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General Knowledge Quiz 374 (60 MCQs)

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1. What colour does blue litmus paper turn when in contact with acid?
2. Who is the only person to receive 2 Oscars for the same role?
3. What is the medical description of the loss of hair from the head or body, sometimes to the extent of baldness?
4. The Sibe, or Xibu, people are some of the early and still present peoples of an area now known as what?
5. Which of these musical terms means the loudest?
6. What is the maximum number of players allowed on the field during a game of Rugby Sevens?
7. In early 2008, Yang Yun, an artistic gymnast who won two bronze medals at the 2000 Olympics, admitted on Chinese state-run television what fact about herself that interested the international press?
8. On 1 May 2010, where was a car bomb in a Nissan Pathfinder, which failed to ignite properly, disarmed with no casualties?
9. In 1997, who was appointed the first female US Secretary of State?
10. In Greek mythology, Croesus was known for what?
11. Which of these is NOT a "stem" ?
12. Which animal, exclusively carnivorous, mostly nocturnal, with eyeballs each the same size as its brain, lives only on the islands of south east Asia?
13. Angela Grisanti Vecchio, Stanley Zbornak, Clayton Hollingsworth and Salvadore Petrillo are characters in what US television series?
14. Which revered world figure celebrated his 95th birthday, in hospital, in July 2013?
15. Who became Roman emperor after the murder of Caligula, and, after the death of his wife, married his niece Agrippina, who poisoned him?
16. What is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies that consists mainly of psalms and is said at noon?
17. What was the name of the temporary harbours that were towed to the French coast to facilitate D Day landings on 5 and 6 June 1944?
18. In German games what are acorns, leaves, hearts and bells?
19. What was a major change in cricket in the 1760s, some 2 to 300 or more years after it was first played in the UK?
20. Which TV series starred Richard Dean Anderson as a secret agent for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles, who is able to solve a wide range of problems with his Swiss army knife?
21. Who had 2 hit records in his short career, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" & "Time in a Bottle" ?
22. The film, "The Girl in the Spider's Web", is based on a book by which author?
23. Which Irish born British admiral and hydrographer created a standard scale in 1805 by which naval officers could report wind speed?
24. Who was the first British monarch to be named "Empress of India" ?
25. Which two countries each claim to have invented the egg-white dessert known as a pavlova?
26. What is the name for a geometric figure with 3 sides?
27. The 11th, 12th and 13th holes of which golf course are referred to as "Amen Corner" ?
28. Who studies fish?
29. Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen worked for which newspaper?
30. The Jungfrau mountain is in which country?
31. Who launched a career with the book "Kitchen Confidential:Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly" ?
32. Who was president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during the decisions around holding the 2020 Summer Olympics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic?
33. The navy from which country destroyed the Russian fleet at Port Arthur after a number of attacks in 1904 and 1905?
34. What disease reached epidemic proportions in Haiti late in 2010?
35. Why was Chauvet Cave, discovered in the South of France in 1994, declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2014?
36. Which of these words is used on a menu to mean a thin slice of meat?
37. An American singer-songwriter, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, was nicknamed what (which was also the name of their last album, in 1971)?
38. Which British actor debuted on the West End stage in 1956 in "Look Back in Anger", a role he had originated at the Royal Court which made him a star, and made his film debut in 1960 in "The Entertainer" opposite Laurence Olivier?
39. What country was Ben Johnson representing when he was stripped of his gold medal at the 1988 Olympics for taking banned steroids?
40. What were T S Eliot's first names?
41. What is "lutein" ?
42. What is semolina made from?
43. The pas de deux "Urlicht" was the first dance choreographed by which later internationally influential person in the performance world?
44. The British TV channel launched in April 2022 was called what?
45. What was a "sawyer" ?
46. What form of singing involves an extended note which rapidly repeatedly changes in pitch from the chest register to falsetto, making a high-low-high-low sound?
47. What was the Congress of Berlin 1878 intended to achieve?
48. How many overs are played in Twenty20 cricket match?
49. The expressions "Richard of York gave battle, in vain", "Please excuse my dear aunt Sally" , "FANBOYS" , "soh cah toa" are what?
50. Elias James Corey was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for what?
51. What was unusual about the speech by IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch at the closing ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games, when he said "Well done Atlanta" and called the games "most exceptional" ?
52. Which of these is NOT released when wood burns?
53. A pair of angles is complementary if the sum of their measures is how many degrees?
54. Which band was about to perform on the Chateau Royal stage at the annual music festival Pukkelpop in Belgium on 18 August 2011, when a hurricane hit which killed 5 and injured several more?
55. According to the song, where did Molly Malone "wheel her wheelbarrow" ?
56. What sport is featured in the film "The Water Boy", starring Adam Sandler?
57. Sir George Benjamin's 2018 opera "Lessons in Love and Violence" follows the story and fallout of a relationship between whom?
58. Gene Kelly played Tommy Allbright in which 1954 film musical?
59. Memphis, Tennessee, lies in the river valley of which river?
60. Which alternative rock band was co-founded in 1989 in Limerick, Ireland, by lead singer Niall Quinn with brothers Mike and Noel Hogan and Fergal Lawler?
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