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General Knowledge Quiz 78 (60 MCQs)

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1. The aim of a hot dog eating contest is to ..... ?
2. What character is played by Michael Douglas in two films released in 1987 and 2010?
3. What is the song "Cracklin' Rosie", a 1970 song written and performed by Neil Diamond, about?
4. Which of these is the title of a well known play by Henrik Ibsen?
5. What about an 11 stringed lute resonates with a type of mushroom?
6. Which of these is a stretch of water between the Isle of Wight and the south coast of the British mainland?
7. When was the Siege of Masada?
8. What does the O stand for in the abbreviation "VSOP" ?
9. What spirit is traditionally made from maize grain, flavoured with juniper berries?
10. Marajó is an island at the mouth of which river?
11. Jessica was the daughter of which of these characters?
12. What phrase used by the US during the Cold War to justify American intervention around the world, suggested that if any country came under the influence of communism, the surrounding countries would follow?
13. Which of these distances is the longest?
14. Which of these is a language of north-western South Africa?
15. When Fleetwood Mac reunited to tour in 2018, their lineup included Mike Campbell and who else?
16. Which legal case in 2000 famously saw decisions by the United States Supreme Court where the first two female Justices appointed to that Court were on opposite sides?
17. What word is used to describe an illegal hunt of game or fish?
18. When the Simplon Tunnel opened it was the only permanent road access between which two countries?
19. Who were Box and Cox, collaborating English songwriters and performers who, in 1947, established the music publisher Box and Cox Publications?
20. "The Leader of the Pack" was a #1 hit record world-wide between 1972 and 1976 for which group?
21. The Seekers' song "The Carnival is Over" is sung to what music?
22. What happened for the first time in the 1994 International Basketball Federation (FIBA) World Championship?
23. Who is the character whose adventures are the centre of the online digital graphic novel Wormworld Saga?
24. Like many of his contemporaries he thought of the English as the master race, he was an imperialist and successful entrepreneur and businessman who co-founded the De Beers Consolidated Mines diamond firm, and he was an enterprising politician. Who was he?
25. How high should a badminton net be at the centre?
26. In which country were constitutional reforms initiated in 1954, resulting in a new constitution when Britain granted self-government in 1964?
27. World War I was triggered as a full-blown war when the United Kingdom declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, when Germany invaded which country?
28. James I of Scotland was crowned how many years after he succeeded to the throne?
29. What system of musical notation, originating in the 16th century, shows the fingering of notes on a fretted fingerboard?
30. Which of these punctuation marks is not used to end a sentence?
31. Zola Budd became famous as what?
32. How many bones are there in the human backbone, including the five that are fused to form the sacrum and the coccyx?
33. Helen of Troy is particularly known in American and French thoroughbred horseracing circles for what?
34. What is traditionally thrown into the Trevi Fountain, Rome
35. Where is Africa's geographical centre, marked by a monument 45 km away in the town of Obo?
36. Who apparently received papal forgiveness in a front page article of an April 2010 issue of "L'Osservatore Romano", the Vatican's official newspaper?
37. What does the confluence of the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers give rise to?
38. Which of Somalia's neighbours has built a wall along part of its borders to control crossings by illegal immigrants and terrorist groups?
39. In what sport would a competitor use a plastron, bib, and body cord?
40. Which American visual effects and computer animation studio was launched in 1987?
41. In "Ink and Incapability", the second episode in the third of British TV series "Blackadder", what iconic work of English literature is destroyed?
42. Where is the stretch of water called The Solent?
43. In 1525, ex-nun Katharina von Bora married whom, thereby violating a major point of Christian canon law?
44. Which character in European folklore murdered his wives?
45. For what discovery did Sir Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley receive the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
46. When Fehaid Al-Deehani won gold in shooting, for Double trap (men), at the 2016 Summer Olympics, under what flag was he competing?
47. Which city, the second largest in Chile, was moved 3 metres to the west by an earthquake in February 2010?
48. What was the first gold record album to be certified by the Recording Industry Association of America in July 1958?
49. When the radioactive isotope carbon-14 decays, a change which fields such as archaeology and palaeontology use to detect age, what does it become?
50. The 2010 release "Plundered My Soul" was an extra track on a re-released album by which artist(s)?
51. What was the medal count for the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) in the last Olympic Games in which it took part as a country, and before the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was formed and stepped up drug-testing at the Games?
52. With which country do you associate the didgeridoo?
53. Who played "Jemima" in the then new musical "Cats" in 1981, and later starred in more of Lloyd Webber's work, with two roles written for her:in the mass "Requiem" , and "Christine Daaé" in "The Phantom of the Opera" ?
54. Who presided over the 1976 Olympic Games in Canada?
55. People of the Yazidi faith live mainly where?
56. In his influential work "De Magnete", Dr William Gilbert, Queen Elizabeth I of England's personal physician towards the end, recorded an experimental approach to scientific discovery in fields including ..... ?
57. In the Okie Noodling Tournament, first contested in 2003, what do participants compete to do?
58. According to Britain's Sea Fish Industry Authority, what is the name for a young pilchard?
59. What advance in the design of the bicycle was introduced in 1885?
60. Which US president started and pursued the hardline rivalry after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, usually called the Cold War?
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