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General Knowledge Quiz 49 (60 MCQs)

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1. Where are most of the oil, or bituminous, sand deposits in Canada?
2. Who wrote the songs "Suzanne", "First We Take Manhattan" and "Everybody Knows" ?
3. Who was Formula One Champion driver from 2010 to 2013?
4. According to the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church, how many "stations" are there in "The Stations of the Cross" ?
5. What did the country which later became Zambia and Zimbabwe but was at that time led by the European Ian Smith proclaim in 1965?
6. Which of these is a term used to describe a pathological fear of contact with dirt, to avoid contamination and germs?
7. In tennis, the annual Grand Slam season consists of the French Open, the U.S. Open, the Wimbledon Championship and which other?
8. Which King of Macedon created one of the largest empires in ancient history between 336 and 323BC, including most of the city-states of mainland Greece and the (then) Persian-ruled Asia Minor?
9. What number do the numbers on opposite sides of a standard cube-shaped die always add up to?
10. With what activity is Italian Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni associated?
11. In the fifth year of his reign the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV, or Amenophis, changed his name to what?
12. What would one normally do with velouté?
13. Before becoming president of the USA, Theodore Roosevelt was vice president to whom?
14. Which of these is another word for the thumb?
15. What measurement has been used for the magnitude of earthquakes?
16. What device emits light (electromagnetic radiation), which is usually spatially coherent, through a process called stimulated emission?
17. Who or what provides the service called "Street View", that enables computer users to take virtual walks of residential areas?
18. Which of these women is associated with Popeye?
19. Hugh Lofting wrote the stories which were the basis for which of these films?
20. What term is applied to the selective breeding of people?
21. Where was the most recent volcanic eruption in the contiguous states of the USA?
22. Where, apart from Australia, are monotremes found?
23. What is the next in this sequence:Madison, Monroe, Polk, Buchanan, Garfield ..... ?
24. The three disciplines competed for in the annual UCI Mountain Bike World Championships are cross country, downhill and what other?
25. Which city was hit by a 7.5 Mw earthquake about 160 km northeast of it, centred in the Motagua Fault, on 4 February 1976 at 3.01 am, local time, killing 23, 000 and injuring 76, 000?
26. What British ship was sunk by Gunther Prien, captain of submarine U47, on the night of 13 and 14 October 1939?
27. Who was president of the USA when Chiang Kai-shek and his National Revolutionary Army fled to Taiwan from mainland China, during the "House Un-American Activities Committee" under Senator Joseph McCarthy, and during most of the US involvement in the Korean War?
28. What pieces occupy all four corners of the board at the start of a chess game?
29. Who won the Formula One Championship for drivers in 2000?
30. What is the "boot" in the title of the 1981 film "Das Boot" ?
31. Which country won the most races in the A1GP championship in its first 3 years (2005-06, 2006-07 & 2007-08)?
32. Edward the Confessor became King of England in which century?
33. Massawa, or Mitsiwa, is one of the three largest deep-water ports on the Red Sea, and the major port for which country?
34. Most of the mountains in the world with elevations greater than 7, 200 metres (23, 622 ft) above sea level are found where?
35. The botanist who discovered the plant in 1769 named it bougainvillea for what reason?
36. What office exercises executive authority over the island of St Helena?
37. "Criteria" is the plural, what is the singular?
38. Which team came third in the 2002 men's basketball world championships in Indianapolis?
39. In the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove ..... ", the doctor, working as national security consultant to the president, was a sinister character with a heavy Germanic accent and darkly Teutonic attitudes. Who had the nickname "Dr Strangelove" when in public office in the 1970s?
40. Which UK TV series, hosted by Lee Mack, features celebrities putting weird, unusual and over-the-top hypotheses to the test?
41. Which gas is the most common in the earth's atmosphere?
42. Ramesses the Great presided over what empire?
43. The annual rock festival at Roskilde is held in which country?
44. Since the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour Masters 1000 was introduced in 1990, which former world number 1 holds the record for the most titles to 2010, with 17?
45. What is a linctus?
46. What is or are speculaas?
47. Which of these airlines is based in the Netherlands?
48. The International Game Fish Association rules specify that in freshwater fishing the double line and leader together may not exceed what combined length?
49. Who was Christopher Robin's favourite bear, according to books and poetry by A.A. Milne?
50. Quinsy affects which part of the human body?
51. Mukhtar Al-Bakri, Sahim Alwan, Faysal Galab, Shafal Mosed, Yaseinn Taher and Yahya Goba were collectively known as the "Lackawanna Six" and by what other name?
52. What is the name for the 'booklets' which form a book?
53. There is a ban on doing what on the islands in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway?
54. What is the next number in the sequence 0; 4; 36; 1, 444?
55. A "prickly pear" is a type of what?
56. What was the title of Britney Spears' second album (and the single that was released from it)?
57. The first of what event, organised by journalist Henri Desgrange in 1903, was won by Maurice Garin?
58. What is a feud where the relatives of a murdered man take vengeance on the family of those who killed him, for generations?
59. What is the name for the ceremonial meal which breaks the fast each evening in Ramadan?
60. Where were the two Battles of Grozny fought?
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