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General Knowledge Quiz 372 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of these people has never been a US Open Golf champion?
2. The fifth longest river in Africa, the Rhumel (or Ampsaga) River, runs through which country?
3. What is the main protein of connective tissue in animals and the most abundant protein in mammals, making up about 25% of the total protein content?
4. Which cricketer captained England to a record 54 test matches in 2001?
5. A fogou is what?
6. Who was "Sports Illustrated" magazine's first "Sportsman of the Year" ?
7. The "Saucy Jacky" postcard, received by Scotland Yard in 1888, was claimed to have been written by whom?
8. A statute passed by the General Court of Connecticut in the USA in 1783, under the title "An Act for the Encouragement of Literature and Genius" was the first in the USA to legislate for what?
9. What was the official mascot for the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea?
10. Which is one of the peaks of the Mahālangūr Himāl?
11. Which sport, played by 2 teams of 8 who use a rope, is marked with a "centre line" and two markings four metres either side of the centre line?
12. In Major League Baseball how many players are there on a team's roster?
13. A "shar pei" is a type of what?
14. For the four disciplines contested at the first FINA World Championships in Aquatics, in Yugoslavia, how many countries competed?
15. The US television serials "The Good Wife", "Canterbury's Law" and "ER" all have or have had which actor as one of the leads?
16. With what sport is Magic Johnson associated?
17. The father of Charlemagne, who was later to become a major force in Europe and Holy Roman Emperor, seized the Frankish throne from what dynasty in 751 CE?
18. How many feet (metres) above sea level is the great saline lake known as Salton Sea in California, USA?
19. The Montreal Biodome in Montreal allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas. What was the building originally constructed for?
20. Who compiled the 5 volume "The Canon of Medicine", completed in 1025 and still in use as a standard medical textbook through the 18th century in Europe?
21. Canaletto is famous for his 18th century paintings of which city?
22. What sort of fish is in the Scandinavian dish called gravlax?
23. Which of these places is furthest from Chicago, Illinois, USA?
24. What are most corals formed from?
25. What are the symbols on a standard playing card, the number of which show the value of the card, called?
26. What song contains the lyrics "Steak Knife, Caro Shark, Con Job, Boot Cut ", "Dog Town, Blood Bath, Rib Cage, Soft Tail", "Black Jack, Dope Dick, Pawn Shop, Quick Pick" and "Song Bird, Main Line, Cash Back, Hard top" ?
27. Which of these is an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary?
28. What is the name of the calms and light baffling winds in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans?
29. What is the feature on the Moon which is named after the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon, and the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body?
30. When in 680 CE a part of a nomadic warrior people moved to the northeastern Balkans, defeated the Byzantine army and secured recognition from the Byzantine Empire, that began what?
31. The Jewish King Solomon was the son of whom?
32. Isaac Kwame Amuah, who in December 2010 turned himself in to South African police to face extradition charges in relation to accusations of rape from 1993 while he was a lecturer in the US, has what connection to Nelson Mandela?
33. What was the nickname of Lawrence Peter Berra, a former Major League Baseball player and manager who played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972?
34. What is often shouted by the first person to have a full card in a game of bingo?
35. Which of these firms, founded in 1835, is a prestigious maker of hand-made sporting rifles and shotguns, based in London, England?
36. Which English village, which grew from a tiny fishing hamlet in 1864, was completely drowned due to coastal erosion by 1921?
37. What term is applied to an animal or plant produced by crossing two different varieties?
38. Why was the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion, not awarded in the 2004-05 season?
39. Which 19th century English writer wrote "Swallows and Amazons", "Peter Duck" and "Secret Water" ?
40. Steel bands originated in which country?
41. What links a type of footwear, the home of NATO, the best known military exploit of an early British Prime Minister, and the final days of freedom for a Corsican commander?
42. Ouidah on the coast of Benin, 40km (25 miles) from Benin's economic hub of Cotonou, is viewed as what?
43. Who is a British fashion designer, known for her work on pop art in fashion, who opened a clothes shop called Bazaar on London's Kings Road with her husband, Alexander Plunkett-Greene, and a former solicitor, Archie McNair, in November 1955?
44. Maurice Sendak's book "Where the Wild Things Are" is aimed at whom?
45. Which of these is a famous art gallery in New York City?
46. Olympic gold medallists Ian Fergusson and Danyon Loader represented which country?
47. When did "addiction" first enter the English language?
48. Where does "The Book of Revelation", the final book of the Christian Bible, indicate that it was written?
49. How many nouns are in the sentence "My mother and father visited my sister in Wellington" ?
50. Which of these was a famous horse belonging to the Duke of Wellington?
51. Which of these can mean a list of options for a computer program?
52. How does one tell a potentially winning cob or conker?
53. A colon is most used in which of these contexts?
54. The rings of which planet were first detected in 1980 but only identified in 1989 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft? .
55. Which film, starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen and Donald O'Connor, told the story of a silent film ("The Dashing Cavalier") being transformed during production into a musical ("The Dancing Cavalier")?
56. The first recording sighting of the Australian mainland and landfall by a European, was in 1606 by whom?
57. Which of these would not be included in international contests in the disciplines of Radiosport?
58. The musical "Oliver!" is associated with which geographical area?
59. Which bank, which had opened in 1762 (and was the oldest merchant bank in London) collapsed in 1995 after one of the bank's employees lost £827 million ($ 1.3 billion) speculating primarily on futures contracts?
60. How many apostrophes should be in the following sentence: "Andrews dogs licked their lips whenever Pavlovs bells rang to signal meal times" ?
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