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General Knowledge Quiz 378 (60 MCQs)

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1. After a plague in 1633, in which German town did the villagers vow to present a living representation of Christ's Passion every tenth year?
2. What language was most likely to have spoken in the countryside along the Canal du Midi, at that time the Canal Royal en Languedoc, when it was first constructed in 1666 to 1681?
3. In a match between a top-ranked (9-dan) champion player and a machine, in a board game described as having more possible configurations for its pieces than atoms in the observable universe, when did a machine win?
4. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the US Constitution sets out 3 main qualifications for someone to be eligible for president:a natural born citizen of the USA, at least 35 years old, and which other?
5. Serendib, or Serendip, is one of the former names of which country?
6. A job that is abbreviated to ASM is in what field?
7. Adele Laurie Blue Adkins MBE is internationally known as what?
8. The Naga Peace Accord, signed on 3 August 2015, was between representatives of the people of Nagaland and which country?
9. What is the name of the test cricket venue in Leeds, England?
10. In 2008, the game of Cluedo was updated as "Cluedo Reinvention" with some new weapons. Which one of these was in the original game?
11. Which of these games did Nintendo publish in 2017, at about the same time as the new Nintendo Switch was released?
12. Spaniards Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Francisco de Orellana and Lope de Aguirre, Portuguese Pedro Teixeira and Antônio Raposo Tavares o Velho, and Frenchman Charles Marie de La Condamine were involved in the exploration of what area?
13. What is the second shortest song released on a "proper" Beatles album?
14. The expression "many a mickle makes a muckle" is closest to which of these?
15. What river forms the boundary between Indiana and Kentucky?
16. What saline basin in Central Asia, once the world's fourth largest lake with an area of 68, 000 square kilometres (26, 000 sq miles), has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s when the rivers feeding it were diverted by irrigation projects?
17. Where was the French open tennis championship held in 1928?
18. Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north are known as what?
19. In what language does the word "taonga" mean "treasure" or "treasured possession" ?
20. Mathematicians or code breakers from what country were the first to break the codes in the Enigma machines used by the German military from the 1920s to the 1940s?
21. What material is the narwhal's horn?
22. How does a traditional military bugler change pitch?
23. Where was film actor James Mason born?
24. The Books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are collectively known as what?
25. What was the occupation of the George Eliot character of Silas Marner?
26. What is the largest island administered by the People's Republic of China, which is due east of Vietnam?
27. Which of these is a French liqueur made in the town of Voiron, which composed of distilled alcohol flavoured with 130 herbal extracts and is named after the monastery where it was formerly produced?
28. What was named after American frontiersman James Bowie?
29. Why was the colour pink, instead of the traditional red, officially adopted for the cricket balls used for the inaugural day-night test in Australia in 2015?
30. In 2020, choreographers Geeta Kapoor and Terence Lewis became two of the judges of what TV show?
31. What was the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by Germany in World War II?
32. In 1822 Brazil declared its independence from what European power?
33. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays both of the twins, separated after the death of their parents, in which 1991 film?
34. Whose remains, after he died in 1506 at Valladolid, Mexico, were taken to San Domingo then to Havana, and then, in 1898, to Seville in Spain?
35. The Australian city of Hobart is on which river?
36. What name did Pol Pot give to the ideology that he forced on the people of Democratic Kampuchea?
37. Which of these functions is centred in The Hague?
38. Which of these countries is closest to France?
39. Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger played what unlikely pair in a 1988 film?
40. What have George Etheridge, William Wycherley, Thomas Shadwell, Thomas Otway Colby Ciber and William Congreve in common?
41. In Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, whose hand extends to the hand of Adam?
42. Where is Tabasco Sauce produced?
43. Which US television series, first screened in 2009, stars the first person to win an Oscar portraying a character of the opposite sex?
44. In 1958, the Dodgers baseball team moved to Los Angeles from where?
45. The Dunnart, Bandicoot, Cuscus and Potoroo are native to which country?
46. Where digital computers deal in bits what do quantum computers involve?
47. What is the title of a detective crime novel by Robert B. Parker, written as an authorised sequel to "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler?
48. Seoul is the capital of which country?
49. Anthony Wilding, who won the Wimbledon men's singles from 1910 to 1913, was from what country?
50. What is the golden ratio, divine proportion or golden mean in mathematical terms?
51. Who said "I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back" ?
52. Who is the author of the 2009 political memoir "Going Rogue" ?
53. What British motor car manufacturer, founded in 1909 by H.F.S. Morgan and run by him until 1959 when his son Peter Morgan took over until 1999, is currently run by Peter's son, Charles Morgan?
54. What was Melanie Brown's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
55. Alongside the red cross and the red crescent symbols which identify relief societies for wounded soldiers, what further symbol was formally adopted in 2005?
56. When Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the 1983 World Figure Skating Championship with the world's first perfect scores and the routine "Barnum", who was a third member of their team?
57. What is the cube root of 64?
58. What was the surname of 20th century authors Victoria and Edward, who were brother and sister?
59. Which of these is the name for a group of magpies?
60. When was the repeal of the US federal law called the "Chinese Exclusion Act" (1882) which banned Chinese immigration?
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