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General Knowledge Quiz 85 (60 MCQs)

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1. Where in the eye do cataracts occur?
2. Who was Ron Hextall playing for when, on 8 December 1987, in a game against the Boston Bruins, he became the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal by actually shooting the puck into an open net?
3. What was the last act of the Live 8 performance in Philadelphia on 2 July 2005?
4. Where did the Chola dynasty rule, either in sole control or with allies, for more than 1, 500 years?
5. What is the Perth Agreement made in 2011?
6. Zydeco is a type of music from which country?
7. Which of these couples are said to be buried at Glastonbury in Somerset, England?
8. After the Parthenon had stood in Athens for over 2, 000 years it was destroyed in 1687 by which two countries?
9. Gandalf is a character in books by which author?
10. According to Christian tradition, which angel will blow his trumpet on judgement day?
11. The highest measured waterfall in North America, among the highest 7 in the world, is in California and is known as what?
12. Who was the magistrate in Athens who codified its laws around 600 BC?
13. What is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2, 430 metres (7, 970 ft) above sea level, on a ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru?
14. With what revolutionary movement was the Chinese physician, writer, philosopher and calligrapher Sun Yat-sen associated at the time of his death in 1925?
15. Which of these was born first?
16. The Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, is also partly in which of these states?
17. Who voices the two characters in "Beavis and Butthead" in the series 1993-97, 2011?
18. In what language was the chivalric romance "Primaleon of Greece" (published 1516) written?
19. Who was the Greek god of medicine who brought dead people back to life, angering Zeus who killed him with a thunderbolt?
20. Wealthy Quaker Richard Tapper Cadbury, a linen and silk draper, had a son John who founded a business in what?
21. What is the only known example of the plant species Lapageria?
22. What can the discriminant equation be used for in relation to a quadratic or cubic equation?
23. What is a young swan called?
24. When are the events surrounding the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin supposed to have taken place?
25. Which author was born Jozef Korzeioloski in Ukrainian Poland in 1857, joined the French merchant marine, served on French and British ships, and became a naturalised British subject in 1886?
26. Who played Mrs Robinson in the 1967 film "The Graduate" ?
27. What is the generic name for all of the greater festivals of the Christian Church?
28. Chitose, Kisarazu, Ashiya and Komatsu are popular Japanese what?
29. A non-SI unit of radioactivity is named after ..... ?
30. Publicity for which 1998 film reads: "Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged, but to the wrong people." ?
31. What singing game show that premiered on Fox in July 2007 and was confirmed as cancelled in August 2009 where contestants competed to win one million dollars by correctly recalling song lyrics from a variety of genres was hosted by Wayne Brady?
32. Which of these is a type of moth?
33. In what sport is the item which is played by the contestants usually 1 inch (25 mm) thick, 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and in the adult size weighs 3 lb (1.3-1.5 kg)?
34. What problem did Leonardo Bonacci, nicknamed Fibonacci, quote as a demonstration in his 1202 book explaining the mathematical sequence also known as the Golden Ratio?
35. Which nation was the first to put a man-made object on the moon?
36. Who discovered the moons of Saturn called Mimas and Enceladus between 1781 and 1789?
37. What modern-day country was ruled between 1902 and 1964 by Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud and his son, Emir Saud?
38. A proposal put forward in the 1970s that Earth and its biological systems are self-regulating is known as what?
39. Canadian-born actress and producer Gladys Smith co-founded which influential entertainment studio?
40. Which of these is a deciduous tree with small cones and needle like leaves that is native to the Swiss Alps?
41. The Yom Kippur War in 1973 was between Israel and which other forces?
42. Which is a character in the Oberammergau Passion Play?
43. Carrageen, used in cosmetics and foods is a type of what?
44. The engines used in Formula One between 1960 and 1990 by Motor Racing Developments Ltd (known as Brabham) were Coventry-Climax, Cosworth DFV, Alfa Romeo, BMW, Yamaha, Judd and which other?
45. What do sarcococca, hamamelis, and mahonia have in common?
46. Which of these is a book that was the subject of a British obscenity trial in 1960?
47. Upon whom did Pope Leo X confer the title "Defender of the Faith" in 1521?
48. Where are the sites of the elaborately planned and sophisticated 4th and 3rd millennia BCE urban settlements of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro?
49. A series of landforms clustered across 97, 125 hectares of southern China, with weathered shapes including tower, pinnacle, cone, natural bridges, sinkholes, gorges and cave systems, is known as what?
50. She started in "Hair", created the roles of Eva Peron in "Evita" and Grizabella in "Cats", and is commonly called the First Lady of British Musical Theatre. Who is she?
51. Who is told, in a Shakespearean play, that he will "never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him" ?
52. Which of these is the name for a small two-wheeled carriage, covered with a hood and pulled by one or two men, of Indian origin?
53. What was TIROS-1?
54. Which of these features is near the East Coast of Sicily?
55. The Nasrids, the last Muslim dynasty in Spain, who were the last survivors of the tussle between Muslim and Christian for Spain were responsible for what still surviving landmark in Spain?
56. Which singer made the news in September 2009 when Muslim groups protested that her first concert in Malaysia should be cancelled for a second time?
57. Which of these was an English graphic designer who made his mark with graphic images for the Beatles and Apple Corps, and whose ground-breaking work was in the 1960s and 1970s?
58. What is the name of the line that darts players stand behind to throw?
59. What is a common chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent unprovoked seizures, which are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain?
60. Which British singer had hits with "Maggie Mae", "Tonight's The Night" and "Do You Think I'm Sexy", and has then turned to singing older standards?
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