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General Knowledge Quiz 371 (60 MCQs)

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1. The astronauts on the International Space Station speak several different languages both between themselves and to people on Earth; what language or languages are seen as official on the Station?
2. When did the term "bootlegger" or "bootleg" (relating to liquor) gain currency?
3. Which of these is a tree disease spread by beetles?
4. Whose autobiography was entitled "Step Inside Love" ?
5. American playwright, songwriter and early inductee into America's Songwriters Hall of Fame, Rida Johnson Young, was famous for "Italian Street Song" and "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" from which operetta, for which she wrote the book and lyrics?
6. The Reichenbach Falls are in which country?
7. Electric Christmas tree lights were first used in what year?
8. What song by Kings of Leon gave them their first number 1 single in the UK, charting at the top-spot on digital downloads alone, before its physical release?
9. What was the only painting that Vincent van Gogh sold while he was alive?
10. Who caused the crash of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, near Cayucos, California, USA on 7 December 1987, shooting the pilots and killing all 43 people on board?
11. What happened on 9 October 1870 in Italy following a plebiscite?
12. Wackford Squeers, headmaster of "Dotheboys Hall", appears in which book by Charles Dickens?
13. What is the substance that causes irritation from a sting by a nettle or an ant?
14. In WCF, an international body formed in 1989 which is associated among other things with the MacRobertson Shield, what does the "C" stand for?
15. How are insulin injections delivered?
16. Who wrote the music for the ballets "The Firebird", "Petrushka", and "The Rite of Spring" ?
17. The Australian city of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, is on which river?
18. What metal marks a 10th wedding anniversary?
19. A series of science fiction books by American writer Anne McCaffrey follows a population which lives with dragons and their riders on a planet called by the acronym "Pern" . What does the "n" stand for?
20. Prithvi Narayan, Jung Bahadur Rana, King Mahendra, King Birendra, and King Gyanendra were all political leaders of which country?
21. Where was the sporting code known as rugby league started?
22. Which of these is a precious stone made of pure carbon?
23. Who makes casks and barrels?
24. Who wrote the music for the musical (and later, film) "Cabaret" ?
25. Who wrote the music for the ballet "Swan Lake" ?
26. Which New Zealand-born and New York-based artist, known for his kinetic sculpture produced between 1950 and 1980, also made films, applying dyes, stencils, air-brushes and other objects directly to celluloid?
27. What card game, played usually between 2 players or teams who try to build up collections of cards of the same value, uses 2 packs with 2 additional jokers?
28. The formula for World Rally Championship cars changed for the 2011 championship, with engines limited to how many litres?
29. Which of these is a work by Dante?
30. Mahatma Gandhi led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with what 400 km (249 mile) journey in 1930?
31. What type of opera is Puccini's Gianni Schicchi?
32. Between 1966 and 1974 France had a stronger than usual link with Mururoa Atoll and Fangataufa in French Polynesia. What was it?
33. Which of these people was born first?
34. If a uranium or similar target is bombarded, what is a term for the neutrons which it ejects?
35. What device is used to regulate a person's heart rate?
36. By what name was Rocco Francis Marchegiano, heavyweight boxing world champion from September 1952 to April, 1956 better known?
37. What is Wade-Giles?
38. What name for an army unit composed of New Zealand and Australian troops was applied to them in World War I?
39. Which of these is native to South America?
40. What is next in the sequence:Lima, Quito, Bogota ..... ?
41. As at 2022, who has won the most medals in Olympic Games since the modern Olympics began in 1896?
42. Which wars, from 1839 to 1842 and 1856 to 1860, were due to Britain smuggling goods from India into China in defiance of China's laws?
43. What organisation financed Henry Hudson's voyage when he explored much of what is now Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay in 1610?
44. What is apiphobia the fear of?
45. Who wrote "A History of Richard III" and "Utopia" ?
46. In 2016 Dubai, UAE, hosted the first international Grand Prix in what discipline?
47. Taiko are used in music of what kind?
48. The semi-autobiographical Canadian French language films "1981, or the year I became a liar", "1987" and "1991" trace events in the life of the director from the age of 11. Who is he?
49. Where would a catafalque be used?
50. How many languages does Bolivia recognise as official languages?
51. What type of show is the US/Canada TV series Stargate SG-1?
52. In 1991 talks between North and South Korea resulted in what?
53. Fashion designer Ozwald Boateng specialises in what?
54. The 2014 Man Booker Prize, the first to be open to any full length novel written in the English language and not just to those from the UK Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe, was awarded in October to which writer?
55. What was entertainment promoter Bill Graham's rock palace in operation from March 1968 to June 1971 at Second Avenue at East Sixth Street, New York City, New York, in the East Village area of the borough of Manhattan?
56. In 2015 pop artist Taylor Swift won a disagreement over pay with what organisation?
57. African and Indian elephants have a different number of nails on their feet. Respectively, they are ..... ?
58. Ronald Ross won a Nobel prize in medicine for his work on what subject?
59. What is an unusual aspect of Jacquemart Island, part of the Campbell Islands?
60. Which of these is a type of melon?
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