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General Knowledge Quiz 370 (60 MCQs)

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1. During the production of the Disney animated feature "Fantasia", what nickname was given by the animation department to the unnamed sorcerer in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment?
2. Where is Le Touquet?
3. The Strait of Otranto is the narrow passage between which two bodies of water?
4. In the nursery rhyme, who could eat no fat, and whose wife could eat no lean?
5. Who was the criminal released by Pilate in preference to Jesus on the demand of the Jerusalem mob?
6. Which Scottish architect, buried in Westminster Abbey, is famous for staircases, fireplaces, chimney pieces, and furniture built in residences in the 18th century?
7. Which of these is an example of the law of conservation of momentum?
8. What religion is the Dalai Lama?
9. Which planet has a diameter of 7, 520 miles (12, 104 km) and a mass 0.82 times that of the Earth?
10. How many countries border Brazil?
11. 11 November is marked in many countries as Remembrance Day, Poppy Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and civilians in time of war. Why has that date been selected?
12. The Sunken Valley off the south-west coast of Tasmania, and coastal Fiordland on the south-west coast of Aotearoa New Zealand share what quality?
13. Where would a fatberg be found?
14. Which is closest to the prevailing climate in Mongolia?
15. Who succeeded Sir William Howe as Commander in Chief of the British forces in 1778 during the American War of Independence?
16. When was the first written record of the name which British Honduras chose when it became independent from the UK in 1981?
17. Which of these has had a distinct National Olympic Committee since 1950 and competed at the Olympic Games from 1952, although it has been only a colony and a "region", but never a nation?
18. In Britain in World War II, where did "land girls" work?
19. In 2020 the International Olympics Committee approved what sport, which had been included in the 2018 Youth Olympics, for inclusion also in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris?
20. In which country did Juan Domingo Peron seize power in 1943, become president, and resign in 1955?
21. An annual rodeo, exhibition and festival first held in 1912 and named the Stampede, is now held every July, where?
22. Which musical term means "Slow" ?
23. Which is a trait common to a platypus, slow loris, and shrew?
24. After his retirement from athletics in 2017 sprinter Usain Bolt trained in and played a new sport with a club based where?
25. What activity became legal in The Republic of Ireland when the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was passed in 1995?
26. On what or whom was the 1983 Australian film "Phar Lap" based?
27. When were The Yeomen of the Guard (Beefeaters) established in England?
28. By what name is David Evans better known?
29. When the golfer Bryson DeChambeau won the PGA Tour's US Open 2024 he was also which of these?
30. Where is the Serra da Capivara National Park, notable for multiplicity of plant formations, landscapes of breathtaking beauty, and one of the most important archaeological sites in the Americas, established in 1979?
31. According to the children's tale, what was the name of the Three Billy Goats?
32. What is Spartacus famous for doing?
33. When was the bridge celebrated in the French nursery song new?
34. What kind of animation was used for the pilot episode, though not for the subsequent series, in the US TV series "South Park" ?
35. What defines a species?
36. What did Christian Huygens devise in 1657?
37. Capri is an island near which city?
38. When the Amazon River flows across Brazil, where does it do so?
39. The Nobel Peace Prize winner for 2010 lived in which country?
40. By what nickname was Janis Joplin known?
41. Björn Frantzén, at one time a footballer, now an entrepreneur, fends off occasional international comparisons with a character from which internationally famous TV series?
42. To traduce someone is to do what?
43. At the 1963 Oscars, Best Picture winner Tom Jones became the only film in history to do which of these?
44. What traditional sport was banned in Britain in 2004?
45. What is the capital of San Marino?
46. Who escaped to the Isle of Skye, assisted by Flora MacDonald?
47. The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis culminated on 11 November with the removal of which Australian Labour Party Prime Minister by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, and the appointment of the Leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser, as caretaker Prime Minister?
48. The testimony of midwives specifically is sought by the Roman Catholic Church to establish what?
49. Who, it is said, did similar deals with Dr Faustus, Robert Johnson and Niccolò Paganini?
50. Who won the 2010 Nobel prize for chemistry for their work in the 1960s & 1970s to find ways to bond carbon atoms (such as palladium-catalysed cross coupling)?
51. What sport is featured in "Invictus", a 2009 film directed by Clint Eastwood?
52. Which of these is an American motorcycle manufacturer founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century?
53. Who wrote "Puck Of Pooks Hill", "Soldiers Three", the "Just So Stories" and "Stalky & Co" ?
54. Which painter, born in Delft, produced works including "The Woman With A Water Jug", "The Pianist" and "The Lacemaker" ?
55. Which set of 19 piano pieces based on folk themes were composed by Franz Liszt between 1846 and 1885 and named after his homeland?
56. What is the name for a person who works in a science laboratory testing in pre-and post-analytic phases and preparing samples or specimens?
57. Direct rule by the British Crown in India from 1858 to 1947 was preceded by the dissolution of what?
58. Which of these words refers to a name used to hide an individual's real identity?
59. Which inert gas with a density 2.8 that of air was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1895?
60. Oneiromancy is a form of divination and prediction based on what?
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