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General Knowledge Quiz 375 (60 MCQs)

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1. When were referees first recorded as officially called for in the written rules in a game of football (soccer)?
2. Which bird became extinct in the 17th century?
3. What tree and its fruit is also known as the butter pear and alligator pear?
4. The men travelling as whose crew were the first known humans to reach and cross the Antarctic Circle in 1773?
5. Which island nation with a population in 2023 of just over 565, 000 adheres to Islam as its state religion?
6. What is the next in this series:St. Devote, Massenet, Casino Square, Mirabeau, Loews ..... ?
7. "Five card brag" is a simplified version of what game?
8. What was the effect of the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki?
9. Which of these regions houses one of the largest wetland areas in Europe?
10. A holiday on 25 March in Greece celebrates the final recognition of Greece as an independent nation following the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. What year did this happen?
11. In the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments", who played Moses?
12. Rachel Heyhoe Flint captained which English team from 1966 to 1978?
13. Where do the Puelche winds blow?
14. The city of St Petersburg is close to which of these?
15. What forces or countries were involved in the War of the Pacific?
16. What does Voltaire's high-born character Cunégonde become in the course of his book "Candide" ?
17. Leon Trotsky, who had been Russia's foreign secretary from 1918 under Lenin, was exiled to Siberia in 1927 after Lenin's death. How did he die?
18. On a state visit to Britain in 2003, US President Bush was welcomed by a salute of how many guns?
19. Who starred in the 1998 Woody Allen film "Celebrity" ?
20. What complex of artificial biological environments near St Blazey and St Austell in Cornwall was opened to the public in 2001?
21. What was the last foreign invasion of Britain?
22. In which book do the Houyhnhnms first appear?
23. The lyric "We could get married, and then we'd be happy" is from which song?
24. Which of these mountain ranges is not found in New Guinea?
25. Who wrote the lyrics to Burt Bacharach's music for the songs including "The Look of Love", "Walk on By", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "This Guy's in Love with You" and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" ?
26. Who were Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh and Sporty?
27. Roughly speaking what are the dates to which the term "prehistory" is applied?
28. What technique is used to produce macramé?
29. Which career soldier and inventor was personally thanked by the Duke of Wellington after the battle of Waterloo for the effect of one of his inventions?
30. Which supertanker carrying 120, 000 tons of crude oil was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall, England in March 1967, resulting in Blackburn Buccaneer planes dropping forty-two 1, 000lb bombs on it?
31. How could a pot of liquid which is boiling over be described?
32. Apart from handlers who or what compete in the sport of flyball?
33. What is the official residence of the Vice President of the USA?
34. Two of the three tallest mountain peaks in Africa are in which country?
35. What is another name for sodium bicarbonate?
36. The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands are part of what island grouping?
37. Which English civil engineer's most famous project was the construction of Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London?
38. Which country would you go to in order to find the main headwaters of the Amazon River?
39. Which of these countries has the largest land area?
40. Christian Bale was born in what country?
41. Which of these lies between the Andes and the Chilean Coast Range?
42. Which of these flags does not have stars on it?
43. Which film, directed by David Lean and starring John Mills, opens with an escaped convict grabbing hold of a boy in a graveyard?
44. Which of these is a bone in the wrist?
45. Which of these was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, and author of the largest-selling economics textbook of all time: "Economics:An Introductory Analysis", first published in 1948, that explained the principles of Keynesian economics?
46. The 1966 anthology of caricatures "World of Hirschfeld" includes a drawing called "Nina's Revenge" which contains what?
47. What was the "job" referred to in the UK TV series "No Job For a Lady" (1990-92 ), in which Dame Penelope Keith starred with Mark Kingston and Nigel Humphreys?
48. Where would a tympanum, anvil and hammer be found together?
49. Mary Quant became famous in the 1960s for designing what?
50. What is unusual about the flag of Nepal?
51. Hunchun in China has what trading advantage?
52. Celadon is a shade of what colour?
53. In what year did a woman first qualify and race in the Indianapolis 500?
54. Where does the mite that causes demodicosis lodge in the mammal it affects?
55. In the Bible, who was the apostle chosen by the remaining 11 to replace Judas Iscariot following his betrayal of Jesus and suicide?
56. The peacock belongs to which family of birds?
57. According to ancient sources, the principal ingredient of absinthe was sometimes used medically to do what?
58. When was curling first played as a Winter Olympic sport?
59. What was the name given to the largest alluvial gold nugget discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, Victoria, Australia on 5 February 1869?
60. When is the annual five day Diwali Festival celebrated?
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