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General Knowledge Quiz 47 (60 MCQs)

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1. Michael Billington was a well-known English critic in what field?
2. Where was the US television series "Picket Fences" set?
3. When giant sea anemones which housed the anemone-toxin-resistant clownfish (also known as anemonefish) were deprived of their partners what was the result?
4. What city, also known as Hogbonou and Adjacé, was the capital of Dahomey and is now the capital of The People's Republic of Benin?
5. What or who are Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi?
6. What name was given to the fossils, discovered in 2004, of humans with large feet, that stood about a metre high?
7. Why did Lindy Chamberlain attract international media attention in 1988?
8. Why were the football matches-between AC Milan and Roma in May 2013, the FA Cup fourth qualifying round match between Haringey Borough and Yeovil Town in October 2019, and between MSV Duisburg and VfL Osnabrück December 2021-suspended or called off?
9. "Pomp and Circumstance" is the title of 5 marches by which composer?
10. Which ocean current flows along the west coast of South America?
11. Which of these is a criminal fraternity based in Japan?
12. In the 1950s, which country on the east coast of the Bay of Bengal was bordered by Pakistan, India, Tibet, China, French Indo China and Siam?
13. What is the only major US City (which was founded in 1701 by Frenchman Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac), that looks south to Canada?
14. Which of these sports uses an oval ball?
15. The two films "Pipe Dreams" (1976, starring R & B / soul singer Gladys Knight & her then husband Barry Hankerson) and "Joyride" (1977, with Desi Arnaz, Robert Carradine & Melanie Griffith) were about what US feature?
16. What was the name of the official news agency of the USSR before it broke up?
17. The "pre-Raphaelite movement" was about what?
18. What part of mainland Europe was English territory for 200 years from the mid 14th century?
19. In 1657, who turned down the opportunity to become King of England?
20. In May 1869 at Promontory Summit, a "Golden Spike" ceremony was performed to mark the completion of a railway across which country?
21. Which of these is a character in the "Back to the Future" series of films?
22. Who, on his 72nd birthday in 1951, was not persuaded by UPI photographer Arthur Sassehim to smile, but stuck out his tongue instead?
23. In 1970, Brazil's third victory in which tournament entitled them to keep the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently?
24. These are the last lines of which musical: "How many can I kill, Chino? How many-and still have one bullet left for me? DON'T YOU TOUCH HIM! Te adoro, Anton."
25. Where was the luxury hotel which, in December 2010, unveiled a Christmas tree decorated with jewels valued at $ US11 million?
26. Which of these words means the granting of powers from central government to government at a lower level?
27. Amyl nitrate is used in the treatment of ..... what?
28. The 15th century warring and conquering empire builder, Grand Prince of Moscow, who annexed most of the surrounding territories, renovated the Moscow Kremlin, and laid the foundations of what later became called the Russian state, is known as what?.
29. Which country held the most gold medals in the Men's European Volleyball Championship from 1948 to 1999?
30. The Governor of Missouri, Lilburn Boggs, issued an executive order on 27 October 1838, known as the "Extermination Order" that authorized troops to use force against which group of people to "exterminate or drive [them] from the state." ?
31. In the nursery rhyme, who put in his thumb and pulled out a plum?
32. Who was an American-born Greek soprano opera singer who had a public love affair with Aristotle Onassis?
33. Carbon is the main constituent of which of these?
34. With whom did CM Punk win the World Tag Team Championships in 2008?
35. What was Emma Bunton's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
36. To give or write a speech in praise of someone, would be to give what?
37. Which one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus is the only one found in the New World (i.e. Mexico, across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina)?
38. In cockney rhyming slang, what are "Apples and Pears" ?
39. Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the Pulitzer Prizes, made his fortune from what?
40. Which of these are two animated chipmunks created by The Walt Disney Company in 1943?
41. Which of these states is the furthest north?
42. Which winner of an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, a Tony and a Pulitzer, wrote musicals with Hart, Hammerstein and Sondheim?
43. The award from the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration in books for children and young people was given, in 1973, to the first what?
44. Who is a former British triple jumper who held the Olympic, Commonwealth, European and World records, and has held the world record in the event since 1995?
45. Which country rules over the Caracas island archipelago?
46. Who is George Dowd better known as?
47. "La Donna e Mobile" is an aria from which opera?
48. What lives in a "holt" ?
49. What was the nickname of the British army regiment called the "8th King's Royal Irish Hussars" ?
50. On a rifle shooting target, what is the name of the ring between the inner and the outer?
51. The Dungeness Crab, which first began to be fished commercially in the mid 19th century, takes its name from where?
52. Which of these is a Walt Disney film released in 1940 that features 8 segments set to classical music?
53. On 1 November 2010, the San Francisco Giants won the baseball World Series 4-1, their first World Series since 1954. Who did they defeat?
54. The Red River forms the border of Texas with what other area?
55. Ball, fork and sheet are all types of what?
56. The TV series "Torchwood" (2006-2011) is a spin-off from which other series?
57. What condition, often painful especially when standing or walking, is most common in the legs, because of higher blood pressure there when standing?
58. A tropical plant that grows several feet high with a large fleshy root containing an acrid milk juice, poisonous in its natural form, produces from the juice when extracted under pressure and purified, a staple foodstuff called what?
59. In what year was the first demonstration of a helicopter lifting itself organised by Louis Breguet and Professor Richet?
60. What are the first names of Torville and Dean, who were the highest ever scoring figure skaters for a single programme at the 1984 Winter Olympics?
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