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General Knowledge Quiz 395 (60 MCQs)

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1. At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards Show in February 2013 New Zealand singer Kimbra won two Grammies for her part in an album with Gotye. What were they?
2. In 2012 Dave Stimson invented what game, involving a bell and a thrown implement?
3. What subregion of Oceania includes Fiji, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Norfolk Island, the Solomon Islands, the Torres Strait Islands and Vanuatu?
4. What does the saying "medicus curat, natura sanat" imply?
5. What is the name of the lighthouse off the coast of Angus at the mouth of the Firth of Tay, which is also called Bell Rock?
6. Which of these is one of the accepted descriptions of the shape of the Seal of Solomon?
7. The Second Revolution, or Trois Glorieuses, in France in 1830 led to the overthrow of the restored Bourbon monarchy and to what?
8. Denver, Colorado, USA calls itself what?
9. The Superclásico is contested between Boca Juniors and River Plate in Buenos Aires, in what sport?
10. The American War of Independence began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and how many British colonies in North America?
11. Who was the chief deity of the Romans, the equivalent to the Greeks' Zeus?
12. Which of these novelists is not American?
13. Which American physician and associate professor of bacteriology conducted the first field trials of a safe and effective vaccine against polio in 1952?
14. What is a "passion play" about?
15. Who wrote the music for the 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance patter song "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" ?
16. What musical instruments does a luthier work with?
17. Which was the last year the Isle of Man TT was a round of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing season?
18. Which TV series follows Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation in Sacramento, California, who solves serious crimes by using his skills of observation?
19. In France, which of these establishments specialises in selling meat?
20. Calista Flockhart became engaged to whom in February 2009?
21. Which western country was the first to extend the right to vote in national elections to women?
22. Ashley Jensen played Maggie Jacobs in which TV series?
23. What is the William Webb Ellis Cup awarded for?
24. Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, principal guest artist of The Royal Ballet from 2003, and international guest and touring artist until retirement as a dancer in 2015-who is the artist?
25. As of April 2010, who was the wealthiest person in the world?
26. Which of these is an example of an "anthropoid" ?
27. What name is given to describe the phenomenon of the gradual mixing of two different substances which are in contact?
28. In 2016 Britain voted to do what?
29. Where were the 2017 World Masters Games held?
30. To what is the Pauli Exclusion Principle applied?
31. The drug "diazepam" is used chiefly to what?
32. What is the grammatical term for the verb "could" ?
33. How did the alcoholic beverage "punch" get its name?
34. Pierre Poivre, an eighteenth‑century French horticulturalist and government administrator in the French islands of the West Indian Ocean, may have sparked what saying?
35. Caracas, Venezuela, is situated along which river?
36. When were the first Asian Games held?
37. What is the name of a construction toy made of interlocking plastic blocks?
38. Where is the Bayóvar Depression?
39. Which of these would you encounter when carving a chicken?
40. Where is the giant copper statue of a man, woman and child, known as the African Renaissance monument, that was unveiled in April 2010?
41. What word means the type of movement by normally walking on the soles of the feet?
42. Ronnie Scott's club in London is the venue for what kind of music?
43. The modern Oxford-Cambridge University boating course runs from Putney to where?
44. Which of these African lands lies closest to the mid-Atlantic ridge?
45. The only, since 1980, annual athletics international contest with only two participating countries still held at a professional level involves which two countries?
46. The two main islands of which country are known as "the North Island" and "the South Island" ?
47. The 2010 Six Nations Championship, the 11th series of an annual rugby union competition contested by the six major Northern Hemisphere rugby union national teams, was won by France. Which nation won it in 2009 and came second in 2010 and 2011?
48. A famous opera by Rossini is about the barber of where?
49. In mid 2017 Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Qatar and imposed trade and travel bans on the country. Thirteen countries and three other administrations joined Saudi in cutting relations. Which of these was not one?
50. Who said, at a march in London organised by the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign on 17 March 1968 in Trafalgar Square, "A Vietcong victory is the only way to peace" ?
51. What shape is the course used for snail racing championships?
52. In 1994, the "National Sports of Canada Act" declared which two sports as the national sports of Canada?
53. Which of these songs is from "My Fair Lady" ?
54. Belgian priest, Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), was well-known as a what?
55. Which of these films was released first?
56. A relic that is claimed to be Jesus Christ's burial sheet is associated with which city?
57. What does the documentary "Year of the Dogs" (1997) deal with?
58. What reddish-brown bean-shaped organs lies in the abdomen just under the diaphragm, one on each side of the backbone?
59. What do the films "The Danish Girl" and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" have in common?
60. FITA was founded in 1931 in Lwow in Poland to promote and regulate what sport worldwide?
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