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General Knowledge Quiz 74 (60 MCQs)

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1. The 1963 American comedy film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", centring on pursuit of stolen cash, starred which actor well-known for drama but not necessarily for comedy?
2. What are Boron, Silicon, Germanium, Arsenic and Antimony?
3. Art Garfunkel performed which tune as part of the soundtrack of the film "Watership Down" ?
4. Launched on 4 March 2001 as the largest ship operated by the U S Navy, this aircraft carrier is named after which past U S president?
5. At what Olympic Games was the Olympic cauldron first lit by a woman?
6. Which of these became prima ballerina of the Marianski Theatre, St Petersburg in 1901 and appeared with her own company at the Covent Garden Opera House between 1923 and 1925?
7. Which of these cities has hosted the Winter Olympics twice?
8. Which Spaniard, from 1518, overcame Montezuma, captured Mexico City and became Governor-General of much of Mexico?
9. Temujin (1162-1227), who made his capital in Karakorum was better known as who?
10. Which of these is part of a golf course?
11. Trivial Pursuit was invented in which country?
12. Which of these is an epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe as General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is captured and enslaved and rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murder of his family and his Emperor that won five Academy Awards in 2000?
13. Who first crossed the Atlantic non-stop by air on 14 June 1919 in a Vickers Vimy from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland?
14. Where was playwright Samuel Beckett born?
15. St George's Channel separates mainland Britain from where?
16. A guava is a type of what?
17. What reptile, of which there are two living species, the American and the Chinese, got its name from the Spanish for lizard?
18. From 1926 to 1930 Jelly Roll Morton led which jazz band?
19. The global population of the Teviot flathead galaxias-the rarest New Zealand native freshwater fish and one of the rarest freshwater fish in the world-is found only in an area of less than a hectare where in New Zealand?
20. Which of these has the shortest wavelength?
21. Petroglyphic complexes in the Mongolian Altai mountains include three rock art sites which have been dated to about when?
22. What is the basic background for American fantasy comedy television series, "The Good Place" ?
23. Sleepers are used to support what?
24. On 17 May 1928 the Royal Flying Doctor Service made its first official flight in what country?
25. Which of these is a type of waterfowl with a distinctive extensive pouch attached to the lower mandible?
26. Elizabeth II and which other head of state opened the Channel Tunnel railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (UK) with Coquelles (France) beneath the Channel/La Manche?
27. Which noted waterfall falls from the edge of the Auyán-tepui mountain in the Canaima National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Gran Sabana region of Bolívar State in Venezuela?
28. Chicago is known as what?
29. The volcano Vesuvius looks down on what?
30. The first European landfall was made on the continent of Australia by Willem Janszoon in what year?
31. Which is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales?
32. Author and cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel published his more than 60 books under what name?
33. Aethelred the Unroed, his son Edmund Ironside, and Cnut (or Canute) ruled England in succession in what year?
34. What term is used to describe a light bodied white wine with noticeable acidity that is balanced with enough fruit structure so as not to taste overly acidic?
35. How do Grand Prix motorcycles differ from motorcycles used in the Superbike World Championships and the Isle of Man TT races?
36. Throughout his early years in Indonesia, who was known to his playmates and at school as "Barry Soetoro" ?
37. In the late 1950s North Korea instituted a measure called the Ch'ŏllima ( "Flying Horse" ) movement, that was patterned on a similar movement in what country?
38. Which of these forms the boundary between Colombia and Venezuela?
39. Which of these planets is understood to have the smallest number of moons?
40. What treaty was signed in Paris in 1815 after the overthrow of Napoleon, whereby Alexander I of Russia, Francis II of Austria and Frederick William II of Prussia agreed to apply Christian principles to the government of their countries?
41. What is a frog before it matures?
42. Guitarist Brian Rankin is better known as who?
43. In 2002 Swiss International Air Lines Flight 850 landed on a runway in Germany in a way that caused the plane to be written off, for what reason?
44. The Serbian physicist, Mileva Marić, was married to which other scientist from 1903 to 1919?
45. Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major (Op. 68) is known as what?
46. Who wrote numerous short stories and plays and the novels "Of Human Bondage", "The Moon And Sixpence" and "Cakes And Ale" ?
47. Who was the third wife of Henry VIII?
48. What natural ice 1, 212.5 metre (3, 978 ft) long racing sled run in the Swiss town of St. Moritz, based on a river, was built in 1884?
49. What is a melisma?
50. One of the influential and well-known findings of physicist and musician Ernst Chladni (1756-1827) related to what?
51. What was the name of NASA spacecraft that were metallised balloon satellites acting as a passive reflector of microwave signals, the first successful launch of which was on 12 August 1960?
52. What religious organisation was formed under the leadership of George Fox in the mid 17th century?
53. Who adopted Ziggy Stardust as an on-stage identity?
54. In a curling contest an ice sheet, brooms and a specially shaped "stone" are needed, plus potentially what else?
55. After what or whom are the two classes of elementary particles named?
56. What city was founded on the island of Manhattan by Peter Minuit in 1626?
57. On the Christian calendar, what is the day before Ash Wednesday?
58. In mathematical terms what is a definition of infinity?
59. Georges Pompidou, Prime Minister of France 1962-68) succeeded whom as President in 1969?
60. Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, known as Cortes, conquered which empire in the Americas?
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