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General Knowledge Quiz 51 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the more common name for the white crystalline salt called hydrated sodium pyroborate?
2. The British child-killer, Mary Bell, a close ally of Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer, and the commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps, Franz Stangl, were all subjects of books by which biographer, historian, and investigative journalist?
3. Who composed the score for the 1948 UK film "Scott of the Antarctic" ?
4. Who published an autobiography in 2020 titled "A Promised Land" ?
5. A second century CE Roman, a Lusitanian Spaniard by birth, became the highest paid athlete ever, as what?
6. Which of these is an area in France?
7. What is the name of the largest city in Morocco and the Maghreb, Morocco's chief port, and one of the largest financial centres in Africa?
8. The Mississippi River is on what continent?
9. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier became better known as who?
10. In ballet, which of these terms refers to the position of the body supported on one leg, with the other leg extended behind the body with the knee straight?
11. According to an old English poem, who was slain by a dragon?
12. Uruguay is mostly what type of land?
13. Which word best meets the definition "The incline of the stage floor (or the theatre floor) away from the horizontal (lower at the downstage end)" ?
14. What is the name of the line separating the numerator and denominator of a fraction if it is written as a horizontal line?
15. Why have the semi-nomadic Charrúa people in South America almost disappeared from the record since 1831?
16. In 2019-2021 the inaugural world championship for men's cricket was held for which format?
17. The line "You're a selfish narcissistic psycho freaking boot licking Nazi creep" is from which song?
18. A "bench press" is used in what activity?
19. Christian II was the last king of where?
20. What are the first words of the 1851 song by Stephen Foster called "Old Folks at Home" ?
21. What are chewings fescue and paspalum?
22. Which of these historical figures is most associated with the year 1431?
23. In the acronym under which a US Act of 2001 is usually known, the PATRIOT Act, what does the last "T" stand for?
24. What links a 1999 version of Richard Adams's work "Watership Down" and a 1984 version of Lewis Carroll's work "The Hunting of the Snark" ?
25. Benazir Bhutto, prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993, was also the first what?
26. What is the capital city of Pakistan?
27. Arnall Patz received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 for his lifetime of work in what field?
28. What real person did Martin Landau portray when he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the 1994 film "Ed Wood" ?
29. A system called end-of-life services (ELSA) is one of many current initiatives being developed to do what?
30. What does aphasia describe?
31. In which year was the first robbery for which it is known that Jesse James was responsible, of the Davies's County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri, during which Jesse shot and killed the cashier, Captain John Sheets?
32. Which of these is a type of sheep?
33. The comic opera "The Revenge of the Bat" is more usually known under its alternative title of ..... ?
34. Who published the paper "Incompleteness Theorems" ?
35. Which of these places is furthest from New Orleans, Louisiana?
36. What thin, circular structure in the eye controls the diameter and size of the pupil and the amount of light reaching through it?
37. What did the British nickname the V1 rocket during the London bombing in 1944 World War II?
38. Which battle is most usually associated with the command to the soldiers of the defending force, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" ?
39. What light-sensitive tissue lines the inner surface of the eye?
40. What is an Afrikaans and South African English word for a roughly circular enclosure for livestock, surrounded by fencing?
41. Which group released the song "I Just Shot John Lennon" on their album "To the Faithful Departed" in 1996?
42. What unusual event marked the opening ceremony at the 1984 Winter Olympics?
43. Which US TV series, premiering in 2014, won its lead actor the 2015 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
44. In the English nursery rhyme, who fell down and broke his crown?
45. What was the name of the first nuclear-powered submarine, launched on 21 January 1954?
46. Which Lithuanian sport uses a hard rubber puck or discus called a Rypka?
47. Where is the world's widest street?
48. In which drink is tannin most often found?
49. What is the only breed of dog to be named after a character in fiction?
50. In 1984 singer, songwriter, and musician Marvin Gaye was shot. Who shot him?
51. Matt Groening is the creator of which of these TV series?
52. What country, including land from subtropical plains to sub-alpine peaks of over 7, 000m (23, 000 ft), and currently a monarchy, was rated in 2006 as the eighth happiest country in the world?
53. In geographic terms, what is Elmo?
54. What is one of the keystones of current biological theory, concerned with heritable change in successive generations of animals, plants and other living things?
55. What sport is played with mallets with handles 52 in long, on a field measuring 300 x 160 yards?
56. What is the longest written note still in common use in Western music?
57. WWE, which is controlled by Vince McMahon, is a publicly-traded, privately-controlled integrated media and sports entertainment company. What does "WWE" stand for?
58. What is the common name for peristalsis?
59. The first nationally formalised rules for which sport were drawn up by the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland in 1884, and now has two sets of rules, the other being . administered by the NRA in Great Britain, which was formed in 1943?
60. The Greek word for "work" is the derivation of which of these English words?
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