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General Knowledge Quiz 400 (60 MCQs)

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1. Whose last words were reputedly "My neck is very slender" ?
2. On the Christian calendar, what name is given to the first Sunday after Easter?
3. Disputes between which two countries are called "Intifada", one uprising in which began in 1987, another in 2000 and another in 2005?
4. What is the name for the lowest point of a sound wave?
5. "Monticello" was the mansion owned by which US president?
6. Where is Timbuktu?
7. 17 year old Zac Sunderland made the world's news in July 2009 for doing what?
8. Which film, Alfred Hitchcock's first as producer as well as director, starred Cary Grant, working with Hitchcock for the first time, and Joan Fontaine, who won Best Actress Oscar for it?
9. Which of these players can be found in a cricket team?
10. Which of these is not one of the meanings of "kindle" ?
11. What shape are the individual cells in a honeycomb?
12. The Izzies or Isadora Duncan Awards are given in honour of Isadora Duncan who was a what?
13. A single flame gas burner frequently used in student science laboratories is named after whom?
14. After 97 years since being installed on a rock in Copenhagen harbour, the statue of "The Little Mermaid" left its place in April 2010 to go where?
15. Stalactites and stalagmites are formed from what?
16. Who was the first Pope to be elected to office in the 21st century?
17. Which is the strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania?
18. Which of these is a crustacean?
19. A campanile is built to contain what?
20. Which musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber is based on a book by Wilkie Collins?
21. Who, according to the Christian and Hebrew Bibles, succeeded King Saul as king over Israel and Judah?
22. In sport what does "OBP" measure?
23. The process to allow for the first three-parent babies using Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy (as distinct from mitochondrial donation) was approved in 2015 in what country?
24. When Alger Hiss, an official involved in the establishment of the United Nations was accused of having been a communist and then of being a Soviet spy, and took a defamation case against his accuser, of what was he convicted in 1950?
25. Who played Inspector Clouseau in the films made from 1963 to 1978?
26. What made 23 June 2016 particularly significant to the UK and Europe?
27. What is a "bichon frise" ?
28. What was the cause of the sinking of the "Lusitania" in May 1915 and the subsequent deaths of 1, 198 people?
29. Where is 0$^\circ$ longitude measured?
30. Which of the five Great Lakes of North America is the only one that does not border the US state of Michigan?
31. What is a collector of coins and medals called?
32. Since women's water polo was introduced for the 2000 Olympics, which country has won more gold medals than the next two highest countries combined?
33. The drink of the Gods is nectar:what is the food of the Gods?
34. An introduction which an author writes to his or her book or other piece of writing is technically known as a what?
35. What did Emperor Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, aim to achieve when he called the Diet of Worms together in 1521?
36. Who was elected President of Argentina in 1946 after a military coup and was forced to resign and leave in 1955?
37. When was the "Year Without a Summer" felt in most of New England, Atlantic Canada, and parts of western Europe?
38. How large is the team paddling in championship dragon boat racing usually?
39. What is the main constituent of the atmosphere of Mars?
40. What type of instrument is a sitar?
41. Which of these has a trunk?
42. Frank Lloyd Wright designed which of these buildings?
43. Who was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season Major League Baseball in 1927, a record broken in 1961?
44. The IAF formed in 1968 is the International Association for Falconry and ..... ?
45. Which American author wrote "The Song of Hiawatha" and "Tales Of A Wayside Inn" ?
46. In what TV series was the family butler called Lurch?
47. What is disposophobia?
48. In the various Conventions for SOLAS, in 1914, 1929, 1948, 1960 and 1974, what does the second "S" stand for?
49. Early in 2010, Norway's Magnus Carlsen, at 19 years old, became the youngest person to top the world ranking in what?
50. Who was sent by the African Association in 1795 to find the source of the River Niger?
51. Juan Antonio Samaranch was the head of which organisation from 1980 to 2001?
52. Which of these were the subject of a famous US court case in 1921, which resulted in their execution for murder on 23 August 1927 despite a public outcry and a confession by Celestino Madeiros in 1925?
53. What Gaelic word is used to refer to an impromptu party at the home of a mutual friend, at which stories are told, dances danced and songs sung?
54. All or part of Eritrea, Somaliland, Tientsin, Libya, the Dodecanese Islands, Ethiopia and Albania were ruled by what country in 1942?
55. In 2017 the actor, rapper, singer, writer, and comedian known as Childish Gambino announced he was retiring his stage name. In 2020, for his new album "3.15.20", what other name did he show in credits?
56. The much awarded American artist Twyla Tharp is internationally known in what field?
57. The national flag of which country features a map of it in a copper-yellow colour, symbolising large deposits of copper ore, with, to symbolise peace, two olive branches below on white?
58. By what name were followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea better known?
59. When did the first British monarch occupy Buckingham Palace, after its major remodelling by the architects John Nash and Edward Blore?
60. What is an item designed to protect from the sun?
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