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General Knowledge Quiz 380 (60 MCQs)

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1. What did the ringing of bells throughout the US's National Park Service areas on 19 August 2019 mark?
2. What position represents the head of government in Germany?
3. In what English city is the TV series "Endeavour" (first screened in 2013) set?
4. Which film contained advice to the eponymous hero to "phone home", which then became the 15th best known quote in AFI list of top 100 quotes?
5. Who wrote "The Water Babies" ?
6. What country hosted the inaugural World Cup tournament in 1930 organised by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), in which 13 nations took part:7 from South America, 4 from Europe and 2 from North America?
7. The White Horse Temple, established in Luoyang in 68 AD under the patronage of Emperor Ming in the Eastern Han capital Luoyang is, according to tradition, the first temple in China, of what religion?
8. Which of these is an American basketball player?
9. What federation of free cities who had developed trade with foreign countries, formed in the 14th century, had its headquarters in Lübeck?
10. How many white stripes are there on the flag of the USA?
11. What is the second largest organ of the human body, located under the diaphragm on the right hand side?
12. Bigfoot, a supposedly large, hairy, bipedal humanoid which lives in forests in the Northwest of North America, is also known as what?
13. Which American television sitcom that ran for 7 years from 19 September 1970 spun-off three television series:Rhoda (1974-1978), Phyllis (1975-1977) and Lou Grant (1977-1982)?
14. Carl Lewis won Olympic gold medals at 4 Olympic Games in 4 different events, including the 4x100m relay. He did not win gold for one of these sports. Which one?
15. The Wimbledon tennis tournament is held at which tennis club in London?
16. What is porcini?
17. Comhdháil na Múinteoirí le Rincí Gaelacha, An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, and WIDA independently run three of six annual world championships in what discipline?
18. Someone who is litigious does what?
19. US basketballer LeBron James caused headlines in 2010 and 2014 by first leaving and then returning to what team?
20. What is embouchure?
21. When was astronomy accepted by the Nobel Prize Committee as part of the discipline of physics, thereby making astronomers eligible for a Nobel Prize?
22. Charlotte was the queen of which British king?
23. In August 1830, the audience were so stirred by a performance of Auber's "La Muette de Portici" at their capital's opera house, that it led to what successful fight for independence?
24. Dick Francis wrote novels based in what environment?
25. Alongside management of fish stocks what is a main reason for the Kingdom of Oman to restrict commercial fishing off its coasts?
26. Which of these Islamic organisations or associations is based in Lebanon?
27. What is the name of the Temple built to Pallas Athene around 480 BC, from which marble friezes and statues were removed by Lord Elgin in 1812?
28. Who wrote the 1955 novel "The Quiet American" ?
29. To which of these meanings would it not be appropriate to apply the word "leave" ?
30. Which of the Great Lakes is the furthest east?
31. How many lungs should a human have?
32. The poem "Last Letter" was found and published twelve years after the death of the poet and 49 years after the events of the poem. Who was it written about?
33. Who were the parents of 5 girls and a boy, born between 1932 and 1940, who were killed by their mother in Berlin on 1 May 1945, before both parents committed suicide?
34. The world's first passenger railway operated between which two stations?
35. By 2016 36% of Belize's land territory and 13% of Belize's marine territory falls under some form of official protected status; what, and when, was Belize's first gazetted sanctuary for wildlife protection?
36. Which team has played in 40 of the 105 Baseball World Series and won 27 World Series championships (between 1923 and 2009), the most of any Major League franchise?
37. What is the name for the point in the lunar orbit when the moon is nearest to the earth?
38. In America it is called a pacifier. What is it called in England?
39. If a chess player completes a move known as en passant, what pieces are involved?
40. When did the hero of wormworldsaga.com start Chapter 1 of his online adventures?
41. Which film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni showed the nature and emotions of the characters when Claudia (played by Monica Vitti) searched with her lover Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti) for her sister Anna (Lea Massar)?
42. What is a Chinese-inspired meat dumpling-style snack food that normally consists of a large ball of pork or other meat, cabbage and flavourings, encased in a wrapper similar to that of a more traditional dumpling?
43. The South American city of Fortaleza is on the northern coast of which country?
44. Known as a slek in Cambodia and found in various forms in many countries, it is what kind of musical instrument?
45. Which American actress became known for her role in the television series "Ally McBeal" and has appeared in several films, including "Charlie's Angels", "Kill Bill" and "Kung Fu Panda" ?
46. Where are the Aptian salt basins?
47. Who knighted Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealand chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics?
48. For the 1924 Summer Olympics the International Olympic Council (IOC) decided to ban what?
49. Which English poet, the author of "Adonis", "Prometheus Unbound" and "Ode to the West Wind", accidentally drowned off Leghorn, England, in 1822?
50. In 2008 there were 193 members of the United Nations. How many "nations" were represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
51. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index that shows how stocks of large, publicly-owned companies based in the USA have traded during a standard stock market trading session. How many company's stocks does it track?
52. What is the capital of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada?
53. The autobiography and, later, film "Gorillas in the Mist" dealt with work by whom?
54. The last element to be discovered in nature, rather than synthesised, was discovered In 1939 by Marguerite Perey. What was it?
55. Where is the large 600 m (2, 000 ft) high mesa known as the Jugurtha Tableland?
56. Whose theme song was "Thanks For The Memory" ?
57. Who are the brothers one of whom co-founded the band Split Enz and the other of whom co-founded The Mullanes; at times both were members of the other brother's band?
58. Which of these countries is on the Horn of Africa?
59. The Beach Soccer World Championship began in 1995 and became the Beach Soccer World Cup in 2005. Which country won the contest most often in the first 15 years?
60. What date was the US Transcontinental Railroad completed?
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