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General Knowledge Quiz 379 (60 MCQs)

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1. What does the "e" stand for in Einstein's famous equation?
2. The national flag of which of these countries has a lion on it?
3. Which war ended as a result of peace negotiations at Panmunjom, completed on 27 July 1953?
4. According to the legend, Peeping Tom was looking at whom?
5. Plato and Xenophon are the most famous pupils of which Greek philosopher?
6. What is a form, sett, drey or nide?
7. In what year did Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reach the South Pole, the first known to do so?
8. What does "bona fides" mean?
9. Hawaii is in which ocean?
10. Which country, the capital of which is Monrovia, was founded by the American Colonisation Society in 1820 as a home for freed slaves?
11. Whose wife, Elin, gave birth to his son, Charlie, early in 2009?
12. In which state or states of Australia would you find the Nullarbor Plain?
13. What name was given to a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005?
14. Jean Louis is associated with what activity?
15. What kingdom did the possibly mythical Agamemnon of the Trojan War rule?
16. In music, what does "pp" mean?
17. Eamon de Valera led 9 governments of which country between 1932 and 1959?
18. Who was "the fourth man" in the Cambridge spy ring, whose name was not publicly known until 1979?
19. What will be affected by a HALO operation?
20. What was or Is the Lycian League?
21. Which Commedia dell'arte character was servant to the Inamorata, and the daughter of Pantaloon and courted by Harlequin?
22. The names of how many US states begin with the capital letter "I" ?
23. The English agronomist, agriculturist, barrister and writer, Jethro Tull, was known for what inventions in the early 18th century?
24. Where did the followers of the Christian Saint Maron migrate in the 8th century CE from what is now north-western Syria, and settle forming a long-lasting community?
25. Gotye, an Australian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter famous for award winning singles 2011 to 2013, including Grammy awards and Record of the Year, was born where?
26. In what discipline is the term "saros" used to denote a length of time?
27. During World War I, Turkey was on the same side as which of these countries?
28. The elements needed to make human insulin are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and which other?
29. Which of these words means "a bicycle built for two" ?
30. How are potatoes harvested?
31. Andy Green, driving Thrust SSC, did what in 1997?
32. Who did Jon Venables and Robert Thompson kidnap from a shopping centre in Bootle, Liverpool on 12 February 1993?
33. Chester Arthur Burnett, whose blues classics include "Spoonful" and "Smokestack Lightnin'", is better known by what stage name?
34. In which novel does Michael Henchard sell his wife and child for 5 guineas?
35. What is the name for a Muslim house of prayer?
36. What is the name for a vertical division of a window?
37. How long does it take to travel 10 km at 60 kilometres per hour?
38. Which Formula One driver shocked the motoring world with his announcement immediately following the announcement of the World Champion in 2016?
39. Which of these is an ancient name for Troy?
40. What is one of the things which differentiate Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador from Chile?
41. Which city hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2002?
42. Champions in which sport used to receive the Wightman Cup?
43. Which canal operated along the banks of the Potomac in Maryland from 1850 to 1924 and connected Cumberland, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., allowing freight to be transported around the Great Falls of the Potomac River?
44. What year did American protesters throw tea into the harbour, as a protest at British tax on the tea and a perceived monopoly by the East India Company which supplied it?
45. Who joined the Five Nations Rugby Union Tournament to make it the Six Nations in 2000?
46. Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, Kate McGarrigle, who died in 2010, was the mother of whom?
47. The canonisation of which English saint on 1 May ca.870 CE is still celebrated on 1 May and also on the eve of the actual day?
48. Which World Championship in Athletics did Usain Bolt announce as his last international competition?
49. What does the French word "chanson" mean?
50. Which English electronic dance music duo was made up of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe?
51. What is the Scottish word that applies to New Year's Eve?
52. Who constructed railway lines between Stockton and Darlington (in 1821) and Manchester and Liverpool (in 1829), and designed and built railway engines, including "The Rocket" .
53. Egon Schiele (1890-1918), a major figurative artist of the early 20th century, was a protégé of which other famous painter?
54. What term is used to describe a wine with a full body and rich texture?
55. Hydrogen and oxygen and what other element make up the formula for salicylic acid?
56. Who discovered, in 1895, that X Rays could be applied to medicine?
57. Where in northern China does its second longest river, and the sixth longest river system in the world, rise?
58. Which of these is a wine from the USA?
59. Who famously gatecrashed a state dinner for Indian President Manmohan Singh at the White House on 24 November 2009?
60. Which French composer's works include the opera "Samson et Dalila" and the orchestral work "Carnaval des Animaux" ?
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