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General Knowledge Quiz 86 (60 MCQs)

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1. What usually completes the phrase "to spoil the ship for a ha'porth of ..... "?
2. Which fictional character uses a sonic screwdriver?
3. After an earlier experiment by AOL's QuantumLink Serial what was the episodic online story (1995-7) which first included paid advertising banners and product placement?
4. What interested the movement formed in 1809 called the Nazarenes?
5. What distinguishes the geological feature known as a bornhardt?
6. Who were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1993?
7. Canis Major is also known as what?
8. What device, with a scale of 60 degrees was used in marine navigation for measuring the altitude of a celestial object above the horizon?
9. It was written in 1911 and became one of the most popular songs of that year. Which was it?
10. In mediaeval falconry, which social level was most commonly associated with a goshawk?
11. Big Ben is in which London building?
12. Where was Meredith Hunter killed by a group of Hell's Angels on 6 December 1969 during a performance by the Rolling Stones?
13. Where would a huntaway and a header be likely to compete?
14. What was QR-code labelling first developed for?
15. Where does a shark carry denticles?
16. Which of these is a legendary creature, supposedly with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle?
17. What sportsman would perform a triple salchow?
18. What name is given to English comedies written from 1660 to 1700 which signalled the rebirth of English drama after public stage performances had been banned for 18 years?
19. What is the name for the shape of a proscenium in a theatre?
20. Which US river ends up at the Chesapeake Bay?
21. In 1998, who was the oldest woman to have a #1 hit single in the UK?
22. In December 2010, who apologised to his former groupies (over 1, 000 over 3 years) for taking advantage of his privileged position as an object of adoration?
23. The many times operated on, and many times recovered, golfer Tiger Woods had another occasion for major surgery in February 2021 when he did what?
24. David Gest, a concert promoter, was the fourth husband of whom from March 2002 until their divorce in April 2007?
25. Who married Taylor Hackford (the director of "White Nights", in which she appeared), her partner since 1986, on 31 December 1997?
26. What was the first name of the political cartoonist known as Hogarth?
27. What is the name of a small lift used to convey food, china etc in a restaurant?
28. Felipe Calderón became President of which country on 1 December 2006?
29. The line "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse" is from which play?
30. In the James Bond film "The World Is Not Enough" who played Bond girl Elektra King?
31. The game of pinochle uses what?
32. The 2023 Esports World Championship included eFootball, Dota 2, Tekken 7, CS:GO, PUBG Mobile and which other?
33. Which direction does the biggest river in South America flow?
34. What is a specialized linear-beam vacuum tube used as amplifiers at microwave and radio frequencies to produce both low-power reference signals for superheterodyne radar receivers and to produce high-power carrier waves for communications and the driving force for modern particle accelerators?
35. The MacRobertson Shield international competition, hosted in New Zealand in 2013-14, in the US in 2017 and in Australia in 2022, was in what sport?
36. Which of these is a Welsh retired soccer star who made a career in film with his debut in "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" ?
37. What is one of the terms for a type of mediaeval base coin made elsewhere but circulating in England, and made illegal there in 1299 CE?
38. Which one of these scripts was not written or co-written by Harold Pinter?
39. What are the Yeoman Warders, who have guarded the Tower of London since 1485, commonly called?
40. What is the name of the surface used to play a game of curling?
41. To which of these places would you go to buy wine in Spain?
42. Playwright Athol Fugard, multi-award-winning honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is best-known for what theme in his works?
43. Which of these is not a drupe?
44. It is believed that which building stands on the site of temples built successively by Micah, Zerubbabel and Herod in Jerusalem?
45. What bird is nicknamed "man of war" because it steals food from other birds in the air?
46. A Duesenberg was a make of what?
47. In 1932 the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd unified with the regions of Al-Hasa and Qatif to form which country?
48. What does a draper traditionally sell?
49. Ludwig Leichhardt was a Prussian naturalist and explorer of what area between 1842 and 1848?
50. Who, in 1936, was the last British man to win the singles event at Wimbledon until Andy Murray from Scotland won in 2013?
51. What literary character was portrayed by Cliff Richard in a 1990s stage musical?
52. In September 1905 the government of New South Wales, Australia, voted to buy 1, 000 miles of netting in attempt to control what?
53. After allegations of collusion among judges at the 2002 Olympic Games pairs figure skating, how was the disagreement resolved regarding the placings of Canadian pair David Pelletier / Jamie Salé and Russian pair Yelena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze?
54. In 1958 the first World Championship in biathlon was held in which country?
55. A 1966 British children's TV series featuring stop-motion puppets, and each episode began with a music box playing, accompanied by "Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside. Can you guess what is in it today?" Which of these was it?
56. Which English road in Anglo-Saxon times went from Axminster via Bath, Cirencester, Leicester and Newark to Lincoln?
57. Jack Kerouac is famous for what activity?
58. Which of these is the word for an irrational fear of bees?
59. With a time of 3:49.4, breaking the existing world record by over 1.5 seconds, who was the first to run the mile in under 3:50 minutes?
60. What is a "marksman" good at?
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