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General Knowledge Quiz 48 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which river falls over the Angel Falls, Venezuela, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall?
2. The IATF (formed in 2016 in Canada) and the WATL (formed in 2017 by Canada, USA, Brazil and Ireland) organise world championships in what sport?
3. "A Whiter Shade of Pale", released 12 May 1967, was the debut song by which band?
4. The 12th century Welsh cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth is known for his writings on what?
5. In the Middle Ages, what were "hauskarls" ?
6. Which military academy was established in 1802 on the Hudson River, USA?
7. What are the Russian steppes?
8. Which band had a hit record in 1980 with "London Calling" ?
9. The songs "I'm Free", "Sensation", "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "Sally Simpson" are from which album by The Who?
10. The rights to which book, begun in 1768 by William Smellie and completed in 1771 and continually revised, were bought by Sears, Roebuck of Chicago, Illinois, USA in 1920?
11. Who is referred to by the "Ig" in Ig Nobel prizes?
12. Which of these is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Jim Steinman, which was based on a 1961 film?
13. In Swansea, Wales, UK, what public service closed in 1961 after being open in various forms since 1807, when it was the first of its kind at that time to be put in service?
14. What type of instrument is a "celeste" ?
15. Which of these is a word for poetry which has trite, clichéd, or overly sentimental content, forced or imprecise rhymes, faulty metre or misordering of words to force correct metre?
16. Who patented the phonograph in 1878 (after developing and demonstrating it the previous year)?
17. Which of these, one of the two most powerful battleships built by Germany in World War II, was destroyed while hiding near Tromsø on the Norwegian coast by RAF bombers?
18. Who is the writer for the TV series "Absolutely Fabulous" ?
19. What word describes a vertical window in a projection from a steeply sloping roof of a building?
20. What tennis tournament, first played in 1877, is the oldest in the world?
21. By what name is Iosif Vissarionovich Izhugashvili better known?
22. Which 1938 novel of growing up and its hard choices in the backwoods of central Florida following the American Civil War, was both the best-selling novel in the US for 1938 and the Pulitzer Prize winner for 1939?
23. What shape are the 6 faces of a cube?
24. Initially mentioned in a 1906 trade magazine, later described in Dorothy Levitt's book "The Woman and the Car", then used in Ray Harroun's racing car, what did Elmer Brigg call it after he patented it in 1911?
25. Suspension, hump and cantilever are all types of what?
26. Through how many of the 5 boroughs of New York City does the New York marathon run?
27. By what name is Mrs Montagu Barstow better known?
28. Which of these is not one of the four phases of the moon?
29. Norman Wisdom and Fulton Mackay, together with Judi Dench and Stephanie Cole, starred in which critically acclaimed 1981 BBC "Playhouse" TV play?
30. At 114.5 metres (376 ft) tall, the ArcelorMittal Orbit observation tower is Britain's largest piece of public art. Where?
31. Which of these dates has never been proclaimed to be Thanksgiving by US congress or president?
32. Which of these mountains is the highest?
33. A board marked in the appropriate pattern is needed for which of these games?
34. Taking 0 BC as a point in time (not a year in its own right), what is the last day of the first decade of the third millennium?
35. In March 2009, which teams were confirmed to contest the World Netball Series in October 2009?
36. Boules for competition pétanque are required to be what?
37. Project Habakkuk was a plan by the British in World War II to construct what from ice?
38. What is likely to be achieved by tedding something?
39. Which English composer, whose work included the operas "Koanga" and "A Village Romeo and Juliet" became increasingly crippled from 1918 and in 10 years was paralysed and blind?
40. What was the name used sometimes in Victorian times for the tower at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London?
41. Sasha and Malia are the daughters of which political figure?
42. Which plant genus, with species ranging from low deciduous shrubs to evergreen trees up to 18 m (59 ft) tall and native to areas of Eurasia and Africa, flowers prolifically with dense pink spikes?
43. What did the person or people acting under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto create in 2009?
44. In what sport are the "stones" aimed at the "house" ?
45. Which of these was the name of a mission to explore Mars?
46. Which American TV sitcom series, originally airing from 1984 to 1992 and set in Brooklyn, New York, USA, spent all eight of its seasons in the top 20 in the Nielsen ratings?
47. Considered by many to be the saltiest lake in the world, Don Juan Pond is found where?
48. What was Deep Blue known for in 1997?
49. Which Shakespearean play features a character called Iago?
50. Where is the Abyssal Zone?
51. Where are crossblades used?
52. As at 25 September 2017 who was No 1 in the tennis world rankings?
53. Which 1959 film is the story of a Prince of Judea accused of trying to assassinate a Roman tribune and exiled as a galley slave; he rescues a Roman ship's captain (who adopts him), then hears a sermon by Jesus and sees Jesus on his way to crucifixion?
54. What distance from earth does one have to get to qualify for NASA's definition of an astronaut?
55. With the history of which of these countries is Josip Broz Tito associated?
56. What men's golf tournament was held on The Hills Golf Course, a privately owned golf course in an area known as Arrowtown, in 2007, 2009 and 2010?
57. What is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel whereby tightly folded balloons are passed into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size using water pressures some 75 to 500 times normal blood pressure (6 to 20 atmospheres)?
58. Which country has the longest straight stretch of railway line?
59. Where are the Straits of Bonifacto?
60. Which award winning building was built directly underneath Waterloo Bridge, London, in the 1980s and has stalactites (from water leaking through the Bridge) growing in it?
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