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General Knowledge Quiz 388 (60 MCQs)

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1. How did the Met Office in the UK select the names for storms in 2023/4?
2. In the 1988 Winter Olympics several days of opening events were disrupted and/or postponed; what was the reason?
3. In 1956 who wrote and introduced the song, ranked by the magazine Rolling Stone as #97 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, "Roll Over, Beethoven" ?
4. What name was given to groups of runaway slaves in Jamaica and Guiana in the 17th and 18th centuries?
5. Who was the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until 1991, and the only Soviet leader to have been born after the October Revolution of 1917?
6. Bob Judd who was previously a vice-president and creative director in advertising writes highly popular novels centring on what?
7. The word "algebra" comes from which language?
8. A series of paintings called "Kaleidoscope" was created from 2001 onwards by which artist?
9. What resin, drawn from a tree related to the pistachio, is used to flavour foods and drink including ice cream, cheeses, savoury sauces, pastries, chewing gum and coffee?
10. Riparian rights apply to what type of land?
11. The USA tested munitions on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico, a territory of the USA, until when?
12. Research published in 2023 shows a relatively abrupt change in north-western Africa from foraging to farming about 7, 500 years ago, influenced by immigration from where?
13. Which of these was a book by Dale Carnegie, first published in 1936?
14. What is the name of the major north-south mountain range dividing the flat lowlands of the Northeast (Manchurian) Plain to its east from the high Mongolian Plateau to its west?
15. First imposed in England in 1696 what tax was repealed in 1851?
16. The phrase "Here I stand. I can do no other" is popularly understood to have been said while facing what?
17. Which English novelist was arranged to be released from prison in 1703 by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, and was employed by him as a spy?
18. What does the D H stand for in the name of author D H Lawrence?
19. What is the name of an exhibition basketball team created by Abe Saperstein in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, which grew a focus on athleticism, theatre and comedy?
20. What system was the spacecraft Rosetta launched on?
21. Which king of England was called "the wisest fool in Christendom" ?
22. What country, an ideal of the "Illyrian Movement" began to become a reality after the 1918 collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, and was formally renamed (as a "Kingdom") in 1929?
23. Which of these is a Scottish dish which is, essentially, baked chicken with spinach and poached eggs?
24. What does a querulous person do?
25. Who wrote the aria "O mio babbino caro" ?
26. What was the Mars rover, Curiosity, investigating in its first ever drilling operation in 2013?
27. What relationship were the English kings Richard the Lionheart and John (of Magna Carta fame) to each other?
28. Which National Basketball Association team, whose colours are purple, gold and white, use purple uniforms for road games and gold uniforms for home games, with white jerseys for Sunday and holiday home games?
29. According to Burt Bacharach's theme for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", what "keep fallin' on my head" ?
30. Where is the Sonoran desert?
31. What machine, called the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computing machine, was completed and demonstrated in 1941 and destroyed in 1943?
32. What was the UK #1 single released by the band Stereophonics in 2005?
33. Initially known as "These Friends of Mine" what US TV series ran from 1994 to 1998, following the main character's quirky friends and family and the problems of daily life in Los Angeles?
34. What was the fictional family with children called Keith, Danny, Laurie, Tracy and Chris, that first came to US TV screens in 1970?
35. Artists Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Li Shuang, Zhong Acheng, Ai Weiwei and Qu Leilei are associated with which avant-garde art group?
36. Which currently reigning royal family is from the House of Orange?
37. The Fan, Westhead, Becher's Brook, Foinavon's, Canal Turn, Valentine's Brook, the Booth, the Anchor Bridge and the Chair are features of a venue for what sport?
38. In English Law, what is the name for a person other than a guardian who appears in court on behalf of someone who is unable to do so (e.g. a minor, or insane)?
39. What is the title of the head of government of Ireland, similar to that of a Prime Minister, who is nominated by the lower house and appointed by the President?
40. The 2019 Quentin Tarantino film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Al Pacino following an actor and his stunt double in 1969 Los Angeles, is "Once Upon a Time ..... " in what or where?
41. What does "pro forma" mean?
42. Which of these Olympic events covers the longest distance?
43. The "Little Rock Nine" incident of 1957 in Arkansas concerned what event?
44. Which of these is a resort in Italy?
45. Who is the engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR and a co-inventor of video tape recording while at Ampex?
46. Under which President was legislation passed to establish the US National Park Service?
47. Why did the names Möhne, Eder and Sorpe become more widely known after an event in May 1943?
48. What do some species of squid use to communicate in courtship or hunting?
49. Where in Africa is Table Mountain?
50. What is the name of the fictional character in the land of Oz created by L. Frank Baum as "the Good Witch of the South" who, in the 1939 film version of "The Wizard of Oz" was called "the Good Witch of the North" ?
51. Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed during a training run on the course for the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was a competitor in what sport?
52. Which cricket ground was the home ground of the Manchester Cricket Club from 1856 until it became the home of the Lancashire County Cricket Club when that was founded in 1864?
53. In what present day countries did the federation of Hausa kingdoms flourish in the 14th to 19th centuries?
54. What sporting event did one round of Double Gloucestershire cheese feature in during 2019?
55. Where in Paris would you go to stand under the Eiffel Tower?
56. Remains of what is thought to be some of the last surviving Neanderthals, from around 43, 000 years ago, were found where?
57. What nationality were the first European settlers in Brooklyn, New York City?
58. Women took part in wrestling events at an Olympic Games for the first time in what year?
59. The more than 800 works of which 15th and 16th century artist include "Rhinoceros", the botanical study "Great Piece of Turf", "Young Hare", "Praying Hands", "The Feast of the Rosary" as well as portraits and studies of buildings?
60. Which English folk song has been popular since Tudor times?
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