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General Knowledge Quiz 390 (60 MCQs)

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1. What blues rock band did singer, songwriter and keyboard player Ms Perfect join under her married name?
2. What is the name for a large circular stained glass window found in Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals that is divided by elaborate tracery into slender panes radiating from a centre?
3. In the book "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson, what inn was owned by the parents of the narrator, Jim Hawkins?
4. Who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. who has become well-known for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, and his social and political activism?
5. Which were the last Summer Olympics in which teams from East Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) participated under those names?
6. Gingivitis is a general term for what?
7. What is "enjambement" ?
8. After Gianni Versace died, Donatella Versace, formerly vice-president, stepped in as creative director of Versace. What relation is she to Gianni?
9. What is unusual about the dwelling of Baba Yaga, a fearsome character in Slavic folklore?
10. Which of these words came into English from a play by a Czechoslovakian?
11. What is sometimes known as the "sport of kings" ?
12. Who created the comic strip "Garfield" ?
13. Which of these landlocked countries nevertheless has a navy?
14. Which small island in the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb at the south end of the Red Sea was administered as part of Aden during British occupation until 1967, when it was given to the Democratic People's Republic of Yemen?
15. Which 1953 film, starring Lesley Caron and Mel Ferrer and scored by Academy Award winner BronisΕ‚aw Kaper, was based on a Paul Gallico short story titled "The Seven Souls of Clement O'Reilly" ?
16. On air, in September 2010, David Letterman asked whom during an interview for $ US1 million for the use of a section of his programme in a film?
17. In the SI system, what is the basic unit for the measurement of electric current?
18. Which album by Lily Allen contained the tracks "The Fear", "Not Fair" and "22" ?
19. These are the last lines of which play: "All right. Not guilty." "We're ready." "All right gentlemen. Bring your coats and come along."
20. According to the English nursery rhyme, what did the Grand Old Duke of York have?
21. What range of hills runs 50 miles from the Worcestershire border through Gloucestershire to the Avon?
22. In 1993, Eritrea became independent from which country?
23. Futuna and Alofi are the two islands of what group?
24. Which of these is one of the twelve boroughs of Berlin?
25. Who entitled his autobiography "Memoirs of a Professional Cad" ?
26. The first women's Olympic competition for gymnastics, at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, involved only which type of activity?
27. Which of these is the Norse god of thunder?
28. Who was the Formula One racing driver's champion in 1963 and 1965?
29. How many pockets does the modern pocket billiards table have?
30. What is a lunula?
31. Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team between 1919 and 1935?
32. In what country are there more than 60 Peace Walls, or Peace Lines, mostly in the capital city?
33. What word describes someone who historically was a medical professional who formulated and dispensed medicines (the fore-runner of the pharmacist, pharmacologist, chemist or dispensing chemist), offered general medical advice and a range of services such as surgery and midwifery?
34. Which sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia, bounded on the west by Novaya Zemlya and to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya?
35. A small sandbar island emerged in the Bay of Bengal in the aftermath of the Bhola cyclone in 1970, but in 2010 it was discovered it had been completely submerged by rising water levels. Which 2 countries had claimed sovereignty?
36. The wife of Humphrey Verdon Roe, with whom she founded a ground-breaking clinic in Britain, was also an author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for women's rights. What was the field in which she is known for pioneering effective, widespread and consistent action?
37. Sheep, which are aged by their teeth, are referred to by the number of permanent incisors that have erupted. About how old is a "six-tooth" ?
38. Who was Lawrence Edward Grace Oates, who died on 17 March 1912?
39. Wind erosion as a driver behind shaping land forms, is called what kind of force?
40. On 1/1/2014 the first legal sales of cannabis/marijuana for recreational use since about 1940 took place where?
41. What do the dark fantasy films "Stardust" (2007) and "Coraline" (2009) have in common?
42. What instrument is installed in an electrical circuit to vary the resistance?
43. With which instrument were the following people associated in the 1960s:Pete Quaife, Chas Chandler, John Entwistle, Jack Bruce, Bill Wyman, Rick Huxley, Barry Lakeman, John Stax and Paul Samwell-Smith?
44. What is the minimum number of hurdles that must be cleared by each competitor in the Olympic 400m hurdles?
45. What is the capital of Greece?
46. Which of these cities is in Mexico?
47. What are gastropods?
48. The name of the Accademia della Crusca, formed in Florence in 1583, refers to what?
49. Tornadoes typically consist of ..... ?
50. Where did the Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, known for his adventures to examine his theories of cultural diffusion and popularising an interest in the area, carry out his first formal scientific study?
51. What was a significance of the 1969 Battle of Hamburger Hill, or Ap Bia Mountain, in Vietnam?
52. Who had a positive drug test for excessive levels of testosterone after initially being declared the winner of the 2006 Tour de France?
53. What is the country of origin of the cheese called "caerphilly" ?
54. The Edo Period, 1603-1867, refers to what country's history?
55. Which branch of astronomy studies radiation with wavelengths greater than approximately one millimetre?
56. The Richter Scale used for measuring the energy released by earthquakes, mostly replaced since 1979 by the MMS (moment magnitude scale), was developed by Charles Richter and which other scientist?
57. Which of the Gibb brothers is the oldest?
58. In terms of world tennis what is considered a complete Grand Slam?
59. Who invented an early form of fragmentation shell that was first used by the British army in 1803?
60. Who married actress TΓ©a Leoni on 6 May 1997, announced their separation on 15 October 2008, and in September 2009 announced that they had reconciled?
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