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General Knowledge Quiz 76 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is the surname of two sisters who are tennis champions?
2. What is young British artist Debbie Smyth best known for?
3. Who owned the fictional plantation of Tara?
4. The non-fiction book "The Invention of Nature" by historian Andrea Wulf is concerned with which scientist?
5. Which country's team won the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023?
6. In Greek mythology, which herald had a voice louder than 50 men combined?
7. Who wrote the lyrics / music for the musical "Chess" ?
8. After the death of his elder brother Tsar Aleksandr I, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich was declared Emperor of all the Russias on 1 December 1825. How long did his time on the throne last?
9. Which of these has the largest playing surface?
10. What was the experimental goal of the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971?
11. What was the sporting fixture called Baku 2015?
12. One win away from eventing's Grand Slam in the UK in 2013, New Zealand equestrian Jock Paget had what mishap?
13. When did Circassia, or Adiga Xheku, a land in the North Caucasus along the northeast shore of the Black Sea, cease to exist as a separate land?
14. Why did the para-athletes Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli arrive late to the Paralympics in Tokyo in 2021?
15. What change was implemented in Turkey on 1 December 1928?
16. Who introduced the term "horsepower" in a scientific context?
17. The 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for what 1932 discovery by a British scientist?
18. Where do the hunter-gatherer Twa or Batwa people mostly live?
19. Which of these places is in Mali?
20. Who uses a petri dish?
21. A misogynist hates or despises what or whom?
22. Who became the head of the UK's Lawn Tennis Association in 2006?
23. Silk comes from which of these?
24. Who was vice-president to US president Ronald Reagan?
25. From which language do we get the word "dungarees" ?
26. Generally how saline are tears?
27. What is the title of the officer in charge of supply in the British army?
28. Which of these is a book that features Sherlock Holmes?
29. Who was the mother of Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XIV of France?
30. Which animal features on the Venezuelan coat of arms?
31. The Scripps National Spelling Bee is held annually in the USA in the ballroom of which hotel?
32. NFL in the USA terminated its contract with one of its players in 2014 for what?
33. "It was a dark and stormy night", the "standard" for hackneyed writing, was the opening line of a novel by whom?
34. In many countries, the Second Sunday of May is dedicated to which group?
35. Which four-film British/American horror series released its final (so far) part in 1991?
36. Generally Eskimo cuisine does not feature what?
37. Unguja and Pemba Islands are the two main islands of a semi-autonomous archipelago in which country?
38. Who became the youngest winner of the TV show "American Idol" when she won season 6?
39. One of the simplest animals, Trichoplax, made up of only six different cell types is found where?
40. The TV series Stargate SG-1 draws mainly on mythologies from Norse, Egyptian and what other?
41. Which of these is a personification of Death?
42. In which country is the city of Dundee?
43. Who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont, which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC?
44. Which of the hurricanes that devastated areas in the west Atlantic in 2017 had the strongest wind speed?
45. What does moxibustion involve?
46. Which of these people was not one of "the three musketeers" ?
47. What is true of Pope Francis, ordained as head of the Catholic Church in 2013?
48. How many legs do most crabs have?
49. The format called "Test Match" is found in several sports, which of these is not one of them?
50. "The Hunting of the Snark (an Agony in 8 Fits)", published in 1876, followed which other work by the same author?
51. What is the stage name of Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong, who was born on Christmas Day 1971?
52. In the two-player card game Piquet how are points scored?
53. "You had me at 'Hello'!" is a line from which film?
54. The Sirohi, Jamunapari (or Jamnapari), Beetal, and Barbari goats are native to which arid or semi-arid area?
55. The first Sovereign to reign over England, Scotland, and Ireland simultaneously was James who ruled in Scotland as James VI from the age of 18 months, and in England and Ireland as James I from 1603. He was the first King of England of which Royal House?
56. If someone holds their breath, chokes, or in some other way suspends external breathing, the term is what?
57. What was the main element in the UK television series "Last Tango in Halifax" ?
58. Which is the organisation founded in 1905 and known by the acronym FAI?
59. What width are the lines used to mark out a soccer, or football, pitch?
60. The Great Retreat on the eastern front of World War I in 1915, was by which country or allied forces?
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