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General Knowledge Quiz 389 (60 MCQs)

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1. What links Samarkand, Tashkent, and Bukhara (or Bokhara)?
2. What function does a clothlet serve in the visual arts?
3. Which chemical process is involved in changing ethyl chloride to ethyl alcohol?
4. How does the film "Lawrence of Arabia" begin?
5. Who ran for the Democratic nomination in the 1980 presidential election by launching a campaign against the incumbent, Jimmy Carter, a member of his own party?
6. What is physiognomy?
7. What can be a term for food served with, or featuring, potatoes?
8. On one of the cliffs which tower over Death Valley in the USA there is a marker showing what?
9. What would you do with an ottoman?
10. Which river has its source in the Fuente de García, Aragon, near the Mediterranean and flows after 626 miles (1, 007 km) across Spain and Portugal into the Atlantic?
11. Putting in place developments by agriculture expert Dr. A. Thimmaiah, together with international advisers one of whom is environmental activist Vandana Shiva, which country pledged to become 100% organic, the first?
12. Who designed Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress for her marriage to Aristotle Onassis (1968), Elizabeth Taylor's gown for the premiere of "Spartacus" in Rome (1961) and Julia Robert's & Cate Blanchett's "Oscars" gowns (2001 & 2005 respectively)?
13. Which 17th century English poet was made Poet Laureate in 1670?
14. Which characterises an oud?
15. Which comic strip has the characters Violet Gray, Linus, Rerun and Lucy van Pelt, Schroeder, Marcie, Franklin and Frieda?
16. Approximately how many years ago is it thought that humans (of the species homo sapiens) arrived on the Australian continent?
17. Who was shot by Valery Solanas on 3 June 1968?
18. The "Libro de los Juegos", completed in Castilian in 1278 AD, contained texts, illustrations and miniatures describing and discussing the games of chess, dice and which other game?
19. What is the name for a net of fine lines or fibres in the eyepiece of a sighting device, such as a telescope, a telescopic sight, a microscope, or the screen of an oscilloscope?
20. Often celebrated as the first, and great, detective novel in English literature was "The Moonstone" by whom?
21. What does the SI unit "Pascal" measure?
22. Who directed the video for the song "Country House" by the pop group Blur?
23. Which of these is the oldest street race on the Formula One calendar?
24. Cleopatra is reputed to have killed herself because of the death of whom?
25. In 1986, who set a new record for scoring the quickest century in test cricket in terms of balls faced (from 56 balls)?
26. A mill in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, built in the 12th century, reconstructed in 1792, further restored in 2010 and currently in full working order is a early English example of a mill powered by what?
27. Which of these founders of major world religions was born earliest?
28. What is a starched, open-weave fabric, much like cheese cloth, that is used to wipe the ink off a plate during the intaglio inking process?
29. What is the common name for a strategic board game for two players who alternately place black and white stones on the vacant intersections of a grid of 19×19 lines?
30. What links the artistic and political statement masterminded by, according to French tradition, the wife of William the Conqueror in the 11th century and those of mixed media artist Kirsty Whitlock, who features recycled and reclaimed materials, in the 21st?
31. From which sport do we get the expression "step up to the plate" ?
32. What is the Order of St. Gregory?
33. What is a word for a long piece of wood?
34. In trochaic metre what form do the words have?
35. The ancient city of Carthage, one of the most important ancient trading hubs, one of the most affluent cities of the classical world, and much prized and repeatedly captured and sacked, lay on the Mediterranean coast near to where?
36. What are the only arteries in the adult human body to carry deoxygenated blood?
37. Which of these words is used to mean a descent using a rope around one's body?
38. The highest peak in Russia is in what mountain range?
39. Who of these musicians was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014?
40. How were the authors of the 19th century works, "Villette", "Remembrance" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", related?
41. In the UK television serial drama, "The Singing Detective" (1986), what disease has put the writer who is the central character into hospital?
42. The 1978 musical "Ain't Misbehavin" ' is named after an early swing song composed by whom?
43. Who is most likely to wear a tutu?
44. What landlocked, mountainous, Central Asian country is bordered by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and the People's Republic of China?
45. Carlos Menem was the president of which country from 8 July 1989 to 10 December 1999?
46. What TV programme opens with the words "In the criminal justice system the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups" ?
47. Finishing in 2016 André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard from Switzerland were the first to do what?
48. Which football club, the oldest club in Wales and the third-oldest professional association football team in the world, in 2023 won their first league title in 45 years and were promoted to the EFL League Two after a 15 year absence?
49. What is the main product of photosynthesis in plants?
50. From the 16th to the 20th century camphor was used in Western medicine as a treatment for what?
51. What was UK pop singer Dusty Springfield's real name?
52. When were the inaugural X Games held?
53. What is an area of garden that contains flowers?
54. The city of Odessa is on which sea?
55. What is a "barchan" ?
56. Who wrote "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, it isn't fit for humans now" ?
57. Who composed the music for the song "Rule Britannia" ?
58. According to The Mamas and the Papas, which day cannot be trusted?
59. What does "safari" mean in its parent language?
60. Which Connecticut-born actor's films include "The Story of G I Joe" (1945), "The Night of the Hunter" (1954), "The Sundowners" (1960) and "The Big Sleep" (1978)?
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