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General Knowledge Quiz 81 (60 MCQs)

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1. Anabolism, as in "anabolic steroids", refers to what?
2. What was the name of the ship used by Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the east coast of the American colonies from 1717 to 1718?
3. Which two teams set a record for the total number of points (96) scored in an NFL playoff match when they met in January 2010?
4. What are some of the most important physics principles involved in enabling ice skaters to perform on the ice?
5. At the peak of its power, it was often said that "the sun never sets on" which empire?
6. Which national anthem appears in The Beatles song "All You Need Is Love" ?
7. What is the transparent front part of the eye which, while contributing most of the eye's focusing power, has a fixed focus?
8. Which 19th century French physicist erected a pendulum 200 feet high in the Pantheon in Paris to demonstrate the earth's rotation?
9. The Sundance Film Festival, that began in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival, is for what type of films?
10. Why did the 'Suwałki gap' become important to Russia after 1991?
11. What name is given to a person or animal with a form of hypopigmentary congenital disorder, characterized by a lack of melanin pigment in the eyes, skin and hair?
12. Who starred in the film "Coquette" (released in 1929)?
13. What is a femicide?
14. What is shodō or shūji?
15. Where is myelin found?
16. "Silverside" is a cut of what?
17. What nationality was the first golfer to win the United States Open Championship, known as the U.S. Open?
18. The last edition of which British music chart television programme was broadcast on 30 July 2006 after running for 41 1/2 years?
19. What is the next in the series:Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Gambia, Botswana, Lesotho, Mauritius
20. From 2008 Ferrari provided cars (a modification of the F1 Ferrari F2004 chassis) with a V8 engine for which 'single make' motor racing series?
21. Which film is the story of Willie Stark (played by Broderick Crawford) who starts with well meaning ambition to enter politics, is corrupted by power on his way to becoming a US state governor, and is assassinated?
22. On the Jewish calendar, what is Rosh Hashanah?
23. Block, Fan, Horsetail, Plunge, Punchbowl and Segmented are types of what?
24. The Hudson River forms the boundary between the states of New York and what other?
25. In what were the Umayyad and Abbāsid dynasties early leaders?
26. Which group of 6 women in ancient Rome each had a term of office of 30 years (10 to be trained, 10 to work, including keeping a flame alive, and 10 to educate others)?
27. Which river flows through the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA?
28. Whose song inspired the classic Australian line dance known as the Nutbush?
29. When did cheerleading become eligible to be included in Olympic Games?
30. Who is quoted as writing "Hell is other people" ?
31. Who wrote the book "Studies in Hysteria" and "Interpretation of Dreams" ?
32. The Arctic Council, established in 1996, consists of 8 member states, which are Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, the United States of America and which other?
33. Two tectonic plates and small corners of two others lie under the African continent. These are the African Plate, part of the Eurasian and the Arabian Plates and which other?
34. A Canadian-American adventure and military scifi TV series which first screened in 1997 was one of the longest lasting. What was it called?
35. Where is the city of Medellin?
36. The Rio Grande forms the border of Texas with what other area?
37. Which of these is NOT a type of weaving?
38. What sport does IFOCE, set up in 1997, govern?
39. Which teams contested baseball's American League Championship series in 2009?
40. In 1954 Obninsk, USSR, was the place for what?
41. "Hamlet" is largely set where?
42. Which is most likely to be seen wild in Laos?
43. What was King George VI's first name?
44. Where is the Topkapi Palace?
45. What is the capital of Algeria?
46. What was remarkable about Kathrine Switzer's competing as runner no.261 in the 1967 Boston Marathon?
47. What is the name of a spectacular group of six canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the southwestern part of Chihuahua, northwestern Mexico, a name derived from the colour of the walls?
48. What Royal residence in London, originally part of St James's Palace, was used as the London residence of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh from 1949 to 1952?
49. Whose germ theory led to his devising a means to heat-treat milk to reduce disease?
50. The Billabong Pro Teahupoo, Tahiti, founded in 1999, is a professional competition in what?
51. Australopithecus sediba, an early hominid, whose only discovered remains date to 1.78 to 1.95 million years ago, is known from two partial skeletons discovered where?
52. How was Joan of Arc killed in 1431 after she was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English and tried by an ecclesiastical court?
53. Which son of an actor, also an actor, was awarded the US Navy's Legion of Merit with bronze V (for valour), the Italian War Cross for Military Valour, the French Légion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre with Palm, the British Distinguished Service Cross?
54. How many letters are there in the Hebrew alphabet?
55. What does FRCP after someone's name mean?
56. The Gulf of Carpentaria, north Australia, resembles a square shovel with an angled blade. Which is closest to the same?
57. What was the name of the group of friends that Ken Kesey, the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", took on a trip from California to New York in a school bus nicknamed "Furthur" ?
58. "Wicked" by Stephen Schwartz & Winnie Holzman, which is loosely based on a novel by Gregory Maguire, is about who?
59. What name was given to the eldest sons of the Kings of France from the 14th century?
60. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are mentioned in what 1982 hit song?
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