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General Knowledge Quiz 394 (60 MCQs)

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1. If a solution of H2O and NaCl is heated what is the result?
2. What nation's boat "Black Magic I" won five races to nil in the America's Cup in 1995?
3. Who played Frank Spencer in the British TV series "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" ?
4. Who was expelled from school, owned two failed businesses, worked for the Northampton Repertory Company and appeared in the film "Murder at Monte Carlo", where he was discovered by a Warner Brothers executive and went on to make 58 films?
5. Which sportswear brand produced protest "toned down" strips for Denmark in the World Cup in Qatar in 2022?
6. At which Olympiad did the Olympic symbol of five rings officially debut?
7. What projectile is fired by a crossbow?
8. What was the surname of the 19th century English siblings Christina, a poet ("Goblin Market", "Prince's Progress" and "The Face of the Deep"), Dante, a pre-Raphaelite painter and poet ("The Blessed Diamond"), and William, also a pre-Raphaelite painter, who translated Dante's "Inferno" ?
9. In Germany, what would you expect to find at a bahnhof?
10. Which of these is the name of a gallows, last used in 1783, that used to stand near what is now Marble Arch in London, England?
11. What part of the caper is salted and pickled and used as a seasoning or garnish?
12. Edward I of England defeated whose forces at Falkirk on 22 July 1298?
13. What year did students at Oxford University organise the first university "athletic sports" meeting?
14. In 1998 120 countries agreed to set up what?
15. What was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, when the opening ceremony featured a mass demonstration of it, involving hundreds of adults and children?
16. What is the name of the adjustable shutters attached to a stage light to control the area of light it covers?
17. What dark short-legged fork-tailed bird, native to Madagascar, is known for having some species which are accomplished mimics and have a variety of alarm calls they appear to use to obtain food?
18. In physics what is the triple point?
19. What caused the ancient Egyptian temples of Dakka, Maharraqa, Wadi es-Sebua, Amada, and Derr to be dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere?
20. Until 1992, TASS was the official news agency for which organisation?
21. What is the principal diet of the osprey?
22. The highest mountain in North America is part of which mountain range?
23. When was the year of the Great Stink in London, UK, which gave the final impetus to provide funding to design and install London's sewage system?
24. Which of these was the last to win an Academy Award for Best Picture?
25. The Crimean Peninsula was known in antiquity as what, after the name of the early inhabitants?
26. Which of these is not one the four time zones that apply to the USA?
27. Which of these songs is from "Kiss Me Kate" ?
28. Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team between 1914 and 1919?
29. A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray and Robert Parr ere all pseudonyms of which American author?
30. Where is the Afar Triple Junction, or Afro-Arabian Rift System?
31. Why did 66 nations, including the United States, Canada, West Germany and Japan, boycott the 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow?
32. What does MIX in Roman numerals mean?
33. Rosehill racecourse is in which Australian city?
34. Where do quolls have their homes?
35. What is "Dutch Elm Disease" ?
36. What was one avenue the Greek organisers of the 1896 Olympics used to fund the costs and finish or build the last of the venues?
37. In 800 CE, Charlemagne became the first what in the West since the 5th century CE?
38. What was Melanie Chisholm's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
39. Who wrote the 1998 novel "About A Boy" ?
40. Which of these pieces of music features in the opera "Carmen" by Georges Bizet?
41. What is a leotard?
42. A series of political protests against the government in Thailand in 2010 were organised by a group calling themselves what?
43. Which facility, opened in England in sections between 1774 and 1790 and a major asset for a while to industrialising Britain, forms part of the background for the works "His Dark Materials Trilogy" (by Philip Pullman) and "The Wind in the Willows" (by Kenneth Grahame)?
44. During the 1924 Olympic Games relations between the teams representing Italy and France in fencing boiled over into a duel between two of their ancillary personnel, over what?
45. Where are gaiters usually worn?
46. Where and what is Mosi-oa-Tunya?
47. What describes the numbers stated by Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) and named the Bernoulli Numbers?
48. In March 1836, The Alamo was overrun by what?
49. Which of these is the greatest angle?
50. On 12 July 1856, US citizen William Walker declared himself president of where?
51. Which of these was not the name of one of the three stars of the first in the TV series "Charlie's Angels", first broadcast in 1976 / 1977?
52. Who are the two main characters in the TV series "The Big Bang Theory" ?
53. Why did the British parliament pass Acts such as the Dress Act (1746), the Act of Proscription (1746), and the Heritable Jurisdictions Act (1746)?
54. To what is Lake Erie connected by the Erie canal?
55. Which city is "that toddlin' town" where "on State Street that great street ..... They do things that they don't do on Broadway. They have the time the time of their life:I saw a man and he danced with his wife" ?
56. The passport of what lawyer, sportsman, singer, actor and civil rights activist was withdrawn by the US State Department in 1950 because of his alleged affiliation with the Communist Party?
57. The satirical TV series called "The Games", about the preparations for the Sydney 2000 Games, featured original theme music by whom?
58. Which architect died after being hit by a tram in the streets of Barcelona?
59. In mathematical terms what is a digit?
60. Who was an English record producer for The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Lulu, Nancy Sinatra, The Yardbirds, Suzi Quatro, Kim Wilde and the Jeff Beck Group?
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