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General Knowledge Quiz 40 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of these was a French writer who is known especially for his first published novel, "Madame Bovary" (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style?
2. For which novel, a study of provincial life published in 1856, was the author, Gustave Flaubert, and his publisher prosecuted for "an offence against morals" ?
3. What do we know from childhood goes "twinkle twinkle", "up above the sky so high like a diamond in the sky" ?
4. What weapon used in the middle ages had the cord of a bow fixed in a notch and an iron bolt released from it by a trigger?
5. What type of highly directional microphone, commonly used on television and film sets, in stadiums, and for field recording of wildlife, was invented by Fritz Sennheiser in the 1950s?
6. BCG is a vaccine, the only one currently recognised by the World Health Organisation, for what disease?
7. What former Australian prime minister was nominated for the position of president of the International Cricket Council from 2012?
8. Which women's squash player won the World Open four times (1985, 1987, 1990 & 1992) and the British Open eight times?
9. What is grown particularly in the wide shallow seas off the island of Okinawa in Japan?
10. Which famous artist and ornithologist is the son of an Antarctic explorer and adventurer?
11. The Northern Lights can be seen from which?
12. What politician or world leader is co-author of the book 'Judo:History, Theory, Practice' (2004)?
13. In the 2003 film "What A Girl Wants", Amanda Bynes played the illegitimate daughter of a British politician played by whom?
14. The left and right ventricles and the left and right atriums are found where in the human body?
15. John Carr, one of a renowned family of biscuit makers in Carlisle in the United Kingdom, is particularly remembered for creating what, first marketed in 1861 and still popular?
16. What are oysters wrapped in bacon called?
17. What is the title of ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard's autobiography, published in October 2010?
18. In 2014, Yan Bingtao from China became the youngest ever amateur snooker world champion when he won the IBSF World Snooker Championship. How old was he?
19. Who married Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953?
20. Which of these is a type of shark?
21. What is the relationship between the words "bridle" and "bridal" ?
22. Guru Nanak established what in India in the late 15th and early 16th centuries?
23. What is one expected to do in a dormitory?
24. Which new year has ever started on 16 July?
25. What chemical element, a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal, was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston, who named it after an asteroid?
26. Which of these is a compound word?
27. In England, the monarch has the power of veto over any proposed legislation from Parliament by withholding the Royal Assent. Who last used this power?
28. Who wrote the line "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree" ?
29. Who in 2018 is the most recent in the series:Rosalynn, Laura, Hillary, Michelle ..... ?
30. The shape of South America's eastern coastline closely echoes ..... ?
31. Where is Lake Placid, the venue for the 1980 Winter Olympics?
32. Serengeti National Park is on what continent?
33. Who won his third rowing Olympic gold medal with Steve Redgrave in 2000?
34. Where is the Greater Maghreb?
35. What children's game uses the phrase "What's the time?"
36. Who won the World Surfing Championship in December 2009?
37. Trajan, Titus, and Nerva were all what?
38. "Pigs in the pen", "over the fence", and "eggs in the basket" are terms for plays in some versions of which game?
39. What does the "B" stand for in the civil order known in the UK and Ireland as ASBO?
40. When in trouble, which of these characters might reach for the "Lasso of Truth" ?
41. Which of these does not refer to a day of the week?
42. The libretto for Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" was based on a play written by the playwright Victorien Sardou for performance by which actress?
43. Which of these was a landmark of the ancient city of Babylon?
44. What phrase means "a death blow intended to end the suffering of a wounded creature", literally "blow of mercy" ?
45. What does the "I" stand for in the acronym "FBI" ?
46. Which of these is the meaning of the abbreviation "RP" ?
47. What was the name of the bald bespectacled scientist and his assistant in the Muppet Show?
48. A game originating in Mexico, much loved by Henri III of France and highly popular in many countries currently, particularly with children, is called (in English) ..... ?
49. In falconry what is a tiercel?
50. What sort of animal is Beatrix Potter's "Mrs Tiggy-Winkle" ?
51. In snooker, what colour ball scores 5 points?
52. According to the Hebrew bible who was the oldest man ever to live?
53. What kind of gemstones are the Cullinane and the Hope?
54. How many players per side are allowed on the field in a game of rugby league?
55. Lin-Manuel Miranda created the music, lyrics and a book for what?
56. Where would one see a flipper, teesra, off cutter or carrom?
57. What number do you get if you add all of the 7 Roman numerals?
58. Over its thousands of islands Indonesia officially recognises the religions of Christianity (Protestantism and Catholicism), Confucianism, Islam, Hinduism and what other?
59. Which of these borders Canada and the state of New Hampshire, and is the most north easterly state in the USA?
60. Where is the majority of the wine production in South Africa based?
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