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General Knowledge Quiz 376 (60 MCQs)

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1. What was the name of the line of fortification that ran across Italy during World War II from just north of where the Garigliano River flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, through the Apennine Mountains to the mouth of the Sangro River on the Adriatic coast in the east via Monte Cassino and Monte Cairo?
2. What is the most likely use for a privet shrub?
3. What is one aspect which singles out the Indus River from other rivers in Pakistan?
4. Who were the father and son who appeared in Cecil B DeMille's 1957 epic film "The Ten Commandments" ?
5. What game has as its object getting a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) across a horizontal table past wooden pins into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs without knocking the pegs over?
6. Which of these whales is the largest toothed animal?
7. A bagel is a type of what?
8. What trading company was a major influence on the growth of the city Gothenburg in Sweden during the 18th and early 19th centuries?
9. Which of these is a type of international code?
10. Prior to its annexation by the USA in 1898, Hawaií had been a republic for about four years. What was it immediately before that?
11. The first successful public operation under which anaesthetic was carried out at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846 by William Morton?
12. Which of these is the oldest known complex scientific calculator, sometimes called the first analogue computer?
13. The tiny area of Walvis Bay (a deep harbour) and the Penguin Islands in Namibia were under the control of which other country until 1994?
14. At which battle, which began on 4 May 1942, were Japanese losses at least 7 warships, with over 20 others damaged, and USA losses included the aircraft carrier "Lexington" and two other ships?
15. Which of these is an Australian state that is all on one island?
16. New Zealand author Margaret Mahy is known for writing what?
17. In the 1950s, what was Jersey Joe Walcott known for?
18. The word "meow", or "miaou", is an example of what?
19. Who has been married to golfer Greg Norman?
20. What nationality was astronomer Tycho Brahe?
21. Who plays Preston Burke in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy" ?
22. What is the first element on the periodic table?
23. Which of these is the name of the smallest Canadian province?
24. Mariachi bands originated in which country?
25. The smallest internationally recognised country on mainland Africa is completely surrounded, apart from its sea border, by what other country?
26. Which country is the biggest producer of corn?
27. Where does linseed oil come from?
28. Where and when were the first Games held that were eventually to be known as the Commonwealth Games?
29. Which of these is an ancient stringed musical instrument, belonging to the chordophone family?
30. What does the Fermi Paradox refer to?
31. When simulated single cell automata (simple programs) interact to produce complex, seemingly intelligent outcomes without following specific recipes, this is a development from what?
32. Where would ground-effect vehicles be used?
33. Who was nominated for an Academy Award for his animated film "Shrek" ?
34. James Reese Europe was a leading early 20th century exponent of what?
35. What word is commonly used in North America to mean "soup" ?
36. How much treacle was there in the nursery rhyme "Pop! Goes the Weasel" ?
37. Which female impersonator, Daniel Carroll, whose career began in 1945 and whose most famous role was in the lead of a major production of "Hello, Dolly!", died in June 2009?
38. Which of these is a novel by Ernest Hemingway, set in Spain?
39. What colour is used to describe Sagittarius A*?
40. What gives the game of crib, or cribbage, its name?
41. What was the venue for the first Olympic Games to be held in South America since the first Games in Athens in 1896?
42. Which was the first Olympic Games in which Bhutan participated?
43. In the UK in 1926 there was a General Strike that attempted to improve working conditions for which occupational group?
44. What style of French painting, influenced by Flemish and Dutch Baroque and Italian styles, with schools developed around Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens, was practised by Georges de la Tour, Simon Vouet, and the Le Nain brothers?
45. What city is known to its inhabitants as "auld reekie" ?
46. The instruments in a woodwind, or wind, quintet usually comprise a transverse flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and which other?
47. Which of these animals has hooves?
48. Which is, in British slang, a word for a contemptible or obnoxious person?
49. The system known as DOHC is installed in what?
50. The Bangkok Club System has been used in several world championship tournaments in what card game?
51. Where in Britain is "The Millennium Stadium" ?
52. He trained as a palaeontologist and geologist, but Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) is more widely known as what?
53. When was the first aircraft brought down by another in the course of World War I?
54. In which country were elections planned for 1991 stopped by the military (leading to civil war), were held in 1995, and, in 1999, after a series of short-term military leaders, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected president?
55. What distinguishes a bearded vulture, or ossifrage?
56. What is the function of the organisation which from 2009 to 2017 was known as SportAccord?
57. Serena Williams, who had not advanced past the quarterfinals at the French Open between 2003 and 2009, lost to whom in the quarterfinals 6-3, 6-7(2), 8-6, in 2010?
58. What are Argon, Helium, Radon, Neon and Xenon?
59. Damask is a variety of which of these?
60. The US Civil War was fought between the Union Army and which other?
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