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General Knowledge Quiz 6 (60 MCQs)

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1. For which 1949 American film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, and Richard Conte, did Robinson receive the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival?
2. What is the early English name for the road that went from London through Lincoln and York to Hadrian's Wall?
3. In 1992, Vitaly Scherbo (USSR/BLR) broke the record for being awarded the most Olympic gold medals in one day (4) for which discipline?
4. Which year did the International Association of Athletics Federations first recognise a women's record in pole vault?
5. Where was Tempelhof airport?
6. On 3 June 1844, which bird became extinct when the last two were killed by hunters?
7. "Just So Stories for Little Children" (1902) is concerned with what?
8. People who speak Magyar are likely to be or have been native to what country?
9. Which of these is half a semi-breve?
10. Which of these would be involved in prestidigitation?
11. What year did the cable television network ESPN made its debut broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day?
12. Which of these books was written first?
13. Why did the MS Achille Lauro become internationally well-known in 1985?
14. Which British-Australian actor, voice-artist, political activist, Dickens aficionado, is the long-term partner of retired Australian professor of Indonesian Studies, Heather Sunderland?
15. The painting that has the words "ceci n'est pas une pipe" written on it, is by which artist?
16. Which sewing machine company has held a patent on the mechanism that creates the blanket stitch since its introduction in 1877 (the most recent patent renewal was in 2007), and is involved in litigation with several Chinese firms who are accused of violating their intellectual property rights?
17. What is the name of the small red oval mark painted on the face, common in Hinduism?
18. Which of these is used by a photographer to develop and print film?
19. Who is the Hamilton of the 2015 musical of the same name?
20. What British sitcom features Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone, immature, prosperous, preposterous, substance-abusing fashion obsessed Londoners who value fame and style over substance?
21. The form of meditation where practitioners slowly twirl, or whirl, is a part of what faith?
22. The storyline of Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" inspired which of these?
23. What is the title given to the widow of the holder of a title which has been passed on to another?
24. Except for a brief competition at Helsinki in 1952, the People's Republic of China (PRC) did not attend Olympic Games for some time because of the status of The Republic of China (ROC) within the IOC. When did they next compete in an Olympics?
25. What links the US, 2 May 2011 and Abbottabad in Pakistan?
26. What is used to find the pitch of a note?
27. Where is intaglio used?
28. According to the Old Testament Moses as a baby was found in a basket floating down which river?
29. The Irishmen William Burke and William Hare were famous for doing what in the early 19th century?
30. Bamboo is the main diet of which of these animals?
31. The surrounds of the village of Avebury, Wiltshire, UK, contain what?
32. Where did France begin its acquisitions in its first French Colonial Empire?
33. What music, recorded in 1986 in the Church of St John-at-Hackney, London, and released in 1989, became one of the best-selling classical albums?
34. What does the Greek word "electron" mean?
35. Since 1965, where has the headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) been located?
36. What card game, also known as Trente-et-Quarante, is played with 6 packs of cards, some of which are dealt in two rows?
37. What nationality is tennis player Roger Federer?
38. The London production of which play by acclaimed Australian playwright, David Williamson, won him the George Devine Award, the first time for a non-UK writer?
39. Who did the British fight at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879?
40. Colombia's principal river rises just north of the country's border with Ecuador, between which two mountain ranges?
41. What famous detective is played by Robert Downey, Jr.?
42. Where are boto found?
43. A mallet is used to hit the ball in which of these sports?
44. What launcher was used by the European Space Agency, the first of which was successfully launched in 1979?
45. "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!" is an example of what?
46. What monochrome painting by Pablo Picasso, painted during the Spanish Civil War, is 3.5m by 7.8m?
47. What is Canada's largest province by area?
48. Which car maker has a trident as its symbol?
49. In 1562 a law passed in Venice limited the colour of gondolas used there to what colour?
50. In 1692, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, Rebecca Nurse, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs Sr., George Burroughs, John Willard, John Procter and others were executed in connection with what?
51. Mercury and Venus are known as the two what?
52. In which decade was Elvis Presley born?
53. Where would you find a eustachian tube?
54. Jean de Ockeghem, composer of sacred and secular music, wrote in which century?
55. Leopold of Saxe-Coburg was invited to be the first king of what country in 1831 after it gained independence from the Dutch?
56. Where was the World Netball Series held in October 2009?
57. According to the Bible, who was told by God to build an ark to escape the Great Flood?
58. According to the Bible, which Moabitess married Boaz in Jerusalem and had two sons, Jesse and David?
59. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and New Orleans, Louisiana, what is the name for the day called Shrove Tuesday in Ireland and the UK where it is celebrated with pancakes?
60. What is a tabular display of the chemical elements, the invention of which is generally credited to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, who intended the table to illustrate recurring trends in the properties of the elements?
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