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General Knowledge Quiz 384 (60 MCQs)

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1. In the James Bond film who played Bond girl Anya Amasova?
2. A Soviet film adaptation of which Shakespearean play, directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with black-and-white photography, a score by Shostakovich and a script based on a translation by Boris Pasternak, was made by Mosfilm in 1971?
3. According to legend, what was the name of Lady Godiva's horse?
4. Where do jelly-like beroe ctenophora live?
5. Which of these was an Irish-born figurative painter of English descent known for his bold, austere, graphic and often tortured imagery such as is found in his paintings called "Head" and the "Screaming Popes" series?
6. Immediately prior to the United States Congress, activated in 1789, the governing body was called what?
7. Audrey Hepburn appeared in which of these classic films?
8. When did the reign of the last king of Greece end?
9. Cricketer W G Grace, a first-class cricketer from 1865 to 1908, was a member of what profession?
10. What is Neil Diamond's real name?
11. Who is associated with the make of car that was used to travel in time in the film "Back To The Future" ?
12. A point chisel, mallet and rasp are tools which are used to create which of these?
13. In North America one species of what, called Magicicada septendecim, lives for 17 years all but a few weeks of which are spent underground?
14. Alaric I was the King of which group who sacked Rome in 410AD?
15. Which of these is a pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument commonly used in Middle Eastern music?
16. The rules for which sport were originally drawn up by the Knickerbocker Club in New York in 1843?
17. What was the purpose of the English "Navigation Act" of 1651?
18. "Chicken Little", Disney's first fully computer-animated feature film, centres on a young rooster who cries wolf, is shunned by his community, and makes friends who include an ugly duckling, a cowardly pig and who else?
19. Tegucigalpa and Comayagรผela together form the seat of government and the national capital of which country?
20. Who composed the 1768 one act comic opera "Bastien und Bastienne" ?
21. Who became a member of The Beach Boys in December 1964, substituting on stage for Brian Wilson by playing bass guitar and singing falsetto harmonies and playing guitar on the "Pet Sounds" album, until April 1965 when he concentrated on his solo career?
22. Canadian Crystal Pite, CM, who leads a company called Kidd Pivot, works in what field?
23. Which author, born in Boston Massachusetts, wrote "Nature", "Representative Men" and "English Treats" ?
24. Who is Yusuf Islam?
25. A book by Ernest Hemingway is "The Snows of ..... '' where?
26. What fishing method involves pulling a large fishing net through the water behind one or more boats?
27. Which is a satellite system, used mainly for monitoring crops, vegetation and forest, land cover change, inland waters, glaciers and others, and for observation of coastal areas (marine environmental monitoring, and mapping sampling from coastal areas)?
28. Linus Torvalds is known for originating what in 1991?
29. In a popular children's story, what is the name of the young tugboat that saves an ocean liner?
30. Who played "Sandy" in the 1975 film "Grease" ?
31. A non-violent resistance group formed in 1942 in Nazi Germany by students and academics at the University of Munich was known as what?
32. Michael Flatley, flautist and choreographer and internationally well-known for his Irish dancing, was born and grew up where?
33. Where is there a 2 metre high statue of Popeye, which was unveiled during the annual Spinach Festival in 1937?
34. Victoria Falls is on the border between which two countries?
35. Which Australian pop singer ended his four year marriage to Katie Price in May 2009?
36. Who founded "Answers" in 1888, and later founded Amalgamated Press in the UK which, at various times, owned "The Evening News", "The Daily Mail", "The Daily Mirror", "The Observer" and "The Times" ?
37. What is found in a "parliament" ?
38. What is "Midway", the site of the Battle of Midway?
39. Who plays Bree Van De Kamp in the US TV series "Desperate Housewives" ?
40. In central and northern Italy, the Guelphs, who supported the Pope, and Ghibellines, who supported the Holy Roman Emperor, became a metaphor for rivalry between individual families and cities. When was this?
41. Maurice Cole, under his stage name, was the creator of a number of anarchic irreverent radio and TV shows, the most well-known of which was called what?
42. In 2003, Kate Winslet married (and subsequently had two children with) whom?
43. The Serra Geral and the Serra do Mar run north to south shielding the interior of what country from the Atlantic?
44. The term "banana republic" was first used in 1904 by O Henry, to describe what country?
45. This British actor is acclaimed for her role in the 1996 Mike Leigh film "Secrets & Lies" and as an eccentric, dour and insightful detective in a TV series (2011 onwards) in the Northumberland Broads. Who is she?
46. "Floating the needle" is a term used in what?
47. How many lines are there in a sonnet?
48. รngel Matos, who was banned for life from international Taekwondo events after kicking a referee in the face and punching another official at the 2008 Olympics, represented which nation?
49. Which country, the capital of which is Asmara, was ruled by Ethiopia from 1952 to 1993?
50. Where were the FIBA (Basketball) World Championships held in 2006?
51. By what name is Saul Hudson, solo artist and guitarist in bands including Velvet Revolver and Guns N' Roses, better known?
52. What two words follow this lyric from Katy Perry's song released in 2008: "I kissed a girl and I liked it, the taste of her ..... '' what?
53. Which of these is a nickname for France?
54. What kind of character is "Touchstone", who appears in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" ?
55. The Battle of the Three Emperors, the Battle of Austerlitz, is seen as a decisive engagement in what longer conflict?
56. What condition, first described by Reginald Fitz in 1886 and characterised by inflammation of the blind-ended tube connected to the cecum, requires an immediate operation to prevent rupture of the tube and death from (mainly) peritonitis and shock?
57. In the musical "West Side Story", where have about half of the characters (including "Maria" and her family) emigrated from?
58. In what area of science is the Pauli Exclusion Principle quoted?
59. The Treaty of Peace with Japan (also known as the Treaty of San Francisco and the San Francisco Peace Treaty), signed by 49 nations that officially ended World War II, came into effect in what year?
60. What is the principal language on the Galapagos Islands?
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