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General Knowledge Quiz 79 (60 MCQs)

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1. Carnotite is a source of what?
2. Which French revolutionary, who was instrumental in the death of the King and the establishment of the Republic, was guillotined in 1794?
3. Which ocean or sea is on the coast of Paraguay?
4. The "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" signed into law in the US state of Arizona on 23 April 2010 to take effect on 28 July 2010, concerns what?
5. World War I took place mostly on what continent between 1914 and 1918?
6. Which one of these has no part to play in the ring at a bull fight?
7. Which German writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, later expatriated from Germany and becoming an American citizen, was the author of works including "Buddenbrooks", "Mario and the Magician" and "The Magic Mountain" ?
8. Who is credited with finding the cross used by Jesus and the remains of the Three Wise Men?
9. Freetown is the capital city of which country?
10. The first electric what were installed in 1914 in Ohio, USA?
11. What happened when Sigurd, or Siegfried, according to the Eddic poem Fáfnismál, killed the dragon Fafnir and tasted its heart's blood?
12. Why are many of the river bridges in Milwaukee, USA, built at an angle?
13. Which district of Los Angeles is the centre of the US film industry?
14. In what country is the port town of Xai-xai, near the mouth of the Limpopo River?
15. The character played by "Mr. T" is from which US TV series?
16. Which river, 210 miles long, whose principal tributaries are the Wye, Avon and Teme, empties into the Bristol channel?
17. Where was the record for the longest professional tennis match broken in 2010 when John Isner & Nicolas Mahut took 11 hours and 5 minutes over a three day period?
18. In what country were measures announced on 22 April 2010 by the Prime Minister to cut consumption of power, affecting the length of the official weekend, signs, government offices, air conditioners, street markets, commercial centres, weddings and wells?
19. After a controversial ballot in 2018 where Nicolás Maduro was re-elected President of Venezuela, over 50 governments have recognised another leader instead as interim president. Russia and China continued to support Maduro, together which other of these?
20. Where is the park-like Imperial Palace and private residence of the Emperor of Japan?
21. The city of Kolkata, previously known as Calcutta, is a port on ..... ?
22. In 1962, a 250cc World Championship for which sport was created, attracting machines built by Husqvarna, Bultaco, CZ and Greeves?
23. What distinction does the Republic of Uzbekistan share with the Principality of Liechtenstein?
24. The lines "You are the reason that I breathe, you are the reason that I still believe, you are my destiny" is from the theme song to which film?
25. Which of these words is English slang for "ear" ?
26. Hydroelectric power was first generated in Canada in 1881 using Chaudière Falls on the Ottawa River, followed by plants at Montmorency Falls and the Lachine Rapids. In 1893, the first of a flourishing Canadian and then international power generation industry used water from where?
27. Which of these was not a member of the Care Bears line of toys that was popular in the 1980s?
28. The song "The Rain In Spain" is from which musical?
29. Which of these is the slowest time?
30. The largest islands of which group, 1500 miles north east of the Philippines, are Saipan, Timan, Rota and Guam?
31. Who reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later, the shortest reign in papal history since 1605?
32. The Khalkha dialect predominates in the language of what area?
33. The US state of Iowa has a southern border with what other US state?
34. Which of these, a principality until 1536 but no longer known as such, still has an official Prince?
35. What is the Pusa sibirica, found exclusively in Lake Baikal?
36. What kind of material is MDA, developed by researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge?
37. What is the title of American Grant DeVolson Wood's best known work, a 1930 painting showing a farmer holding a pitchfork standing beside his spinster daughter, dressed in a colonial print apron?
38. Who created the "Pietà" in St Peter's Basilica, the "Doni Tondo" in the Uffizi Gallery, and the sequence of poems written to Tommaso dei Cavalieri?
39. Shakespeare's "King Lear" is set in which country?
40. Rape and looting, and massacre of civilians and surrendered soldiers was carried out in Nanking (or Nanjing), China, over six weeks from the end of what year in the 20th century?
41. Which world welterweight boxing champion was reported in April 2010 to be standing for the Philippine Congress, for the political party called "the People's Champ Movement" ?
42. How is a pūtātara used?
43. There are 259 steps from where to where?
44. Which country's dissolution in 1993 was known as the Velvet Divorce?
45. Boris Godunov ruled, first as de facto regent and then as ruler, in which country?
46. Which countries shared the two top spots for gold medals and total medals in the 2020 Summer Olympics?
47. What do a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist and developer of antibiotics and a popular English writer have most in common?
48. Longacre Square, a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets, has been known as what since April 1904?
49. Which of these led to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots for treason?
50. Virginia Woolf was portrayed in which of these films?
51. What 2008 film is an adaptation by Andrew Davies of a book by Sarah Waters, that is set in a Victorian-era women's prison?
52. Which inn that stood on the east side of Borough High Street in Southwark accommodated pilgrims headed on annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, and is mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" ?
53. What instrument is traditionally played by the leader of a Western orchestra?
54. Which of these is the title of a film made by Oliver Stone about a president of the USA?
55. From the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 until its independence in 1822, Brazil was a colony of which nation?
56. Of what or whom is Julius Caesar said to have reported "Veni, vidi, vici" ?
57. Where was the American werewolf in the title of the 1981 horror film starring David Naughton, Griffin Dunne and Jenny Agutter?
58. Why was the 1921 UK Census for England and Wales delayed for nearly two months?
59. The Five Eyes security intelligence gathering group is an alliance between USA, New Zealand, Australia, UK and what other country?
60. Which British sitcom about the Home Guard in World War II was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast between 1968 and 1977, running for 80 episodes?
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