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General Knowledge Quiz 58 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the opposite of proximal?
2. What colour does the planet Neptune appear to be from space?
3. Who wrote the book "Angela's Ashes" ?
4. What is the international GATT agreement concerned with primarily?
5. What is the main language of the city of Abidjan?
6. Why did Denmark, in November 2020, decide to slaughter up to 17 million mink (all of its stock) which were the basis of an almost US$ 1 billion industry?
7. Which 1915 parody music hall song was popularised at the time by Ella Shields, later by Betty Grable and then Julie Andrews (all in male dress)?
8. In 1960 Prince Andrew was the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch since when?
9. An aircraft flying at 40, 000 feet can be heard to break the sound barrier when it achieves a speed of how many miles per hour?
10. Which Queen of Sweden came to the throne in 1632 around the age of 6 and abdicated in 1654?
11. Which of these can be used to separate gold from silver?
12. Argentina's second most populous city after Buenos Aires and home of the fourth-oldest university in the Americas, is in the centre of the country and sited in the plains and the foothills of which mountains?
13. 15 monarchs from the House of Plantagenet, including those belonging to cadet branches, ruled England from 1154 until 1485. Why were they called "Plantagenets" ?
14. The World Croquet Federation, founded in 1986, has 11 full members-Canada, the USA, England, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia and which other countries?
15. What was the first British picture to win an Academy Award for Best Picture?
16. Which of these countries does not have a coastline on the Mediterranean Sea?
17. What is a soft cheese made from skimmed milk curds?
18. The popular character Doraemon figures in the fiction of which country?
19. In 1956, British and French forces invaded a country in North Africa due to a dispute over which engineering work?
20. Who "ran through the town, upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown" ?
21. What character has been played by Howard Marion Crawford, Jude Law, Nigel Bruce and, in 2012, Martin Freeman?
22. What is the name of a famous concerto by Vivaldi?
23. What is the name of the office of someone who acts as a trusted intermediary between an organisation such as a corporation, professional regulatory body, or a branch of government and those outside it, to represent those outside interests?
24. What is the prevailing climate in French Guiana?
25. In medieval times, what was a chapman?
26. What design did William Fife III adopt as an icon, which he carved on the yachts he designed and built?
27. In astronomical terms, what is a conjunction?
28. What is the most popular sports competition in Australia?
29. Which of these puzzles was the most recently invented?
30. What word is given to the association of dissimilar organisms for mutual benefit?
31. Which 19th century novelist wrote "Westward Ho" and "Hereward The Wake" ?
32. Which album contained the song which, when it was released as a single in 2005, reached No.1 in the UK, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands and the US?
33. In what form were the tombs of the rulers in Kush in Nubia in the 8th century BCE and later?
34. For which two films has Michael Caine won Oscars?
35. What is the art of decorating materials with marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object?
36. In March 2021 the International Olympics Committee (IOC) enabled athletes from which country to compete at the Tokyo Summer Olympics (rescheduled from 2020) provided it was under a neutral flag instead of the flag of their own country?
37. What is the world's only alpine parrot?
38. The Irrawaddy, Chindwin and Sittaung Rivers run north to south in which country?
39. What colour is the cross on the flag of Switzerland?
40. How long, to the nearest mile, is an Olympic marathon?
41. Which is true of the 332nd Fighter Group of the US Army Air Corps, popularly known as "The Tuskegee Airmen", who fought in World War II?
42. Which Olympics saw observing environmental and sustainability issues become a criterion for the building of the venues?
43. John Donne is famous for which of these quotations?
44. In darts, what is the name of the line behind which the throwing player must stand?
45. Who, when discussing the power of a lever, is reputed to have said "give me but one firm place on which to stand and I will move the earth" ?
46. Which of these was painted first?
47. What is the term used to describe the collection of flowers in species that have more than one flower on an axis (sometimes called "composite flowers" ?
48. To what scientist was the line "Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department" attributed?
49. What was the mission of the two Voyager spacecraft sent into space in 1977?
50. The Eurasian and North American tectonic plates lie beside one another under which island?
51. Which of these is most likely to come "face to face" with a polar bear in its native territory?
52. Which of these is a wine descriptor often associated with Pinot Noir dominated-Champagne to indicate the sense of yeasty or bread dough aroma and flavours?
53. Which of these were invented by Elizabeth Beresford?
54. Which of these was a song written by Peter Yarrow in 1959, based on a poem by Leonard Lipton, who was inspired by an Ogden Nash poem titled "Custard the Dragon, " about a "Really-O, Truly-O, little pet dragon" ?
55. In 1878 the Princess Alice, a steamboat that took day-trippers up and down the Thames, crashed into another ship, sank, and pitched over 600 passengers into the river; 130 people were rescued but several later died. What was their death attributed to?
56. Which of these areas on the Asian continent has a shore directly on the Pacific Ocean?
57. Which of these is a London landmark?
58. Archimedes' name is still used today to describe what type of mechanical device?
59. Which is an ingredient sometimes used in making a meringue?
60. Which of these is a type of tea?
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