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General Knowledge Quiz 59 (60 MCQs)

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1. Stevie Nicks is mostly associated with which of these groups?
2. The first father and son win at the Oscars was in 1948 when John Huston won the award for Directing and for Writing Adapted Screenplay and his father Walter Huston won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Which film had they worked on together to win these awards?
3. Where are the Yaghan, or Yagán, people native?
4. Mrs Do-As-You-Be-Done-By features in what children's book?
5. What was the context for the 1858 Mahtra War, or Uprising, in what is now Estonia?
6. The discovery of the process of vulcanisation is most closely associated in the modern context with whom?
7. Where did Category 5 Hurricane Patricia in the Pacific, the second-most intense tropical cyclone on record worldwide, make landfall in 2015?
8. Who wrote a book about the US car industry, published in 1965, called "Unsafe at Any Speed" ?
9. Which TV series featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay that debuted in 2004 shows him visiting a failing restaurant and try to improve it in one week?
10. Cabo Delgado province is in the north of which African country?
11. The FIM is the global governing and sanctioning body of what?
12. Who was the 15th century woman who led a French army to relieve the siege of Orleans by the English army?
13. In 1829 a 20 year old already accomplished composer made his first visit to Scotland and was so struck by the mists and the power of the seas that he wrote what piece?
14. The yellowish pigment made during the normal breakdown of red blood cells is excreted through what?
15. By which of these names is the former Southern Rhodesia now known?
16. For what sport is the Cresta Run, built in Switzerland in 1884, used?
17. In the 1960s, who renounced his peerage to become British prime minister?
18. In 1818 Bernadotte became King Charles XIV of Sweden due to the influence of whom?
19. What science is concerned with the development of an embryo from the fertilization of the ovum to the foetus stage?
20. What is the name of the engraved stone, discovered in 1799, that provided a key to deciphering the languages of ancient Egypt?
21. The Netflix basketball drama, "Hustle" (2022), stars Queen Latifah, Robert Duvall and ..... ?
22. Who wrote the song "My Funny Valentine" ?
23. Which British TV comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s (74 episodes) was co-created and co-written by and co-starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie?
24. What nationality was Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1982 Nobel laureate in literature, celebrated novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist?
25. Which US President was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau in the Sixth Street Station of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in Washington, D.C.?
26. According to Greek legend, who was the muse of history?
27. In what cartoon series would Paddi, Beauty, Wolnie, Weslie, Cool Bro, Big Guy and Daisy be characters?
28. What colour are female Hainan gibbons?
29. Which of these wedding anniversaries is the latest?
30. Which 19th century English author wrote "The Book of Snobs", "Pendennis" and "The History of Henry Esmond" ?
31. Which of these was a ruler of the Aztec empire?
32. If an oblong field is 5 metres by 12 metres, what is the distance of the diagonal?
33. Which of these places is furthest from Paris, France?
34. Why is a Netball court divided into thirds?
35. How many sports were included in the first Summer Paralympics, in 1960?
36. Which of these players was signed by the "LA Galaxy" in 2007?
37. The Tien Shan, or Tian Shan, mountains lie to the north of which?
38. The slang words "cool", "groovy", "cat", and "chick" came from the jazz music culture in what decades'?
39. On 2 February 1997, Jeremy Sonnenfeld of Nebraska, USA, was the first to be recognised by the American Bowling Congress to do what while playing ten-pin bowling?
40. What phrase is frequently heard in London Underground stations?
41. Who is the author of the books "The Comfort of Strangers" (1981), "The Innocent" (1990), "Enduring Love" (1997), "Atonement" (2001) and "Saturday" (2005)?
42. Who was an 8 year old English girl murdered on 24 August 1867 by solicitor's clerk Frederick Baker in Alton, Hampshire:the body was found in a hop field, her head and legs severed, her eyes put out, her torso emptied and her organs scattered?
43. In 2023 Croatia adopted European what?
44. Who wrote "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" between 1772 and 1787 (published from 1776 to 1789) in 6 volumes?
45. Which of these events came first?
46. Which English king destroyed over 60% of the people and economy of his kingdom, in a campaign called "the harrying of the north" ?
47. Which one of these planets was not represented in the musical work by Gustav Holst called "The Planets" ?
48. What was involved in what the media called "the battle of the Carmens" in 1988?
49. Which 2009 film is set in 2154?
50. A hunter claimed to have seen what bird in 1688, thought to be the last recorded sighting?
51. Eric Clapton recorded an album with whom, called "Riding With the King" ?
52. Which of these is tallest?
53. Where would a syllogism be used?
54. In which general direction would you sail from New York to London?
55. Yemen, in addition to being devastated by civil war from 2014, bombings by external allies of the factions, and lack of food, water and medicines, suffered the worst known outbreak of what disease in 2016/7?
56. Which American situation comedy TV series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993 had a core cast made up at various times of Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth and George Wendt?
57. The line "Frailty, thy name is woman" is from what play?
58. Which of these terms describes a collective name for Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa?
59. What can be a symptom of the inner ear disturbance known as Ménière disease?
60. Apart from a brilliant scarlet pigment what is the main constituent of cinnabar?
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