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General Knowledge Quiz 72 (60 MCQs)

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1. The explorer Abel Tasman discovered Australia and New Zealand in what year?
2. Who was made Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, introduced 2 prayer books under Edward VI, and was executed for heresy under Mary I?
3. How many languages are recognised as official in the European Parliament?
4. Which US holiday commemorates either a celebration by Spaniards on 8 September 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida, the arrival of 38 English settlers at Berkeley Hundred on 4 December 1619, or the Pilgrim's activities in Plymouth in 1621?
5. Which art form did all of Léo Delibes, Aaron Copland, Ottorino Respighi, Leonard Bernstein and Igor Stravinsky compose for?
6. Which Formula One team, based in Woking, Surrey, UK, and founded in 1963 by a New Zealander, has won over 160 races, 12 Drivers' Championships and 8 Constructors' Championships?
7. Bruce Dickinson, the vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden from 1981 to 1993, represented England at what sport?
8. A genus of colourful flowering plants, whose name means "daughter of the wind" is called what?
9. The peaceful overthrow of the government in Czechoslovakia in 1989 was known as what?
10. Which of these is an aid to hearing?
11. The father of which ex prime minister of the UK was a trapeze artist and a garden gnome salesman?
12. A radio call used in aviation or shipping to seek urgent attention can be "Mayday", but it can also be what other call?
13. Who defected from Russia to the West at a Paris airport on 17 June 1961?
14. The principle of lex talionis first surfaces in legal codes from where?
15. Which English-born conductor worked with orchestras in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Hollywood, New York and Houston, and collaborated with Walt Disney to produce the film "Fantasia" ?
16. The long-running British television show "Jim'll Fix It '' (1975-1994) subsequently became infamous in the light of subsequently revealed actions by whom?
17. The Pan-American Highway, a network of roads nearly 48, 000 km (29, 800 miles) long links the mainland nations of the Americas in a connected highway system, except for an 87 km (54 mile) stretch called what?
18. A person in disgrace is said to be in what?
19. How many degrees is the sum of the angles in a triangle?
20. In the words of a song by Simon and Garfunkel, whose words were written on the subway wall?
21. The naval battle fought on 2 April 1801 known as the Battle of Copenhagen was fought between Denmark and a navy from where?
22. Which king of England was overthrown in the "Glorious Revolution" that occurred in Britain in 1688?
23. Two immense carved images destroyed in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, by the Taleban in 2001 related to what faith?
24. The Oscar statuettes are gold-plated. During World War II, they were made of what material?
25. Which of these countries is crossed by the equator?
26. Who played the title role in the film "Saving Private Ryan" ?
27. Why is the most southern part on the South American continent, Cape Horn, so called?
28. Which sport is played with a goal 12 ft wide by 7ft high, with a maximum of 11 players from each team able to be on the field at any time?
29. Gumboot Day held since 1985, celebrating the gumboot and including gumboot throwing contests, takes place where?
30. About half the soils in South America are nutrient-poor sediment, soils leached of silica and containing concentrations of iron and aluminium oxides, acidic soils low in lime, or azonal soils consisting mainly of badly consolidated material known as what?
31. What is a device that allows electric current to pass through it in one direction only, used for converting AC to DC?
32. Who took the role originated by Jodie Foster in later films about Hannibal Lecter?
33. Tanzania was renamed in 1964. What was it previously called?
34. A rapid alternation of a note with the note immediately below or above it in the scale is known as what?
35. What compound is also known as vitamin B9 or folacin?
36. Which country held its bicentennial celebrations in 1976?
37. The nutmeg tree is important for two spices derived from the fruit:nutmeg and which other?
38. What device is designed to measure a gravitational field and changes to it?
39. What language does the word "orienteering" come from?
40. Which of these are not all single-celled organisms?
41. Where is the Chiloé Archipelago?
42. Which of these games has 225 squares on a standard board?
43. On 3 November 1902 a telephone cable was opened between Vancouver, Canada, and where?
44. Loki and Baldur, or Baldr, are names from what?
45. One of the longest running science experiments in the world stands in the 3rd floor lift foyer of the Department of Physics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. What is it?
46. Sony introduced a product to the world market in 1979, and in October 2010 announced that they would cease selling it in Japan. What product was it?
47. Which musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson won five Tony awards in its first year of its long Broadway run in 1957, including Best Musical, and the first Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album?
48. What does the word "enormity" imply?
49. What links Cartagena, Maracaibo and Barranquilla?
50. Which country is the only one to have won a gold medal in every Winter Olympics from 1924, the first, until 2018?
51. Where would you go to see exposed one of the most complete sequences of rock anywhere, representing a period of nearly 2 billion years of the Earth's history?
52. In the 90 years between the 1932 election of a President in France (the last before World War II) and 2022 with the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, how many French Presidents have been in the office for more than one term?
53. Who is the boss of the fictional Inspector Clouseau of the French Sûreté in the "Pink Panther" series of films?
54. In May 2010, a vending machine was installed in the foyer of the prestigious Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi to dispense what?
55. What is the word for a piece of material that is used to mend a hole in an item of clothing?
56. Which of these entertainments carries the highest rate of catastrophic injuries to female athletes in America?
57. In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" for no score in both innings of the same two-innings match?
58. The traditional song "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" is believed to describe which battle?
59. A type of work produced in the 14th century in Europe and later, often called faience, is characterised by what?
60. As a painter he focussed on intense psychological themes, his famous works including "Madonna" and "Puberty"; one of his works which exists in multiple versions and media is frequently stolen (and recovered), and in 2012 when one version was sold was at the time the most expensive ever sold at open auction. He was Norwegian. Who was he?
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