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General Knowledge Quiz 399 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which sport is played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of ice, whereby teams take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones towards the "house" while two sweepers with brooms accompany each one to help direct them to their resting place?
2. Which book attributed to Thomas Cranmer and published around 1549 is still in print?
3. Which of these would be least useful to thicken liquid in cooking?
4. What was the nickname of the Chevalier Raoul, a character in a tale by Perrault in 1697, who murdered successive wives?
5. What is the name used in North America for a man who makes his living by felling trees?
6. The oldest woman Olympic gold medalist is Queenie Newall, at London in 1908, when 53 years old. In which sport did she compete?
7. What did the two-year Tokyo 2020 Medal Project do, in respect of the medals created for the 2020 Olympic Games?
8. What is the motto of the Boy Scout movement?
9. What name is given to a man's cotton or silk cloak buttoned down the front, with full sleeves, reaching to the ankles and worn with a sash?
10. When did a western observer first identify the heavenly body which they named Pluto?
11. Who set a new land speed record in a motor car of 91.37 mph on Lake St Clair on 12 January 1904?
12. When did the British Royal House change its name to that of Windsor?
13. Who composed "The Ride of the Valkyries" which premièred in Munich in 1870?
14. How many nickels are there in $ 2.45?
15. At the Grand National 1967 a major upset halted one of the races causing some of the horses to turn and run the wrong way. What caused the upset?
16. Charles II was the sovereign of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland during which period of British history?
17. Which of these was a Spanish explorer and conquistador, best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, thus being the first European to lead an expedition to reach the Pacific from the New World?
18. Which of these is the most expensive property on a British / US monopoly board?
19. Which 19th century Ukrainian novelist, short story writer, and playwright wrote "Taras Bulba", "The Government Inspector", "The Nose" and "Dead Souls" ?
20. In the phoenetic alphabet, what is represented by the letter "J" ?
21. Which sport has been included in only one Olympic Games, in Paris in 1900, when competition was between the Devon and Somerset Wanderers (representing England) and a team from the British embassy in Paris (representing France)?
22. Which of these bands had a blonde female lead singer?
23. Where is a bobbit worm found?
24. Who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)?
25. A "mufti" is a legal expert in what religion?
26. What is usually used to remove a piece of cooked fish from a frying pan?
27. What is one of the characteristics of social organisation among the East African naked mole rat?
28. Who takes part in the annual Umhlanga Reed Dance in Swaziland?
29. Which of these has the time zone that is the furthest ahead of London?
30. What is the name for what is basically an induction coil whereby the voltage of an alternating current can be increased or decreased without changing the frequency?
31. At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, Canadian athlete Ian Millar competed in his last of how many Olympics?
32. Which of these is the most recent series to be made starring David Jason?
33. Who was born in Besançon in France and lived 19 years in the UK's Channel Islands, prior to which he wrote "Notre Dame de Paris" ?
34. Who was Hugh Grant's female co-star in the film "Music and Lyrics" ?
35. Which of these was of French nationality?
36. Before its name was changed to "Washington D.C." after his death, what had George Washington named it?
37. The Dutch-based Stellantis N.V., formed in 2021, is a 50:50 merger between two internationally recognised manufacturing conglomerates from which countries and in what field?
38. During the reign of which English king was there a succession crisis between his supporters and those of his cousin, the Empress Matilda?
39. The islands of Zanzibar and Madagascar are in which ocean?
40. Which of these US cities is the southernmost?
41. Big Daddy Pollitt is a character in which Tennessee Williams play?
42. Which tree native to Mexico, South America and Central America, part of a family of flowering plants, produces a fruit (technically a large berry) that contains a pit which may be egg-shaped or spherical?
43. Which of these was last to occupy the post of British Prime Minister?
44. Which of these was released in 2018 with the statement that the next album by the artist would be the last released under his stage name?
45. Which politician issued a CD of love songs that he had written and co-written, in 2003?
46. New Yorkers Sarah Michelson, Sara Mearns and Pam Tanowitz are known for their work in what?
47. A "moog" was what type of instrument?
48. Which book about a castaway was written by Daniel Defoe?
49. Which of these was the last to make its debut on British TV?
50. Which state in the USA is equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, containing both the geographic centre of the 48 contiguous USA states and the geodetic centre of North America?
51. The 2009 Super Bowl, played at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, was between the Arizona Cardinals and what other team?
52. Stanley Matthews typically played which position for the English football team?
53. When and where was the subsequently-named "Liberty Bell" hung in America?
54. Mahé Drysdale, Rebecca Scown, Juliette Haigh, Hamish Bond, Eric Murray, Pete Reed, Andrew Triggs Hodge, Ondrej Synek and Alan Campbell have been international competitors in which sport?
55. The traditional boomerang is made out of what?
56. In the Rio 2016 Summer Paralympics, the Olympic torch was toured through 5 Brazilian cities plus where else before creating the Olympic Flame?
57. Which 600-seat opera house was built in Sussex by John Christie in 1934 as a tribute and memorial to his wife, Audrey Mildmay?
58. What "Bridge" is the name of a home to a London football team and was the venue for precursor battle to the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
59. Who dies at the end of Shakespeare's tragedy "Troilus and Cressida" ?
60. What is the main criterion for calling a fruit a "drupe" ?
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