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General Knowledge Quiz 398 (60 MCQs)

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1. French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) is particularly known for work in chemistry and biology including discoveries that, although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same, and what?
2. What are known as the Albuquerque Isotopes?
3. Which of these was an Irish professional football player, one of the first celebrity footballers (whose extravagant lifestyle led to problems with alcoholism which curtailed his playing career), best known for his years with Manchester United?
4. In the early 21st century formal multi-million dollar speed contests were established in the United Arab Emirates for what animal?
5. Which "Bond girl" met Ringo Starr when they starred in the 1981 film "Caveman", and later married him?
6. For what activity is Jasper Conran famous?
7. The island of Kos is in which sea?
8. Who invented the ferris wheel?
9. Which is a definition of hardwood?
10. Bananas are more likely to be grown in ..... ?
11. What was the "endless screw", credited to Archimedes in the 3rd century BCE, designed to do?
12. Which of these could not be said about Arthur Ashe?
13. Who plays Susan Mayer in the US TV series "Desperate Housewives" ?
14. Which chemist, engineer, and armaments manufacturer invented dynamite and a detonator for it and then founded a longstanding series of world prizes for, among other things, promoting peace?
15. By what name is Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960 in Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland) better known?
16. A 1959 film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon was called "Some Like It ..... '' what?
17. What is the ordinal of one?
18. Which strict Protestant sect preaches the imminent return of Christ to Earth
19. The partition of India, formalised in 1947, was characterised by religious tension and violence between Hindus and people of which other major religious group?
20. How is one vehicle of a funicular railway connected to the other?
21. Women's sailing made its debut as a separate event in which Olympics?
22. The Hollywood sign, a landmark for Mount Lee in Los Angeles, California, originally said what when it was erected in 1923?
23. How many months are there in a decade?
24. To introduce a pear flavour into a dish or drink which is best to use?
25. The ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism, retrieved from a shipwreck in 1901 and believed to date from the first century BCE, is similar to which 18th century mechanism?
26. Eminent physician and author Dr Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) was a pioneer in what became known as what?
27. Which of these countries is north of the equator?
28. What year were the films "Eyes Wide Shut", "Sixth Sense", "Toy Story 2", and "Fight Club" released?
29. Where are the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago and the Rocas Atoll?
30. With what is the American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth particularly associated?
31. A lodestone or loadstone is a piece of the mineral magnetite which has what property?
32. What is a specialised stem, leaf or petiole with a threadlike shape that is used by climbing plants for support and attachment, usually by twining around whatever it touches?
33. Which 2019 Netflix creation is centred on bloody machinations in a high school?
34. In ancient China what was year 1 of the calendar?
35. Where are Prince Edward Island and the Iles de la Madeleine?
36. What does the Statute of Anne 1709 in Great Britain provide for?
37. When a man was jousting in a medieval contest what did he use?
38. Which of these countries has the lowest population density?
39. What name is given to the period of British history between 1901 and 1910?
40. When is Halley's comet due to reappear in Earth's skies?
41. Alveoli are found in which part of the body?
42. Dr. Benjamin Spock, the American pediatrician who wrote "Baby and Child Care", published in 1946, won an Olympic gold medal in what type of event?
43. Football athlete, broadcaster and actor, O.J. Simpson, ran in the Torch Relay for which Olympic Games?
44. For the 2016 Paralympics and Summer Olympics, held in and around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was the largest venue and the one where the opening and closing ceremonies for the Summer games were held?
45. Where was Geoff Ogilvie, the 2006 US Open golf tournament winner, born?
46. What name was adopted in 1957 by London's Sadler's Wells Ballet Company?
47. Why were the Far Eastern Games discontinued after 1934?
48. Where is Guantanamo Bay?
49. What is the science that deals with the properties, composition, and structure of elements and compounds, the transformations they undergo, and the energy that is released or absorbed during these processes?
50. What was the first film to be directed by the son of veteran British director Ken Loach?
51. Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, can be described as what?
52. What type of race is "the Madison" ?
53. In 2010, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization announced that it expected to make a formal declaration in 2011 of the global eradication of "Rinderpest" . What does Rinderpest attack, mostly?
54. For what did speculative grammarians search?
55. In the nursery rhyme, who was quite contrary and had an unusual garden?
56. Which country declared independence from Britain unilaterally in August 1963, joined the Federation of Malaysia in September along with Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak, but left two years later, officially gaining sovereignty on 9 August 1965?
57. Which of these is not one of The Rhinemaidens, three water-nymphs who appear in Richard Wagner's opera cycle "Der Ring Des Nibelungen" ?
58. A 1999 James Bond film was entitled "The World is not ..... '' what?
59. Following the 1997 return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China to become a special administrative region, Macau was returned to become its second special administrative region. When was that?
60. What TV role played by Jodie Whitaker regenerated in 2022 into the same character but played by another actor?
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