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General Knowledge Quiz 82 (60 MCQs)

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1. How did Marie Antoinette die?
2. Which US state was the first to secede from the Union, in 1860, leading to the American Civil War?
3. What light display in Antarctica is caused by atomic bombardment from the sun on the earth's magnetic field?
4. In baseball, what is the name of the player who throws the ball to a batter of the opposing team?
5. Singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor, and director, Serge Gainsbourg wrote which song, which he recorded with his 13 year old daughter in 1984?
6. What is the first name of the British fashion designer Westwood?
7. Which of these is an album by Hard-Fi?
8. Stocking stitch is used in which of these activities?
9. What area was claimed as a colony by the German Empire in the late 19th century, became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, New Zealand and the UK after World War I, was occupied by Japanese troops during World War II, and became a trusteeship until it was declared independent in 1968?
10. Ilyushin is a make of Russian what?
11. According to Greek legend, which of the 9 muses was the muse of Comedy?
12. What is the name of the style of roasting meat, whereby it is skewered on a spit and slowly rotated over a flame?
13. Dakar is the capital city of which West African country?
14. Which of these countries became independent from Britain on 9 December 1961?
15. In Greek legend, who was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter?
16. What is an old abbreviation for Shropshire?
17. What followed the Weimar Republic in 1933?
18. What name is given to a substance which, when swallowed, injected or inhaled, will induce vomiting?
19. When and where was the television game known as "Big Brother" first broadcast?
20. What is the English name for what the French call "crème anglaise" ?
21. Who was shot dead on 9 October 1967 while trying to organise a revolution in Bolivia?
22. What did Texas adopt in 1995 as its state insect?
23. Which country left the British Commonwealth in 1949?
24. This 1993 film won Oscars, Bafta and Golden Globe Awards despite its sometimes harrowing portrayal of hardships and stress, including the butchering of its heroine's hand; which film was it?
25. The Malacca Strait lies mainly between which of these?
26. Sitting Bull was chief of what group?
27. Which of these battleships did not return to service after being attacked at Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941?
28. Joseph Conrad's semi-autobiographical 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" speaks of happenings during a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, comparing what with what?
29. Rogaining, a sport of long distance cross-country navigation or orienteering, is recognised as originating where?
30. Which of these was a rocket physicist and astronautics engineer who was involved in the development of rocket technology in Germany during World War II?
31. What country is the world's largest producer of Tobacco?
32. Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Archer have all written about their experiences in what?
33. Which of these is not a monarchy?
34. What is one of the main medical uses for salicylic acid?
35. What phrase refers to an old-fashioned person who is reluctant to change or innovate?
36. A bodhrán, tabor, pandeiro and bongo are types of what?
37. In "Kill Bill", who played the character of Black Mamba?
38. Which of these is part of a weaving loom?
39. Which section of the British forces made a famous charge against Russian forces at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War?
40. The British Royal House at the start of the First World War was known by the family name of whom?
41. How many sports are competed at the summer Paralympic Games?
42. How many US states border Lake Superior?
43. Which of these has a backbone?
44. Who directed the allied forces at the second Battle of El Alamein?
45. What is the name for a mechanical saw with a (usually vertical) blade, formed by an endless toothed band?
46. The Golden Boot Awards, awarded annually from 1983 to 2007, honoured people involved in what?
47. What river flows under the Ponte Vecchio, a Medieval bridge noted for still having shops built along it?
48. Which building, built in 1884, was the first to use structural steel in its frame and the first to be supported inside and outside by a fireproof metal frame, and is therefore considered to be the first skyscraper?
49. The central young adventurer in the Belgian cartoon series, "The Adventures of Tintin", is in what profession?
50. What does Playfair's Theory describe?
51. What embroidery technique is to gather fabric so that it can stretch, and was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable before elastic?
52. The name "mathematics" derives from an ancient Greek word meaning what?
53. Daryl Hannah starred with Tom Hanks and John Candy as what in the 1984 film "Splash" ?
54. A 1962 film was called "The Mutiny on the ..... '' what?
55. The capital of which French island in the West Indies between Dominica and Santa Lucia, St Pierre, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1902 and moved to Fort de France?
56. Who won his 6th gold medal (a record for canoeists) at the Olympic Games in 1960?
57. Which of these people is not buried in St Paul's Cathedral?
58. What word is used in the UK for chicken less than 28 days old at slaughter and usually weighing 400-450 grammes and in the USA for the Rock Cornish game hen, which is twice as old and twice as large?
59. Since the building, Taipei 101, topped 500m tall at the end of 2003, how many buildings, by 2024, have topped 600m?
60. Who wrote the novel "East of Eden" ?
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