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General Knowledge Quiz 64 (60 MCQs)

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1. What marked the 1895 game in Canada between the Halifax Stanleys and Dartmouth Jubilees hockey teams?
2. Where is the Ocucaje Desert?
3. Which 2011 film, starring Emma Watson, Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Dominic Cooper, Julia Ormond, Derek Jacobi, Michael Kitchen and Judi Dench, was Watson's first film released after the Harry Potter series?
4. Which of these is a fictional character co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger which first appeared in Detective Comics in May 1939?
5. In musical notation, what word means "higher in pitch by a semitone" ?
6. What is the series "yan ..... giggot" most likely to be?
7. Which of these is closest to a galette?
8. Which German-born chemist split the uranium atom in 1939 and won the Nobel prize in 1944?
9. What song is on the soundtrack of the 2009 film "Inglourious Basterds" at the start of the section called "Final Chapter:Revenge of the Giant Face" ?
10. Plain unglazed pottery is often termed as what?
11. By what name was Dino Paul Proscetti better known?
12. The Academy Award-winning song "Mona Lisa", written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the film "Captain Carey, U.S.A", was a 1950 hit for which artist?
13. Which of these terms is applied to a humorous exaggerated imitation of an author, literary work, style, etc.?
14. Complete the title of this James Bond film: "Licence To ..... ''?
15. Rose and Jack were the lead characters in which film?
16. What infectious disease, occurring commonly in epidemics and caused by a virus, is characterised by blotchy rash preceded by a running nose and eyes, with a rise in temperature and lassitude?
17. Dick York, Dick Sargent, David White and Paul Lynde worked on what US TV serial which ran in the 1960s and 1970s?
18. All major television network evening schedules in the US were pre-empted on 16 January 1991 by coverage of what?
19. The fifteen elements with atomic numbers 89 to 103, which includes Actinium (Ac), Thorium (Th), Uranium (U), Neptunium (Np), Plutonium (Pu), Americium (Am), Californium (Cf), Einsteinium (Es) and Lawrencium (Lr), are known as what?
20. Colin Kaepernick, who became particularly well-known in 2016, is an American sportsman in what field?
21. Which American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who wrote "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "Buddy Bolden's Blues" claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902?
22. Which of these is a photographer, who captured (and help create) the high fashion and celebrity chic of 1960s 'Swinging London', who has been married to Rosemary Bramble, Catherine Deneuve, Marie Helvin and Catherine Dyer?
23. Which of these religions is the oldest to be recognised as an identifiable belief system?
24. How many volunteer hours were estimated to have supported the 2012 Summer Olympics?
25. The influential 1848 Cambridge University rules for football were drawn up with the participation of what groups?
26. Which of these is an English country dance?
27. Which 18th century playwright in which play, introduced the character of Mrs Malaprop who confuses words of similar sound?
28. Who was the star of the 1970s TV programme "Policewoman" ?
29. An ancient American two player war game called Patolli uses 5 or 6 dice together with how many game pieces and what shaped board?
30. In the human body which has more nerve endings?
31. Which US president was re-elected with the slogan "Don't change horses in mid-stream" ?
32. Where is the largest known land arthropod endemic?
33. From 1925 to 1935, what did the letters "MG" on a make of English sports car signify?
34. The largest river by discharge of water in the Americas, and the world, flows mainly through which country?
35. Over the course of 17 years from 1985 to 2002 what did actor Whoopi Goldberg complete, one of only twelve people to do so?
36. Which of these is a Pacific Island that is famous for its large statues?
37. Who was told by the Oracle at Delphi to perform 12 tasks after killing his own children in a mad fury?
38. What describes the relationship of e.g. "draggle" to "drag", or "topple" to "top" ?
39. What is wrong with someone who suffers from anaemia?
40. The statue called "Manneken Pis", of a small boy relieving himself, is in which city?
41. The mouthfeel of food is what kind of property?
42. Which organisation runs the annual championships for football teams in Europe?
43. What is the common name for Chorea, a disease characterised by irregular involuntary movements, commonly found in children?
44. Queen Anne of Great Britain suffered for many years from what ailment(s)?
45. What did the Romans call Scotland?
46. If the squares of the numbers 1 to 10 are added together, what is the result?
47. The young of what is called a squab?
48. Constance Heward and Joyce Lankester Brinsley are known for what?
49. Beginning in 1966 and proposed formally in 1980, Britain and Argentina looked at a "lease-back" deal over the Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas. What brought this to an abrupt halt?
50. The Za Qu River, later the Lancang, and eventually the Mekong flows through or beside six countries before it flows into the sea from Vietnam; where does it rise?
51. The Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, a street theatre troupe that toured the USA between 1971 and 1993 as the self-described "world's smallest circus" was a ministry of what religious order?
52. Who was the last monarch in the recently reunified kingdom of Italy?
53. Before 1962, when a 250cc class was added, what was the engine displacement formula for bikes in the World Motocross Championships when it was inaugurated in 1957?
54. Which of these would not be a name for a ghost?
55. What designer is connected with the clothing brands Purple Label, Black Label, Polo, Blue Label, RLX, Tennis, Pink Pony and Chaps?
56. The CN Tower which in 1975 became the world's tallest free-standing structure on land is part of the skyline of which city?
57. Which of these games does not ask for knowledge of a language as one of the skills needed to play it successfully?
58. When did the UK first open negotiations to join what became the European Union?
59. Where did Malcolm Campbell set a water speed record of 141.74 m.p.h. in 1939?
60. In Western films, what is a bar regularly called?
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