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General Knowledge Quiz 368 (60 MCQs)

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1. Although neutral, Switzerland maintains military forces. In 1995, which of these was NOT one?
2. What fuels the energy, and brightness, of stars?
3. In Greek legend, Narcissus was famous for which of the following?
4. The habitat of red pandas includes central China and where else?
5. Before becoming president of the USA, why did Hiram Ulysses Grant change his name to Ulysses S. Grant?
6. Which is the largest of the world's deserts?
7. Which English author and model, the grand-daughter of author Roald Dahl, actress Patricia Neal and actor Stanley Holloway, married singer and pianist Jamie Cullum in 2010?
8. Dayaks are native to what area?
9. What is a style of delivery mostly used in operas, oratorios, and cantata, in which a singer adopts the rhythms of ordinary speech?
10. Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson had a hit with which song in 1985?
11. What does Cagliari refer to?
12. If a word or phrase is deictic, it ..... ?
13. The R & B album "Girl You Know It's True" brought a 1990 Grammy Award for Best New Artist to which German band?
14. In which city's opera house does The Phantom lurk?
15. The BWF World Championships are for what sport?
16. What or who does a cloaca serve?
17. What was the title of Quentin Crisp's autobiography published in 1968?
18. In 1936, whose paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" proved that a machine could perform any conceivable mathematical computation if it were able to be represented as an algorithm?
19. Which of these countries is not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations?
20. The "Big Day Out" was what?
21. How many events were competed at the first World Championships in Athletics?
22. When Sir Edmund Hillary earned newspaper acclaim in 1953 in relation to Mt Everest what was he doing?
23. Who threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference on 14 December 2008?
24. In 2012 the X Games were held in the USA, together with Games at Tignes in France and Shanghai in China. Which of the following had not yet hosted an X Games?
25. The Belgian Revolution of 1830-31 resulted in the secession of Belgium from what country?
26. Fort Knox, home to the US Bullion Depository (the US gold reserves), the US Army Armor Center and the US Army Armor School, is in which state?
27. What language does the colloquialism "shufti" come from?
28. What chemical element with atomic number 55 is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of 28 $^\circ$C (83 $^\circ$F), and one of only five metals that are liquid at or near room temperature?
29. "Monkey bread" is the fruit of what tree, indigenous to the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to northern South Africa and Madagascar?
30. A drink dating from the 15th century and popular through to the 17th, was regarded as a health-giving drink and good for fevers. It contained curdled milk, sugar, spices and ale or other alcohol; what was it called?
31. Until the year 2000, how many US presidents had previously served as vice president?
32. What is the name for the decrease in size of tissue or an organ due to physiological change from old age, or lack of use, nutrition or nerve supply?
33. The uninhabited Malgas Island, or Bird Island, off the Western Cape of South Africa, is the largest breeding colony in the world of what?
34. In Japanese cuisine, what are "udons" ?
35. As the oceanic Pacific Plate subducts beneath the continental Okhotsk Plate, what does this create?
36. "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live", attributed to Socrates 5th century BCE, is an example of what figure of speech?
37. In 2015 Sebastian Coe, Baron Coe, became President of what international body?
38. The first Canadian province to adopt one of these officially was Nova Scotia in 1955, and now all provinces and territories (except Nunavut) and Cape Breton Island have officially adopted a ..... what?
39. Cabinda on the west Atlantic coast of Africa is, although controversially, an exclave of which country?
40. What usually powers the spray action of paint spray cans in the 21st century?
41. Who painted two versions of "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" in 1890?
42. Which of these is a nickname for the Sydney Harbour Bridge?
43. Which country was established in 1822 by the American Colonization Society (A.C.S.)?
44. What long bone in the arm that runs from the shoulder to the elbow to connect the scapula and the lower arm consists of 3 sections?
45. What is the most abundant element in the universe?
46. Which fictional character was created by Robert E Howard?
47. What is a link between the films "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953) and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy (2001-2003) based J.R.R. Tolkien's saga?
48. A team from which country won the World Elephant Polo Association world championship from 2004 to 2007?
49. Where are sculptures of Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis carved into the side of a mountain?
50. Which of these is an important date in the US election process?
51. Where is the Louvre?
52. Who won the FIFA World Cup for Association Football in Germany in 2006?
53. What international yachting regatta organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, competed for between 3 boats for each national team, based at Cowes on the Isle of Wight off southern England, was a biennial event from 1957 to 1999?
54. The flag of which country is sometimes nicknamed the "auriverde" ?
55. Cryosurgery is performed under what conditions?
56. Endeavour Strait runs between which two pieces of land?
57. Which organisation holds the annual Golden Globe Awards?
58. Singapore is connected to the mainland by a causeway that runs across which stretch of water?
59. In 1954, the US Department of Defence established what song as the official musical tribute to the president of the USA?
60. What did the US penny, or cent, carry on its obverse when it was first minted in its current form in 1909?
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