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General Knowledge Quiz 46 (60 MCQs)

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1. Where was the Congress held in 1814-15, chiefly between Britain, France, Russia, Austria and Prussia, that adjusted frontiers after the fall of Napoleon?
2. When was the first live, international, satellite television production broadcast?
3. Table Mountain in South Africa is between Lion's Head to the west and what Peak to the east?
4. In the original meaning of "decimate", who is killed?
5. When was the football club now known as Manchester United first formed, and what was it called?
6. Which album by Fleetwood Mac including the single releases "Go Your Own Way", "Don't Stop", "Dreams" and "You Make Loving Fun" was #1 on album charts in Australia, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK & the USA?
7. What name is used by native North Americans for a house made of blocks of ice?
8. What kind of film is director/writer Jacques Tati known for?
9. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), a free trade agreement to liberalise trade and investment between 12 Pacific-rim countries, signed in 2016 was then renegotiated and re-signed in 2018 under a new name. Why?
10. Which typically characterises a seamount?
11. In America, as what was Bill Shoemaker famous?
12. In the Christian calendar, Maundy falls on which day of Holy Week?
13. Which of these is an antelope?
14. What does the annual Merrie Monarch Festival promote?
15. Ravel's "Bolero", pop music riffs and (often) suspense music in film soundtracks are examples of what?
16. What do the Imaginarium Studios specialise in?
17. Which of these is a unit of area?
18. What are bullion knot, lazy daisy and whipped spider web?
19. What is the next in this series:Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter ..... ?
20. Who wrote the music for the award-winning 1961 musical film for which Steven Spielberg directed a re-make in 2021?
21. Whose fictionalised account of a interview by Harold Bloom with Benzion Netanyahu and his family, including his son, Benjamin Netanyahu, at an upstate New York college in the late 1950s won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for fiction?
22. In 1950 a competition was held to build St Michael's Cathedral, Coventry, UK, after it was destroyed in WWII, and was won by which architect?
23. Who wrote the music for the musical "Mamma Mia!" ?
24. In 1980, Nikolai Andrianov (USSR/RUS) broke the record for being awarded the most Olympic medals (15) ever. What was his sport?
25. What instruments were used by the Haydn Quartet one of the most popular recording quartets, originally formed in 1896?
26. Which country launched an attack against the US naval base at Pearl Harbour in 1941?
27. What animals are the only characters in a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber?
28. In Norway, in December 2010, it was announced that 2, 000 of what animal had been fitted wth reflective collars or tags to reduce the chances of their being hit by cars?
29. Which country on the east coast of the Bay of Bengal is bordered by China, Laos, Thailand, India and Bangladesh?
30. What was the codename for the invasion of Sicily by the allied forces in World War II?
31. How many days are there in the last three months of the Western calendar year?
32. Where is TAB a part of the betting scene?
33. What character was played by Bill Cosby in his long running TV series?
34. Who is most likely to wear a kilt?
35. What was the name given to the period of Napoleon's attempted restoration, which ended with his defeat at Waterloo in 1815?
36. Which city will hold the Summer Olympics 2024?
37. Which of these is an ingredient of a "piña colada" ?
38. What was the name of those at the centre of the series of comic strips and books by Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author Tove Jansson?
39. Which of these actors is the youngest?
40. The US state of Kentucky is known "the ..... (what) ..... Grass State" ?
41. How did Rio de Janeiro get its name?
42. Edgar Mueller, Julian Beever, Kurt Wenner, Manfred Stader, and Eduardo Rolero are known for which form of expression?
43. Which of these was a 2006 American-Australian computer-animated comedy-drama film with music, directed and co-written by George Miller, incorporating some live action humans, that won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature?
44. Which of these is a dance form associated in its development in the 1960s with the Deepak family and dhol player Bhana Ram Sunami?
45. Which of these is an American rock trio formed in 1987, originally part of the punk rock scene, consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass guitar, vocals), and Tré Cool (drums, percussion) for the majority of its existence?
46. In basketball, what is the offence of running with the ball called?
47. Which of these people appeared in the film "Gosford Park" ?
48. Which country holds the most medals in the World Masters Games?
49. Which of these is a member of the crow family?
50. The name of the animal order Chiroptera derives from two ancient Greek words, one being "pteron", meaning "wing" . What does the other mean?
51. In July 2021 the International Olympic Committee recognised what sport as eligible to be included in programmes in future Olympic Games?
52. Glyndebourne is associated with what type of festival?
53. It was a TV series written by Russell T Davies (who wrote the 2005 revival of "Doctor Who" among many much-awarded shows), starring Lesley Sharp and Alan Davies, controversial, and given Best Comedy Drama in the 2001 British Comedy Awards. Which was it?
54. What was the middle name of Noël Coward?
55. At which Summer Olympics was women's football, or soccer, first included in the programme?
56. Who wrote the songs for the film version of "The Wizard of Oz" ?
57. Which UK webisode series, first aired in 2011, was created by actor, stand-up comedian and screenwriter Toby Whithouse?
58. Which state in North America has the oldest known currently living tree, age confirmed, in the world?
59. Which country is now, with the declaration of South Sudan as a separate country in 2011, the second largest country by land area in Africa?
60. Why was the Iron Age called that?
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