic and essayist is best known for his monumental "À la recherche du temps perdu" ("In Search of Lost Time"; or "Remembrance of Things Past" that was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927?
46. Woody Guthrie's life story is told in which of these books?
47. Lake Chad, the second largest wetland in Africa, is shared by the Republic of Chad, the Republic of Cameroon, Nigeria and which other country?
48. A QR, or quick response, barcode is a machine-readable label, and encodes virtually any type of data including the standardised modes of alphanumeric, binary, numeric and what other kind?
49. Broadly speaking what do geologists study?
50. Chocolate is the main flavour in which of these dishes?
51. From which country do the professional boxers, the Klitschko brothers originate?
52. Which American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994?
53. How many Popes were there in 1410?
54. A tour by a sporting group caused major unrest in their host country, 1971 in Australia and 1981 in New Zealand, leading to a state of emergency being declared during the tour. Which was the group?
55. Which of these types of music did not originate in the Caribbean?
56. Which is the only country outside Europe or Russia to have reached the semi-finals in the biennial World Men's Handball Championship?
57. Which of these describes food that originates from the Mississippi delta?
58. Where are the headquarters of the World Backgammon Association, founded in 2001?
59. Which of these is the name of the thread or string used to tie blood vessels at an operation?
60. After the murder of his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, Richard John Bingham disappeared on 8 November 1974, was presumed deceased on 11 December 1992 and declared legally dead in October 1999. By what name is he better known?
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