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General Knowledge Quiz 367 (60 MCQs)

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1. The theatres for which war included North Africa, the Philippines, Italy, Germany and Crete?
2. What was broadcast in 2012 on Fox News Channel's Studio B which caused it to issue an on-air apology almost immediately afterwards?
3. What was the name of the spacecraft which created history on 12 November 2014 and landed a probe on a comet?
4. Which one of these fungi might be safe to eat without ill effect?
5. Which of earth's oceans holds the most water?
6. As which part of a meal is panna cotta more likely to be eaten?
7. Which of these is a model who was born in New Zealand?
8. In England, what is commonly known as "The Old Bailey" ?
9. Which English King assented to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, Surrey, England, in 1215?
10. What 1966 Broadway musical was based on Fellini's film "Nights of Cabiria" ?
11. What is the radius of a circle whose area is 154 square inches?
12. Who is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated?
13. Breadcrumbs are the outermost layer of which dish?
14. Where is air hockey played?
15. The name My Lai was associated in 1968 with what?
16. Who was defence counsel at the Oz conspiracy trial in 1971 and defended the Sex Pistols in a 1977 obscenity trial over the title of their album "Never Mind The Bollocks" ?
17. When was the Warsaw Pact formed?
18. After years of protest demanding a separate state for Marathi-speaking people in India, with the argument that they had a distinct language, culture and history, Bombay State was split into two new states, one being Maharashtra. When did this happen?
19. In England, the Estates of the Realm are the Clergy, the Lords and the Commons. What is known as the "Fourth Estate" ?
20. In a lonely hearts advertisement, what does "GSOH" mean?
21. What is another term for an "ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms" ?
22. Interference patterns produced when an opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern, are called what?
23. Most of which of these games is spent handling "tiles" ?
24. Who directed Heath Ledger's last film?
25. To play craps, players need an appropriately marked up board, chips and what else?
26. Between 1987 and 2006, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, Mahendra Chaudhry, Laisenia Qarase, Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, George Speight and Ratu Josefa Iloilo were involved in the politics of which country?
27. Rugby union was included in 4 Olympic Games between 1900 and 1924. Which team won the most gold medals for it in that period?
28. Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the lira as its basic currency unit?
29. Which is another name for the game variously called taca taca, kicker, baby-foot, langirt and futillo?
30. In the 1880s Georges Seurat and Paul Signac pioneered what meticulous and precise method of painting?
31. What are the traditional words used to vote in the British House of Lords?
32. "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise" is the motto of which daily newspaper?
33. Who was the first Pope to be born in the 20th century?
34. Which of these is a play based on the story of Thomas More, the 16th-century Chancellor of England, by Robert Bolt?
35. The line "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" is spoken by which Shakespearean character?
36. Where did an icthyosaurus live?
37. Which of these was a singer and band leader who died at the Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia on 25 December 2006 from congestive heart failure resulting from complications of pneumonia?
38. What is the name of the island of land in the East End of London that is bounded on three sides by one of the largest meanders in the River Thames, with the West India Docks to the north?
39. What was an action by the USA immediately after acquiring the Philippines from Spain in 1898?
40. Why did NFL player Colin Kaepernick sit through the singing of the national anthem before some games in 2016?
41. A chemist uses titration to do what?
42. What science features in "The Man In The White Suit", a 1951 film starring Alec Guinness?
43. What quality does a person described as sedulous have?
44. Which body of water adjoins the Republic of the Niger?
45. In which century was the Hindu temple complex of Angkor Wat built?
46. Which novelist is best known for his short stories, many of which were written as a result of his experiences in the Franco-Prussian War?
47. Which of these can be found in a kind of British architecture?
48. "Overwhelm" is a word met reasonably often; what can "whelm" mean?
49. Guinness Book of Records claimed that which of these was the most watched TV series of all time?
50. Which German mathematician and scientist, sometimes called the "Prince of Mathematicians", completed "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae", in 1798 at the age of 21?
51. What is not true to say of the bog myrtle?
52. What are Omo I and Omo II, discovered by Richard Leakey in southern Ethiopia?
53. Which are the first two African countries to have sites declared as World Heritage Sites?
54. Which of these was a world heavyweight boxing champion?
55. T S Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" (1939) formed the basis for which long-running musical show?
56. What relationship were the Myers and Briggs who developed the personality tests known as Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?
57. What is the next in this series:Millie, Ranger, Buddy, Spot "Spotty" Fletcher, Barney, Miss Beazley ..... ?
58. Where did the cartoon character "Casper" first appear?
59. Which of these is an acute infectious fever characterised by a rash which, after going through stages, dries up and leaves permanent scarring?
60. What is a clavicle?
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