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General Knowledge Quiz 391 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which famous English model of the 1960s was once romantically linked to '60s photographer David Bailey and actor Terence Stamp, but married photographer Michael Cox, with whom she bought a small hotel in Penzance, Cornwall?
2. What is the best-known English blue cheese?
3. The eleventh studio album by Irish rock band U2, released in November 2004, was called How to Dismantle ..... " what?
4. What international scientific effort encompassing eleven Earth sciences that lasted from 1 July 1957 to 31 December 1958 was supported by both the USA and the USSR, who each launched a satellite?
5. Who said "Pressure, I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your backside. Playing cricket is not" ?
6. Between 1979 and 2016 the Dakar Rally registered 28 known fatalities among competitors on and around the Rally. How many deaths were there among the spectators?
7. Oculus Story Studio, formed employing a handful of Pixar Animation Studios veterans, released their first interactive Virtual Reality short at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. What was it?
8. What is the setting for George Orwell's book "Animal Farm" ?
9. In which 1988 film does a weapons expert eat a jewel thief's favourite pet to force him to tell him where the jewels are?
10. In the 1960s Raymond Davis Jr. set up a deep underground laboratory. Under what was the laboratory built?
11. What is equivalent to 4 quavers?
12. For the type of bet called a "Trifecta", how many horses are picked?
13. Who was the British engineer who designed and in 1926 publicly demonstrated the first television system suitable for broadcast transmission?
14. What was the expressed purpose of the law Russia enacted in 2013, which caused concern in relation to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games at Sochi?
15. Which of these is the eastern part of a non-collegiate Christian church, sometimes known as the choir, usually separated from the nave by a screen or railing?
16. British actor and award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti OBE-as well as writing the lauded play version of the 2020 film "The Life of Pi" among her many other works-is married to which decorated and award-winning actor, writer and director?
17. Which sport, that involves running through an obstacle track 253.5 metres long, has major competitions held in Sonkajärvi (Finland) and in the USA in Monona and Minocqua (both in Wisconsin) and Marquette (Michigan)?
18. Which of these means "that is" ?
19. Which city or cites have hosted both a Winter Olympic Games and a Winter Youth Olympic Games?
20. Who shot the most famous film of the assassination of John F Kennedy?
21. Where were the first Winter Youth Olympic Games held?
22. In Olympic archery, the outer 2 circles on the target (called 1 ring and 2 ring) are what colour?
23. What does the informal and dangerous sport of tombstoning involve?
24. What is the formation of vapour bubbles of a flowing liquid in a region where its pressure falls below its vapour pressure?
25. Which state of the USA, initially called New Connecticut, declared independence in 1777, issued its own coinage 1785-1788, exchanged ambassadors with France, the Netherlands and the USA, and in 1791 joined the US Federal union as the 14th state?
26. Which bridge across the Thames is closest to the Houses of Parliament in London?
27. Where did the Bataan Death March, which started in April 1942, take place?
28. In April 2014 a record BASE jump from the top of the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, involved how many people jumping?
29. What is the technical term for 4 bits of digital data?
30. In what Olympic Games did Dick Fosbury first use his, then new, technique in the high jump?
31. Which was one of the three demonstration sports featured in the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona?
32. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the 9th king of the House of Chakri, who became king in 1946 in which country, became its longest reigning monarch, and the second longest in the world, when his reign ended in 2016?
33. What ancient structures have been recorded and excavated as being built for tombs, religious and monumental use, throughout China, India, Nubia (southern Egypt and Sudan), Middle America, Greece, Mesopotamia, and Egypt?
34. Which of Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies starts with two tempestuous statements, when interpreted by the Morse code, of the letter "V" ?
35. Which of these is a type of bed?
36. Lloyd's of London, a British insurance and reinsurance market, began around 1688 in what kind of place?
37. What novel, alternatively entitled "There and Back Again", is a fantasy novel by J R R Tolkien, published in September 1937?
38. Which of these is a game for four players that is similar to whist?
39. The spacecraft Cassini in the 20-year joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission was crash landed where in September 2017?
40. What does 2 squared, plus the circumference of a circle, minus twice the product of the circle's radius and pi, minus the cube root of 8, equal?
41. What is the expression of equating two things which are in fact the same thing expressed in different words?
42. Who or what was Captain Flint in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" ?
43. In what month or months are the Winter Olympic Games held?
44. Which of these was a British actor, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, theatre and opera director, director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter between 1940 and 2004?
45. What region of the Mediterranean Sea separates Italy from Bosnia and Herzegovina?
46. The first editions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice ..... " books were given a special flavour by illustrations by which 19th century graphic humourist and political cartoonist?
47. A 2002 feature-length documentary film directed by David C. Thomas, that includes US government surveillance footage of a performance at the protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, is about which Detroit-based rock band?
48. Which of these lakes is not one of the 4 that borders the state of Michigan in the USA?
49. What rating indicates the anti-engine knocking properties of a fuel?
50. Which of these is a way to lose a point in tennis?
51. Which Czech composer studied his native folk music and incorporated it into his work, including the opera "Jenufa" ?
52. In the 12th century, who was the lover and then husband of Héloïse, celebrated as a writer and scholar and, later, a nun and abbess?
53. In which of these chemical formulae is oxygen NOT a part?
54. When world ranked No.2 Li Na retired from professional playing in 2014 what sport was she retiring from?
55. What can be inserted to provide for delivery or drawing off liquid into or from a blood vessel, or inserting a surgical instrument?
56. On 12 September 1995, the Belarusian air force shot down a gas balloon, killing two Americans, during a race for which trophy?
57. Aten, Ra, Amun and Ptah are what?
58. What is not true of a millipede, which distinguishes it from a centipede?
59. "Death of a Naturalist" (1966) is the first major published collection of poetry of what Nobel Prize-winning poet?
60. Who originated the "Mr. Men" series of books?
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