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General Knowledge Quiz 4 (60 MCQs)

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1. With what type of music is Scott Joplin associated?
2. Who is acknowledged as the founder of Singapore as a trading post and European settlement in 1819?
3. Which is likely to be most useful in treating the symptoms of a cold?
4. Which Roman emperor, having seen a vision, tolerated Christians, became attached to the faith, and began the union between the Church and the Empire?
5. Where is the greatest tidal range in the southern hemisphere, second greatest in the world
6. Who launched a perfume called "Lovely"in 2005?
7. Which of these is a small glazed ceramic bowl used for the preparation and serving of food?
8. Which of these planets has the greatest extremes of temperature?
9. The membership of which British intellectual socialist group formed in London in 1884 included George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Ramsay MacDonald, Emmeline Pankhurst and Bertrand Russell?
10. Who adopted the surname "Mountbatten" in 1947?
11. In 1979 Briton Anthony Blunt was exposed as a Soviet spy. What was his area of interest?
12. Which of these was a hit single for the Beach Boys in the 1960s?
13. If you can see the Arc de Triomphe where could you be standing?
14. Which of these is not one of the great apes?
15. Of the various origins suggested for the Australian expression "fair dinkum", one is Midlands English; which is another popular one?
16. What is the "dermis" ?
17. In 2001 John Ruiz became the first Latin American to win the title of World Boxing Association World Heavyweight Champion. From whom did he win the title?
18. What was the fate of Mary Queen of Scots in Donizetti's opera "Maria Stuarda" ?
19. What is Neptune's main satellite?
20. Which of these films was set in the Vietnam War?
21. Which of these neighbours Egypt?
22. What part of a person's body does dysmenorrhea affect?
23. According to a song by Billy Idol "It's a nice day for a white ..... " what?
24. Bill Clinton is fairly fluent in which language other than English?
25. Marie Curie named which element in homage to her homeland?
26. The course for which of these sports might contain a "hairpin bend" ?
27. How long was the Hundred Years' War, fought between England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries?
28. In September 2009, where was it proposed to castrate paedophiles?
29. A film pitched to Ealing Studios in 1944 (towards the end of WW II), filmed partly in Switzerland and Norway, and released in 1948 starring John Mills and co-written by his wife, novelist Mary Hayley Bell, concerned which notable British person?
30. What are Memphis Minnie, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey most well-known for?
31. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Lee Chang-hwan of Korea broke the Olympic Record with a score of 117 points (though he didn't win a medal for it) in what sport?
32. Argentina encouraged a massive wave of immigration from Europe starting in 1857; between then and 1940 people from which country formed the bulk of the influx?
33. In 2016, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced what new award, to be presented at every Olympic Games, the inaugural presentation being made at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
34. Which of these is a man?
35. What is the literal translation of "Ave Maria" ?
36. Morgan Tsvangirai was a politician in which of these countries?
37. What actor co-created and portrays the fictional character Alan Partridge?
38. Who were Origen of Alexandria and Tertullian of Carthage?
39. The Southfork Ranch featured in which TV series?
40. Where is the approx. 186 km (116 mi) diameter Von Kármán crater?
41. On 15 July 2004, which country imposed diplomatic sanctions against Israel after two Israeli citizens, Uriel Zosha Kelman and Eli Cara, suspected of being Mossad agents, were convicted of attempting to obtain local passports fraudulently?
42. Diego and 25 of his colleagues caught international attention in 2020 when they retired to Española in the Galápagos Islands. Why was this?
43. John McEnroe has married which of these?
44. Loch Ness is part of which canal?
45. The Greek composer Vangelis composed the score for which of these films?
46. Which one of these could make a sauce?
47. Jacqueline du Pré was famous for playing what instrument?
48. Which 2014 American film, shot from the point of view of a computer screen, is a Skype conversation which gains an unknown user?
49. Which of these countries does NOT appear in the CIA's classification of "Western Europe" ?
50. Since 1954, when they started, where have the World Freshwater Angling Championships taken place?
51. What chemical compound that is a colourless solid is about 3, 000 times stronger than acetic acid?
52. "Rocket" is a type of what?
53. Genghis Khan was known by which of these names?
54. Which of these was especially famous as a tap dancer?
55. Covering 75, 000 square km, what is the world's largest river delta?
56. Excluding Australia, what is the third largest island in the world?
57. An unusual feature of which river is a submerged canyon and a waterfall parallel to the river instead of across it but seen for only half the year?
58. Which of these is not an element?
59. Where is the Menai Strait?
60. The character Chancey Gardener figures in which 1979 American comedy film?
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