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General Knowledge Quiz 385 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which brothers started the art rock new wave band Split Enz, went on to successful careers separately and together, and have severally composed and sung on film scores including "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "The Hobbit" ?
2. When Michelle Bachelet took office in March 2006 she was the first woman in her country to be declared what?
3. The Yazidi faith is which of these?
4. Which Damon was an American newspaperman and writer, best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era?
5. When Maori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) formally established a country-wide relationship with the powers of another country in 1840 in a document known as the Treaty of Waitangi, who was the relationship with?
6. Who is Rome's airport named after?
7. Well known in France, who are Valérian and Laureline?
8. What is a palliasse?
9. Which of these is a hot dry wind that affects North Africa, Sicily and the northern Mediterranean?
10. Which of these are members of the group The Black Eyed Peas?
11. The Compensated Emancipation Act, passed in the USA in 1862, provided for what in addition to the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C?
12. In what sport is an individual game called a frame?
13. Nankey Poo, Poo Bah and Pish Tush are characters in which show?
14. What do the areas of Uberwald, Llamedos, and Ankh Morpork share?
15. From the 1850s up to WW I, passport requirements effectively disappeared in the UK and Europe. What is understood to have led to this?
16. What role did Laurence Olivier play in the 1960 film "Spartacus" ?
17. In 1911 the Australian Army's officer training establishment, the Royal Military College, was established where?
18. Where do the warm Agulhas and the cold Benguela ocean currents contact one another?
19. Who was the English prison reformer from 1817 to 1840 whose husband was a big name in the cocoa business?
20. Players form scrums in which sport?
21. Who lived in the Lateran Palace from the fourth to the fourteenth centuries?
22. For blind runners competing in Paralympic races, how is their guide linked with them?
23. The song "Love To Love You Baby" was banned by the BBC in 1975. Who was the artist?
24. Which story serves as a background to the musical "Wicked" ?
25. What is bathophobia?
26. The melody of the song "Happy Birthday to You" dates from when?
27. In 1972, when Ceylon became a republic within the Commonwealth, the name was changed to Sri Lanka. What does "Sri Lanka" mean in Sanskrit?
28. Where in New York city are the Zoo, the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States and among the largest in the world, and the New York Botanical Garden?
29. What genre best describes the 1967-72 UK TV series Callan?
30. Who had a number 1 hit in 1990 with "Opposites Attract" ?
31. Who nailed a paper with 95 theses as a basis for debate with Friar John Tetzel to a church door at Wittenberg on 31 October 1517?
32. Which of these is not a common name for the "puma concolor" ?
33. What film character was created by Paul Hogan?
34. Which city is associated with the XXIV Olympic Winter Games?
35. What is the name of a book where photographs or stamps are kept?
36. Who was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement who was assassinated on 4 April 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee?
37. The home of the drink called "bourbon" is Bourbon County. What state of the USA is it in?
38. The Tuareg and the Berber inhabit which desert?
39. What is the most accurate description of the words "of" and "from" in, respectively, the expressions "comprised of" and "from whence" ?
40. In which city was the Reichstag burnt down in 1933?
41. How many US states do not border another US state?
42. What name is given to the murder of 7 people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929?
43. John Sublett (1902-1986), stage name John W. Bubbles, was famous as what?
44. What was the composer Wolfgang Mozart's middle name?
45. Which play and film was adapted from a story by Christopher Isherwood and later adapted as the musical and film "Cabaret" ?
46. The name of which animal means "man of the forest" ?
47. The debut album, released in 1996, of which group is the best-selling album by a female group in history?
48. The Grand Canyon in the USA lies between which two mountain ranges?
49. The island cities of Ceuta and Melilla claimed by Spain are on the coast of what country?
50. What were the first names of author D H Lawrence?
51. Which German was deprived of his nationality in 1938 mainly for writing "All Quiet On The Western Front" and "The Road Back" ?
52. Of the 12 Winter Olympics between 1924 and 1976 inclusive, how many were held outside of Europe?
53. When was UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) established?
54. Which of these is a line from the 1950 film "Sunset Boulevard" ?
55. Who plays Dalton Russell, who tells why he is in a cell, in the 2006 film "Inside Man" ?
56. What instrument was musician and composer Wayne Shorter known for playing?
57. A Hawaiian pizza is topped with ham and what else?
58. When were the first commercially available wingsuits for skydiving made?
59. Which political party won victories in the Canadian governments of Alberta in 1935 and British Columbia in 1952?
60. In the 2016 spoof online video by President Barack Obama about his impending retirement from the post who is one of the people he discusses it with?
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