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General Knowledge Quiz 7 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which was the 2013 sci-fi film which scored an Oscar for Best Director and starred Sandra Bullock and George Clooney?
2. Which of these is a musical expression?
3. From 1618 the Thirty Years War between Catholic and Protestant countries in the Holy Roman Empire, in 1632 became a fight between the Hapsburgs and Spain on one side against who on the other?
4. The "Missouri Compromise" allowed which state to join the USA in 1820 to balance the admission of Missouri?
5. In the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies an annual television licence fee is charged to households, businesses, schools etc; there is an exemption for households where at least one member is over what age?
6. Who was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London for aiding the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie after the Battle of Culloden to Portree, Skye and thence to Glam on the island of Raasay?
7. Who created the comic strip "The Wizard of Id" ?
8. Who emerged as the top Chinese Communist leader during the "Long March" in 1934?
9. Michelangelo's famous frescoes are on the ceiling of what area of the Vatican?
10. Life on Mars, the popular UK TV series from BBC Wales 2006-7, with UK sequel and spin-offs in the USA, Spain and Russia, was earlier declined by the BBC for what reason?
11. What is the name of a Japanese dish consisting of noodles and broth?
12. Which computer game takes place in Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas, which suffer from rampant crime, feuding between crime syndicates, random acts of violence from street gangs, organized thievery and murder, and corrupt city officials and police?
13. On what does the cast of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical "Starlight Express" perform?
14. What was the nickname of tennis star John McEnroe?
15. What word is applied to someone who is equally capable with both hands?
16. Since 2014 where has the UK documentary series "24 Hours in A & E" been set?
17. What does "sieg" mean in the Nazi salute of "sieg heil" ?
18. In what type of communication is the phrase "over and out" (mistakenly) said to be a correct response?
19. In wine tasting, what term is used to describe the tracks of liquid that cling to the sides of a glass after the contents have been swirled, which is often said to be related to the alcohol or glycerol content?
20. Which is a pre-cancerous condition?
21. What unfortunate link do Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes have?
22. Which of these is an American vulture of the Andes?
23. Which of these was not one of the first three countries to receive an internationalised country code top-level domain (i.e. that employs a non Latin alphabet) in the Internet Domain Name System?
24. Which of the following was largely responsible for the British application of radar in World War II?
25. When Russia became a communist state in 1918 with Lenin as virtual dictator, who was his foreign secretary?
26. Which BBC drama series, starring Peter Davison, Graham Crowden, David Troughton and Barbara Flynn, was rated in 2010 by "The Guardian" as 5th in their list of "The Top 50 TV Dramas of All Time" but ran for only 2 series, in 1986 and 1988?
27. Which country declared war on Mexico on 13 May 1846?
28. The islands of Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii and New Caledonia are in which ocean?
29. According to The Bible, who was the older brother of Moses, who set up a golden calf on Mt Sinai for people to worship?
30. Which of these seas is not on the coast of Asia?
31. Which of these developed an early version of a computer in the 19th century?
32. The London embassy of which country was seized in 1980 by gunmen demanding the release of political prisoners?
33. Magnus Carlsen, on the way to becoming World Champion, was frequently the world's youngest what?
34. The award-winning 1982 film "Gandhi" was filmed in the UK and what other country?
35. Who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" ?
36. What was the name of the wife of Herman Munster?
37. Which author, poet, playwright, actor, Shintoist and nationalist committed seppuku in 1970 after declaring "Long live the Emperor" ?
38. What relationship had the Sword of Damocles to Damocles?
39. Why was the annual steeplechase known as the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the most valuable non-handicap chase in Britain, not run in 2001?
40. What play is seldom referred to in theatre by its own name but called instead "the Scottish play" ?
41. A galley, in relation to a book, is something to ..... ?
42. A hit single for Queen was "Radio ..... What?"
43. In the expression "spill the beans" what are the "beans" ?
44. Who was the first Englishman to lead an expedition to circumnavigate the earth by sea, and died of dysentery in the West Indies 16 years later?
45. Sangha Trinational park, home to important populations of forest elephants, critically endangered western lowland gorilla, and endangered chimpanzee, is on land in the territories of which three countries?
46. "Devil" was the pet wolf of which comic strip character?
47. In a 1545 book Roger Ascham invented a word, "toxophily", meaning what?
48. The autonomous region of Catalunya is in which country?
49. Which of these capital cities is not on the River Danube?
50. Grytviken is a settlement on which very cold island, or group of islands?
51. What is the English chalk plain crossed by the Avon that includes the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Amesbury?
52. Where would you find the mosques of El Hakim, Amru, Hason, El Maayyad and El Sunkur?
53. "Rolling Stone" described the song "Dancing On My Own" by which artist as the best of the 2010s?
54. The American fantasy drama television series featuring the characters Shadow Moon and Mr. Wednesday is based on and named after which book?
55. In "The Terminator", a 1984 film directed and co-written by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger had the famous line: "I'll be ..... '' what?
56. Which state of the USA has a 389-mile (626 km) international border with the states of Sonora and Baja California in Mexico, and despite being the largest fully landlocked US State by population is sometimes considered part of the West Coast region?
57. Marked what in Iceland?
58. Where was the 2008 Ryder Cup competition held?
59. Which 1998 film, directed by Peter Weir and starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich and Natascha McElhone, depicts a man discovering that his day to day life is actually a television show?
60. Whose relationships have been the subject of speculation in the celebrity press, and has been romantically linked with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Heidi Klum, Jessica Simpson, Minka Kelly and Jennifer Aniston?
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