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General Knowledge Quiz 383 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which city is generally accepted as the birthplace of Grunge, a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s?
2. Who was the first Prime Minister of Ceylon when it became independent on 14 October 1947?
3. Which of these numbers is closest to the number of hours in a leap year?
4. "The Iliad" was originally written in what language?
5. When was the Sûreté, initially the criminal investigative bureau of the Paris police, founded?
6. International Workers' Day is observed in many countries of the world on 1 May. What does it commemorate?
7. Before performing with "The Grease Band" and "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", Joe Cocker performed under what name between 1961 and 1966?
8. Which of these were affected by the US federal law called The Amnesty Act of 22 May 1872?
9. Mountain ranges run down most of the eastern coast of southern Africa. In which country is the most coastal flat land?
10. What is the subject of the 2020 film "Quo Vadis, Aida?", nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 2021 Academy Awards and winning Best Film at the 2021 European Film Awards?
11. When the watchmaker Rolex introduced "oyster" into its advertising, what did the term refer to?
12. Where was the Battle of Hastings, which took place on 14 October 1066 between the Norman army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army of King Harold II?
13. Where is khuru a traditional and popular sport?
14. Awarded since 1955, what is the name of the highest prize for competing films at the Cannes Film Festival?
15. In 1698 findings were published by the Royal Society, Britain, from the discovery near Llandeilo in Wales of fossils of what, the first recorded publication on the subject?
16. Which is a legal or statutory provision enacted in USA states between 1895 and 1910 to deny suffrage to African Americans but ensure suffrage to whites however poor and illiterate?
17. The term "Hispanic" means relating to what country?
18. What is a localised, blood-filled dilation of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel wall, which most commonly occurs in arteries at the base of the brain and in the aorta?
19. How many pairs of strings are there on a mandoline?
20. As what is Mikhail Baryshnikov internationally known?
21. Which novelist, born in Bombay in 1865, was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1907?
22. What are Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium and Caesium?
23. In November 2010, Genoveva Añonma and sisters Bilguissa Simporé and Salimata Simporé of which national women's soccer team were accused by newspapers in Nigeria and Cameroon of being men, not women?
24. What was the title of Walt Disney's first full length animated feature, released in 1937?
25. Haughton impact crater, at latitude 75 degrees north one of the most northerly impact craters known, is located where?
26. In Britain, what was the name given to the M4 Medium Tank that was produced by the US from World War II until the end of the Korean War?
27. Which Europeans have been proved to have reached North America before Christopher Columbus?
28. Who divorced her husband in 1978 after sixteen years of marriage, accusing him of years of severe spousal abuse and rampant drug addiction in her autobiography "I, Tina" (which was later adapted for the film "What's Love Got to Do with It"), and left semi-retirement in 2008 to embark on her "Tina!:50th Anniversary Tour" ?
29. Which of these was never the name of a prison in the USA?
30. The 1906 Treaty of Limits established the border between what country and a then-Dutch colony?
31. In 2009 it was announced that the Summer Olympic Games 2016 would be held where?
32. At the end of The War of 1812, the USA held Canadian territory near Detroit, and the British held parts of which Eastern state?
33. The TV series "Indian Summers", which premièred in 2015, deals with summers where?
34. Why was the bougainvillea plant given that name?
35. What is the next number in the series 1, 8, 27, 64, 125?
36. Which of these would not be a type of music clef?
37. What word refers to a note whose pitch is not a member of the scale indicated by the key signature?
38. Which school is associated with the High School Musical?
39. What was the dolphin that accompanied vessels near French Pass, a channel used by ships sailing between Wellington and Nelson, New Zealand between 1888 and 1912?
40. What book introduced "the Thought Police" ?
41. What is a polynya?
42. Who co-wrote the film "Jesus Christ Superstar" (1973) with its director, Norman Jewison?
43. Who was rumoured to be reunited with ex-husband Brad Pitt in June 2009?
44. Ornette Coleman, Louis Armstrong and Charles Mingus are associated with what style of music?
45. In water skiing as a competitive sport who, apart from the skier and a person to pull them, is needed?
46. What is next in the series:Katherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Catherine?
47. In the 1967 film "Belle de Jour", based on a 1928 novel by Joseph Kessel and directed by Luis Buñuel, what part-time work is carried out by the main character played by Catherine Deneuve?
48. Which of these is native to the southern hemisphere?
49. Which of these words means "fate" or "destiny" ?
50. What is Munk's Roll?
51. Which French artist joined a Post-Impressionist group, started the Synthetist movement and worked in Tahiti from 1891 to 1893, and 1895 to 1901?
52. The rank insignia of Swiss generals has representations of what flower instead of stars?
53. Agnes Baltsa and Alfredo Kraus were involved in the opening ceremony of what Summer Olympics?
54. On 26 December 2004 Aceh in Sumatra, Indonesia, was devastated by what?
55. Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009), a sister to ex-USA President John F. Kennedy, is widely known for work in what?
56. Which of these is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organisation, created in 1971, best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic disease?
57. When did the USA officially enter World War II?
58. Which of these dramas bear no relation to Scotland?
59. Which of the Corrs plays the violin?
60. In which sport might a competitor perform a half Axel?
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