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General Knowledge Quiz 37 (60 MCQs)

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1. What territory was sold by Russia under Tsar Alexander II in 1867, for about 1.9¢ per acre ($ 4.74/km2), a total of US$ 7.2 million?
2. Which of these is one of the 7 letters used by the Romans to signify numbers?
3. The Olympic torch travelled within South Korea in the 2018 Winter Olympics by ways including sailboat, marine cable car, zip-wire, steam train, marine rail bike, yacht and a replica of what specialised antique warship?
4. US baseball player Pete Rose was accused in 1989 of (and he confessed in 2004 to) what, that has made him ineligible to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
5. Thomas Hughes wrote about the schooldays of which of the Browns?
6. A full moon or a new moon at or close to its perigee (the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit) is often called what?
7. Which of these is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source?
8. Who wrote the 6 "Brandenburg Concertos" ?
9. Where was the TV series Stargate-SG1 filmed?
10. In astronomy, what is the word applied to the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line?
11. Tofu is made by coagulating what, and compacting the resulting curds into blocks?
12. In which sport is the Currie Cup offered?
13. Which of these is a master woodcarver, famous for his work with Christopher Wren?
14. At the 1992 Winter Olympic Games, New Zealand skier Annelise Coberger became the first what?
15. The name of Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula commemorates a landing in 1915 by what or who?
16. Ramón Emeterio Betances, Segundo Ruiz Belvis and Francisco Ramírez Medina were revolutionaries who attempted to free Puerto Rico from rule by which country?
17. What was the favourite food of Jiggs, one of the lead characters in the comic strip "Bringing Up Father" that was created by George McManus and ran from January 1913 to May 2000?
18. Which English poet, dramatist, and art historian, a pioneer in the European study of Far Eastern painting wrote the memorial ode to dead soldiers of World War I, "For the Fallen" (1914)
19. The song "Love is All Around" by Wet Wet Wet featured on the soundtrack for which 1994 film?
20. George Gershwin wrote a piece of music called "Rhapsody in ..... " what?
21. What does large-scale thermohaline circulation drive?
22. What sort of animal is a salamander?
23. What does the parotid gland produce?
24. The first Summer Olympics to be held in Canada were held in what city?
25. What sent back the first pictures of the moon's surface by video?
26. What object, containing 14 lines of hieroglyphs, 32 of demotic and 54 of Greek, was a key to deciphering writing from ancient Egypt?
27. What nickname was given to German Chancellor Otto Van Bismarck?
28. Which fermented liquid condiment used for flavouring, especially of grilled meats (and also used as an ingredient in cocktails and drinks) was first made by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins?
29. Who wrote the music for the musical "Cats" ?
30. In "Psycho", who played the character of Marion Crane?
31. Who, after splitting from a long term girlfriend in 2008, briefly dated actress Kate Hudson, and in 2012 was dating Serbian tennis star Ana Ivanovic?
32. Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum. Who did the plant get its name from?
33. Which of these cities is furthest south?
34. If A = 1, B = 2 and so on, what number would represent BEECH?
35. The semi-arid region called the Sahel separates what from the rest of southern Africa?
36. By the time of Julius Caesar a century, which was the body commanded in the first instance by a centurion in the Roman army, consisted of how many soldiers?
37. What is the name of the arts programme made for British television from 1978 that is identified with Melvyn Bragg?
38. When was the athletics event known as the marathon first included for competition in the modern Olympic Games?
39. Which of these is a phrase meaning "free to go where or act as one pleases" ?
40. Which pioneer of molecular gastronomy is also the founder and proprietor of 3-Michelin-star restaurant "The Fat Duck" in Berkshire, England?
41. Where are the Comoros, or the Comoro Islands?
42. Which 1936 children's book was labelled a pacifist manifesto, banned at the time in Spain, burned as propaganda in Nazi Germany, but granted privileged status by Stalin as the only non-communist children's book allowed in Poland?
43. At 8.5 million square km, and covering 5.5% of the earth's surface, what is the world's largest desert?
44. Which of these is an actor who suffers from Parkinson's disease?
45. "The Other Side of the Wind", released in 2018 by Netflix from production companies Americas Film Conservancy, Les Films de L'Astrophore, Royal Road Entertainment and SACI, was directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited by whom?
46. What was the first airship to cross the Atlantic, in 1919?
47. What term is not used to describe the fruit of the coffee tree?
48. Kailash Satyarthi, who was joint winner of 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, was renowned as what?
49. As at 2010, which team had played the most seasons of professional baseball games without winning the World Series, with their last win in 1908?
50. What links the TV shows Threshold and Ultra, and the televised version of a book series by G Martin?
51. Why was the Olympic flag raised upside down at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia?
52. Which of these territories did not pass to the control of the USA as part of the Treaty of Paris following the Spanish-American War of 1898?
53. In what sport would you use a niblick?
54. How many signs of the Zodiac are human?
55. What would you expect to find in "The Cloisters", Upper Manhattan, New York City, USA, an art museum administered by The Metropolitan Museum of Art?
56. What does term "monorchid" describe?
57. What is a high-powered vacuum tube that generates microwaves using the interaction of a stream of electrons with a magnetic field?
58. Which of these is not one of the four main divisions of the Stone Age?
59. Pippin, Haralson, Honeygold, Honeycrisp and Bramley are varieties of what?
60. In 645 CE the Emperor Kōtoku in Japan designed and implemented a set of doctrines called what?
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