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General Knowledge Quiz 55 (60 MCQs)

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1. Tsvetana Pironkova is involved in which sport?
2. What does the Beagle Channel in the southern part of South America separate?
3. The following people died from what cause:singers Karen Carpenter (1983) & Lena Zavaroni (1999), dancer Heidi Guenther (1997), artistic gymnast Christy Henrich (1994) and models Ana Carolina Reston (2006), Luisel Ramos (2006) & Eliana Ramos (2007)?
4. Who is the central human female character in "The Nutcracker" ballet?
5. Which of these TV series (1984-1996, 2020 on) features only satirical puppet caricatures?
6. In 1848, Mexico ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, officially ceding what to the USA?
7. Which US government official is the equivalent of the British Foreign Secretary?
8. SailGP 2022-23 sailed in Bermuda, USA, England, Denmark, France, Spain, UAE, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and, finally, where?
9. The 1492 voyages of Christopher Columbus which ended in the New World were taken under the auspices of which country?
10. Which bird, that breeds in northern Europe in pine and beech forests, has a chestnut brown back, grey head, dark tail, buff breast and a striped black throat?
11. Complete the title of this James Bond film: "The World Is Not ..... ''
12. The Trans-Siberian Railway is the third longest continuous rail service and spans how many time zones?
13. Which war, from 1853 to 1856, was between Turkey and Sardinia together with (from 1854) Britain and France, on one side and Russia on the other?
14. To what country is the Shinto religion indigenous?
15. What office did James Schlesinger not hold in 1973 under US President Gerald Ford?
16. Tinnitus affects what part of the body?
17. Which Latin poet wrote "Satires", "Epodes", "Epistles" and "Carmen Seculare" ?
18. What is a dart board usually made from?
19. What is the name of the classic English horse race run at Epsom, the day before the Derby?
20. The first recorded fatality of a car accident in the USA was Henry Bliss, on 13 September 1899. Where was it?
21. What or who is the Mabinogion?
22. In Japan they are a symbol of luck, longevity and fidelity, and are white birds with black-tipped wings and throat plus what else?
23. When the USSR re-occupied Estonia, first in 1940 and then 1994 to 1991, what was one of the tools of its rule?
24. Which of these words can be applied correctly to 97% of all animal species?
25. Which illustrator, born in what is now Haiti, raised in France, and an immigrant to America at 18, turned early observations and a hobby into creating work which included a book which was published in Britain and which is now considered a classic?
26. For the 2020/2021 year the US Mint confirmed that the cost of manufacturing the cent and the nickel (the 5 cent coin) was what?
27. What metal instrument, 10 to 12 inches long, is used to unfasten knots and loosen rope strands for splicing?
28. The Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in north-western South Africa, is mainly what type of land?
29. What was patented in London by Ralph Wedgewood in 1806?
30. Marie Curie, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911), was born where?
31. The Ironman World Championship, which has been held annually in Hawaii since 1978, with an additional race in 1982, involves which sport?
32. In which sea is The Grenadines island chain?
33. Which US vice presidential candidate made "The Checkers speech", an address on TV and radio on 23 September 1952, which was an early example of a politician using television to appeal directly to the electorate?
34. The animal has had legal protection in its country since 1895, and is the only living member of the more than 200 million year old order Rhynchocephalia. What is it?
35. When in trouble, which of these characters might reach for a utility belt?
36. Which of these ships was built last?
37. What is a disease of the bone, estimated to affect 2-3 million across Tibet, north-eastern to south-western China, South Siberia, and Korea?
38. How many members are there in the Italian lower house, the Chamber of Deputies?
39. Which one of these could be seen as a mixed metaphor?
40. What thick rich soup is made from lobster or shellfish?
41. What singer recorded with the E Street Band?
42. Up until May 2016 what was the home ground of the UK's West Ham United Football Club?
43. Who, on 2 October 1925, transmitted a picture of William Taynton, an office boy from the offices on the floor below his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in Soho, London, from one room to another?
44. What body of water is 86 feet (26 meters) below sea level?
45. Which of these is a Jacob's Ladder?
46. Which of these has a stub?
47. What principal Dickens character wears a wedding dress throughout her appearance in the novel?
48. Measuring from the closest point of each of these countries to the equator, which is the furthest from the equator?
49. How many of the Great Lakes form part of the border between the U S A and Canada?
50. The Supreme Council of Antiquities was founded in 1859 by the French scholar and archaeologist François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (1821-1881), who specialised in what field?
51. Where were the first public performances of the 1956 musical "My Fair Lady", based on George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" ?
52. What was the overall aim of the three so-called Zimmerwald Conferences, held variously in Zimmerwald, Kienthal and Stockholm?
53. What is one of the three most populous cities in Africa?
54. Where is Husband Hill?
55. What form of presentation is named after Scottish clergyman James Gall (1808-1895) and German historian Arno Peters (1916-2002)?
56. In which of his plays did William Shakespeare use a trickster and itinerant rogue named Autolycus?
57. Which of these is a legendary place said to have sunk into the sea?
58. Karpal Singh (1940-2014) was known internationally as what?
59. A loan in order to outfit a ship or purchase cargo using the ship as security is known as what?
60. A landscape design feature, with one straight side and one sloping, is a ..... ?
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