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General Knowledge Quiz 56 (60 MCQs)

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1. Mt Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shares what characteristic with a very small number of other volcanoes?
2. In mathematics, what does the "P" stand for in GIMPS?
3. The first seasons of the American game show "Jeopardy" ran from when?
4. Which fashion designer created Madonna's clothes for her 1990 "Blonde Ambition" tour, which included the "conical bra" ?
5. Which of these is a study of soils?
6. In cooking or butchery what parts of an animal are known as lights?
7. Most of the Ozark Plateau is in which two US states?
8. Pure gold is denoted by how many carats?
9. Which of these points of a horse is at the highest point when it is standing up?
10. In 2019, machinery, mineral oils, sugar, meat and what else, were among the top exports from the country which generates almost half of South America's exports?
11. What do tendons connect bones to?
12. What is Sarah Fergusson's character called "Budgie" ?
13. Saratoga and Yorktown, USA, are the sites of the defeat of which armies?
14. Where is the natural habitat of the Steller's sea cow?
15. Who won the gold medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and yelled "Oh my God!" at least 11 times in an aquatic centre that was stunned into silence over her surprise win?
16. Ludwig van Beethoven originally referred to his symphony No. 3 in E flat major (Op. 55) by what name?
17. Which prophetess, the daughter of Priam, King of Troy, was killed following the fall of Troy by Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra?
18. The foxtrot, a dance introduced to Great Britain around 1914, originated in which country?
19. Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim are most usually associated with which work?
20. For much of his career the artist Charles Frederick Goldie painted what subjects?
21. Kim Schmitz is better known as who?
22. What does the chemical symbol Fe stand for?
23. In 2015 Lacy Thibodeaux-Fields brought a lawsuit against the NFL, which sparked a wave of lawsuits alleging wage theft, unsafe working conditions, gender discrimination and harassment. What was the occupation of Thibodeaux-Fields and the other people suing?
24. In the history of thought concerning natural rights, who said "we are born for Justice, and that right is based, not upon opinions, but upon Nature" ?
25. There are several world championships in the field of woodchopping or wood cutting; which of these is celebrated as the first one?
26. A tower in Boughton, Chester, UK, was built to manufacture what, following a process pioneered by William Watts in the 1780s?
27. What treaty ended the Second Boer War?
28. Which of these animals has the most northerly natural habitat?
29. Which of these is Selma Bouvier's sister?
30. What is the full name of the organism found in abundance in the mammalian gut, and used as the host organism for the majority of work with recombinant DNA, in early commercial work the bacterium of choice for cloning and mass-producing new materials?
31. Who is a South African serial killer who committed the "ABC Murders" between 1994 and 1995, with over 30 victims?
32. The legend represented by the statue (now in the Vatican Museum) of a father and his twin sons being strangled by two great sea serpents, shows divine punishment for what according to Virgil?
33. Which family of 3 painters depicted the life of peasants, paintings in which devils and witches appear, and landscapes?
34. Platelets fulfil what primary function in human blood?
35. What name is given to a positive whole number that can only be divided by 1 or itself?
36. What is the alternative title of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" ?
37. Which was a founder member of the group which became Destiny's Child?
38. What are traditional ingredients of the dish known as coquilles saint jacques?
39. What was the name of the group that invaded the Olympic village at Munich in 1972, killing 2 Israelis and holding 9 others hostage, resulting in a firefight killing 15 people, including all the athletes and 5 terrorists?
40. Which volcano, on the island of Sumatra, erupted in 2010 after a 400 year dormancy and has erupted every year from 2013 to 2019 including frequent volcanic earthquakes?
41. Where was the Polisario Front formally constituted in 1973?
42. What is a name given to a pointless, long drawn out story?
43. In 2006, which country announced that it was withdrawing from test match cricket for 12 months?
44. On 4 July 2009, Joey Chestnut logged his third consecutive win with a new world record in what annual contest?
45. What are Taklimakan, Badain Jaran, Gurbantunggut, Shapotou (or Shatuotou) and Tengger?
46. A preliminary framework agreement was reached in April 2015 between eight parties including the United Kingdom, Russia, France, the USA, the People's Republic of China, Germany plus the European Union over what issue?
47. Yerevan is a city in which country?
48. Which of these people writes right handed?
49. What does the "C" stand for in the meteorological metric known as ACE?
50. In Greek and Roman mythology, who is the son (with a twin sister, Artemis) of Zeus and Leto, who has been worshipped as a god of a number of responsibilities, including light, the sun, truth, prophecy, archery, medicine, healing, music, poetry and the arts?
51. What are bell boots usually made of?
52. What can Ehlers-Danlos syndrome relate to?
53. How many planets orbit the sun between it and Earth?
54. Havana is closest to which extremity of Cuba?
55. A repeated brief memorable phrase or figure in pop music is called which of these?
56. In which event did Suriname, in 1988, win its first Olympic medal?
57. The Council of Trent in the 16th century was held between believers of what religious faith?
58. Which of these is a dance-theatre version of a Tim Burton film, choreographed by Matthew Bourne with a score adapted from Danny Elfman's film themes by Terry Davies, that opened at Sadler's Wells, London, in December 2005?
59. Which film starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton was set mainly on a ship at sea?
60. Formaggio marcio is notable for containing what?
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