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General Knowledge Quiz 369 (60 MCQs)

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1. What most characterises mime performers?
2. What is the name of the bay on the shore of which Rio de Janeiro sits?
3. Who won most medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics?
4. Which highly contagious infection causes a roughening of the inner surface of the eyelids, which can lead to blindness?
5. The Walt Disney animated 1949 feature "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" is based on "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame and which other work?
6. On which island are 16 of Japan's 20 largest cities and Mount Fuji?
7. Which among these is the Zomia area considered to include?
8. Most South America countries export titanium, used in multiple applications worldwide including in strong, lightweight alloys for aerospace (jet engines, missiles, and spacecraft); which of those countries exports most (in $ value)?
9. Which of these went to the aid of the "Titanic" as she was sinking?
10. Who provided the voice of "Charlie" for Charlie's Angels in the original TV series and the films made in 2000 and 2003?
11. Which Olympic Games were the first to be telecast worldwide?
12. What characterises the soil known as peat?
13. What make of guitar did blues musician B.B. King usually play?
14. Pistol and Boo, who became internationally famous in 2015, were what?
15. Apollo Creed is the enemy of whom?
16. Which of these is a double-reed instrument with a range of over 3 1/2 octaves?
17. Which of these comes closest to the meaning of the French phrase "Haute cuisine" ?
18. Where was Ingrid Bergman born?
19. What name is given to lung-breathing aquatic mammals such as whales, porpoises and dolphins?
20. The 2006 Grammy Award for the Best Musical Theatre recording were John Du Prez & Eric Idle (producers & composers) and Eric Idle (lyricist) for which show?
21. What is the name of the Jamaican netball team?
22. What game, created in 1904 by a quaker, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Phillips, when revised by Charles Darrow and others became one of the world's most played commercial board games?
23. The lyrics for which of these shows were not written by Stephen Sondheim?
24. What is the name of the hall in which meetings of the Salvation Army are held?
25. What is the currency of Bolivia?
26. In a 1967 film Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway portrayed which famous couple?
27. When hair rises in reaction to cold or shock, the appearance of the skin is sometimes described as what?
28. What was organised by Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother, France, to crush the Huguenots in August 1572 at the wedding of Henry of Navarre to Marguerite, sister of Charles IX, that resulted in the death of around 30, 000 people?
29. General Stanley Allen McChrystal, who had led all forces in Afghanistan since 15 June 2009, was relieved of his command on 23 June 2010 after he made unflattering remarks about US presidential administration officials in an article in which magazine?
30. "Yabba dabba doo" was a catch-phrase in which cartoon series?
31. Broadly, what is the setting for Samuel Beckett's play "Happy Days" ?
32. Martha Graham is known as a pioneer of what?
33. Which regatta is a challenge-driven series of match races between two yachts?
34. Who does the character Sancho Panza accompany?
35. Which large, non-venomous snake found in South America and on Trinidad grows to around 23 feet (7.0 m) long, and is olive green with black blotches with orange-yellow striping on either side of the head?
36. In various English-speaking countries, a flag is flown at what is said to be half mast as a mark of respect or mourning; in the U.S. (on land) the gesture is known as half what?
37. Billy Bowden is an official in what sport?
38. Which of these is the name for a textbook of magic spells?
39. The small eggs in Ahuahutle, also known as Mexican caviar, come from ..... ?
40. "Runaway Jury" (2003), a film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz, is an adaption of the book by which author?
41. Which animal appeared in the opening credits of the British TV series "Coronation Street" ?
42. Which of these is a British medal instituted in 1918 awarded to officers and warrant officers of the Royal Air Force?
43. Erik the Red from Norway founded the first successful Norse settlement on Greenland, and then his son Leif continued the tradition of exploring west and landed where?
44. What town 16 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, dominated by the Puritans in the 17th century, was famous for its witchcraft trials?
45. The national flag of which country consists of just a horizontal red stripe top and bottom, and a white stripe across the centre?
46. What is the name of the front, slightly raised area, of a saddle?
47. Which Belgian novelist wrote the "Maigret" stories between 1930 and 1935?
48. The theatres for which war included Odessa, Yevpatoriya, Sevastopol, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Kinburn?
49. What does the acronym "DOA" mean?
50. The London 2012 Summer Olympics was remarkable, among other things, for what?
51. Which series ended on UK television in 1989 after a 26 year run, and returned in 2005?
52. The Sunda Trench is the deepest part of which ocean?
53. A 2018 film, a US-German co-production produced by Indian Paintbrush and American Empirical Pictures, focuses on the fallout from which virus epidemic?
54. The phrase "eyeball to eyeball" uses a figure of speech known as what?
55. What in the human body shows the effect of melanin?
56. Since the 1960s there has been guerilla warfare, invasion and political instability in Cyprus because of disputes between people of which two nationalities?
57. Whose name is associated with the theorem that states that kinetic energy equals increased relativistic mass multiplied by the speed of light squared?
58. Tetanus is known by what other name?
59. Dill is commonly used in what?
60. Big Ben, the bell installed in the clock tower for the British Houses of Parliament in 1856, was named after whom?
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