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General Knowledge Quiz 43 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who was licensed as a lawyer, cofounded a company that became one of their country's most successful and prolific entertainment studios, became a high profile name in their country and eventually led the country in disrupted and deeply troubled times?
2. "Imagination encircles the world" is an example of what figure of speech?
3. Which of these are found in the blood?
4. Taking part of a sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or sound in a different sound work is usually referred to as what?
5. What was one aspect characterising the races for the Louis Vuitton Cup in 2013?
6. Where would a customer find "silver service" ?
7. About how long would it take for bell ringers to ring a complete peal of 12 bells, i.e. with all its permutations?
8. Where was the basis of Skype, the software that enables video and voice calls to be made via the internet, originally developed?
9. A waltz is characterised by the rhythm of three whats in a bar?
10. Cotopaxi in Ecuador is what?
11. In 2005 what did Dame Ellen MacArthur's name became known for internationally?
12. Who published almost 100 books on many subjects, including the autobiography "My Life and Times" (10 vols, 1963-1971), "The Four Winds Of Love" (6 vols, 1937-45), "Whisky Galore" (1947) and "Monarch of the Glen" (1941)?
13. Until the Simpsons came along, what was the most successful TV cartoon series?
14. By what name is the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus better known?
15. What was Harry Buermeyer's club in 1878 when he became the first official amateur heavyweight boxing champion in America?
16. When was the Company of Scottish Archers, thought to be one of the oldest sporting bodies in the world, formed?
17. Which Saint's Day is 17 March?
18. Official Tug o War competitions use specially engineered rope to avoid what?
19. Which of these are from the musical film "High Society" ?
20. In February 2010, Joseph Stack, a 53 year old software engineer, crashed his light plane into Internal Revenue Service offices in which city?
21. Which of these is displayed in Florence?
22. What scale measures the hotness or piquancy of a chili pepper, as defined by the amount of capsaicin it contains?
23. The internal angles of a triangle add up to how many degrees?
24. French sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi (1834-1904) is best known for what work?
25. Which of these forms part of the southern border of the US state of Texas?
26. Which of these is NOT a virus or disease carried by mosquitoes?
27. What type of instrument is a lute?
28. Yale University is in which state of the USA?
29. In 1936 Austrian Josef Bradl did what, and christened a new sport which had World Championships by 1972?
30. Which of these countries is closest to Japan?
31. The geography of Afghanistan is varied but most of it is what?
32. What is the name for the study of the advent and evolution of biological systems in the universe, with particular emphasis on the possibility of non-terrestrial life?
33. What does the Little Abbay river flow into?
34. What is the name for the cloud formation which is suggested as a source of some sightings of UFOs (unidentified flying objects)?
35. The War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) was fought between the allied countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay and which other country?
36. What were Ronnie Hazlehurst and Ron Grainer in connection with the UK TV series, respectively, "Only Fools and Horses" and "The Prisoner" ?
37. Who, in 1901, won the Triple Crown in Major League baseball?
38. Why was the indie film "Donnie Darko" hardly publicised on its general theatrical release In America in October 2001?
39. Where, 25 miles West of Knoxville, Tennessee, was an Atomic Bomb Research Station set up in 1942?
40. Where was the first Women's World Cup, at that time called Women's World Championship, held?
41. In 2010, the International Cricket Council turned down a nomination for Vice President from ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard in favour of one from Alan Isaac, who was from which country?
42. When his Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, died on 9 April 2021, what happened to his title as Duke?
43. Which family includes Louis, a television journalist, his father Paul, a travel writer and novelist, his elder brother Marcel, a writer and television presenter and his cousin Justin, an American actor?
44. Wisdom teeth appear when?
45. The eldest daughter in the US TV show "Medium" (2005-2011) starred also as one of the central characters in which 2002 mainstream TV show?
46. Who, in 1831, first demonstrated that the motion of a conductor in a magnetic field generates an electric current?
47. Where did the 1976 Summer Olympics take place?
48. How old was Kurt Cobain when he died?
49. Where were the political movers known as bolsheviks and mensheviks active?
50. Players of the game of Nine Men's Morris, or mills or merels, need what?
51. Baron Scarpia, the villain of Puccini's opera "Tosca", has a striking resemblance to a real-life Italian baron of flexible loyalties and vicious tastes named Gherardo Curci (nicknamed Sciarpa) as well as to an infamous judge from where?
52. In 2013 actress Angelina Jolie very publicly did what?
53. In athletics, what name is used for the preliminary races that precede quarter-finals or semi-finals?
54. How can the land to the west of the Gulf of California be described?
55. Phil Mickelson is a professional in what sport?
56. Which of these was a siege gun used in European warfare during the 16th and 17th centuries which had a calibre of 8 inches (200 mm), weighed about 8, 000 pounds (3, 600 kg), and was designed to fire cannon balls weighing up to 52 pounds (24 kg)?
57. What currency is used in Thailand?
58. At which Olympic Games were some events held close to a major monument to a country-defining civil war and a site remembered for a racial oppression movement?
59. Actress, model and journalist Hailey Gates fronts a series called "States of Undress" on what cable TV channel?
60. A pangolin can extend its long narrow tongue over half the length of its head and body; where in the body is its tongue attached?
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