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General Knowledge Quiz 69 (60 MCQs)

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1. What author's non-fiction work includes "The Fate of Man", "The Future in America:A Search After Realities", "Little Wars", "The New World Order", "The Outline of History", "Russia in the Shadows" and "A Short History of the World" ?
2. Which country returned to a democratic form of government after the death of dictator Juan Vicente Gomez in 1935?
3. What was astronaut Buzz Aldrin's first name?
4. Towards the end of 1781 the crew of the British trading ship Zong did what to conserve scarce supplies of water?
5. Most of the works by which author, who was born in Prague and died of tuberculosis in 1924, were published after his death?
6. Which of these is not a type of oak tree?
7. What phrase means "absolutely everything" or "all of the objects" ?
8. The stage name or pseudonym of which early 20th century performer means "eye of the day" in Indonesian dialect?
9. Whose 32nd album was called "In Search of the Fourth Chord" ?
10. What is produced from coarse aggregate, sand, cement and water?
11. Which of these is a women's golf cup, the equivalent of the Ryder Cup?
12. Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa & Andrea Dovizioso have competed in what sport?
13. Where is La Moneda Palace, the seat of the President of the country?
14. "Ode To Joy" is from the 9th Symphony by which composer?
15. Who wrote the music which inspired the theme tune for a slightly surreal British crime-solving and performance magic series, first released 1997?
16. Which country is made up of 176 islands, 36 of them inhabited, in 3 groups (called Vava'u, Ha'apai, and Tongatapu) which stretch north-south for 800 kilometers (500 miles)?
17. Which of these is part of the Indian Ocean?
18. What is American slang for a prison?
19. Where is Ho Chi Minh City?
20. What did the BALCO scandal, first investigated by the US federal government in 2002, involve?
21. The 1860 rediscovery by the West of what, is said to have led directly to France's adopting the whole area as a protectorate in 1863?
22. Which of these is a popular book by A A Milne?
23. The Thomas Cup, first offered in international competition in 1948-9, is awarded in which sport?
24. Which of these is another name for geranium?
25. The UK TV series "Doctor in the House", based on books by Richard Gordon, was set in which hospital?
26. In September 1912 what was declared the Australian national flower?
27. Which of these fish is the smallest?
28. Which of these was the last to come into effect?
29. What gives the fragrance to the traditional Mexican drink tejate's characteristic deep foam?
30. The plant called mallow is used as what?
31. What surface is tennis played on at The Australian Open at Melbourne Park?
32. What ceremony is sometimes called obsequies?
33. Which artist was given the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at Venice Biennale 2007, the first time it had been awarded to a photographer, or to an African?
34. What was the title of the novelty single released by the Israeli duo Esther and Abi Ofarim, number one for 3 weeks in the UK in 1968, that features yodelling and 1920s-style lyrics and music?
35. Before the capital was moved to the purpose-built city of Brasilia, what city was Brazil's capital?
36. What part of the body does arthrogryposis affect?
37. What is the closest city to the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator?
38. What describes Nyamuragira and Nyiragongo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
39. A filibuster is typically found where?
40. Who was the first British monarch to make a nationwide Christmas broadcast?
41. Which fabulous animal is attested to by Pliny around 77 AD, Aristotle around 350 BC and the Bible?
42. In which of these are all of a horse's feet off the ground at the same time?
43. The fall of the city of Edo, capital of the Tokugawa shogunate, in 1868 accelerated the final stages of what change in Japan?
44. What was the name given by the press to Elizabeth Short, a US murder victim who was found murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947?
45. Where is Petra, an archaeological site with rock-cut architecture and designated a World Heritage Site 1985, that was built by the Nabataeans as their capital city around 100 BCE?
46. Who were the parents of Ricky Nelson?
47. Which of these is used to measure energy?
48. Which of these is a punishment?
49. Who recorded the duet "Especially For You" in 1988?
50. Before 918 CE, when Alfred's the Great's son Edward accepted their submission, who ruled in East Anglia and parts of Mercia in England?
51. Which British singer, born Sandra Ann Goodrich, was known as "the barefoot pop princess of the 1960s" ?
52. The seven hills which lay within ancient Rome are the Capitoline, Caelian, Aventine, Palatine, Quirinal, Esquiline and which other hill?
53. What is the word for someone who arranges marriages?
54. Tierra del Fuego is volcanically active and sits at the tip of which tectonic plate?
55. A 1951 film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Kasey Rogers and Patricia Hitchcock was called "Strangers on a ..... what" ?
56. What was the main character trait of the Dickens character Mr Micawber?
57. Elliot Gould played whose father on the TV series Friends?
58. First appearing in English about the time of Shakespeare, what word means foppish, or, later, fabricated or tricked out?
59. Religious reformer Martin Luther famously burnt what letter?
60. Who is the subject of the 2021 biographical musical "A Wonderful World" ?
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