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General Knowledge Quiz 87 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of these was an early name for Jakarta?
2. Which of the following is one of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus on his first trip to America?
3. Where is the Sidoarjo mud flow, or Lusi, the mud volcano which started erupting in 2006?
4. Which area, which translates as "the land of five rivers", is on the border between India and Pakistan?
5. Which of these has a leathery covering?
6. In what period is the US television series "Mad Men" (2007-15) set?
7. Which of these was a musical film starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr?
8. In November 1938, while attempting to obtain a respiratory and circulatory stimulant (an analeptic), Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann became what?
9. Kabaddi is the national sport of which country?
10. Who starred in "Beaches", "Down and Out in Beverly Hills", "Outrageous Fortune" and "The First Wives Club" ?
11. Which of these is NOT a Norwegian explorer or adventurer known for their 20th century expeditions?
12. Who became famous for editing and publishing texts of classic writing "purged of all coarse and indecent expressions" ?
13. The "galop" from Offenbach's "Orphée aux Enfers" is generally associated with what?
14. What scale, developed by Terence Meaden as an extension of the Beaufort scale, measures tornado intensity between T0 and T11?
15. The name of which board game means "I play" in Latin?
16. Flower chafers, June beetles, dung beetles and rhinoceros beetles are species of what?
17. How many terms does a binomial expression have?
18. What colour are salmon eggs?
19. In Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", what was the name of Captain Ahab's ship?
20. What was the Olympics venue announced by Jacques Rogge as his last before he resigned as President of the International Olympics Committee (IOC)?
21. Manually created bespoke sound effects in theatre or film are called what?
22. Spain has been through the upheaval of civil war more than once; what were the dates of the war in the 20th century?
23. Where in the USA is Lake Mead?
24. Which song, in the best known translation, contains the words "Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear, And he shows them pearly white, Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear, And he keeps it out of sight" ?
25. Archimedes is the first person recorded to have designed and built an elevator, in about 236 BC. Who is credited with introducing the safety elevator, which did not fall if the cable broke?
26. What was the Roman name for Wales?
27. Among its functions to promote and safeguard astronomy (e.g. research, communication, education and development) through international cooperation, the International Astronomical Union does what in relation to features in the solar system?
28. In 2015, with names formally confirmed in 2016, new laboratory-synthesised elements were added to the periodic table of elements. How many were there?
29. Which of these is closest to the South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands?
30. What causes the sting caused by a nettle or an ant?
31. In English mythology, who were Galligantus and Bunderbore?
32. Iguaçu, Angel and Guaíra are all names for what?
33. Which of these was the companion of the Lone Ranger?
34. The World Games, first held in 1981 to provide a world forum for sports not contested in the Olympic Games, includes which sport-once an Olympic sport but dropped after 1920?
35. What ballet company, formed in 1926 in Notting Hill Gate by a Polish woman, tours Britain annually accompanied by its own orchestra?
36. Which description fits the Touareg, or Tuareg, people in northern Africa best?
37. Million square miles of land in North America were the subject of what agreement in 1803?
38. Fado is a type of music from which country?
39. Alice B. Woodward (1862-1951) who was born in Chelsea, London, produced work as what from 1896 to 1930?
40. Martha Jane Canary-Burke, frontierswoman, prostitute, and professional scout, best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok, was better known as which of these?
41. In their original Greek version, what architectural style of fluted column stood directly on the flat pavement (the stylobate) of a temple without a base, topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam (entablature) that they carried?
42. Which screen villain likes liver, fava beans and chianti?
43. Which golf course hosted golf's first Open Championship, known now also as the British Open?
44. After what or who is the continent to the north of Africa named?
45. Who was the lead guitarist of the band "Guns N' Roses" between 1985 and 1996?
46. Which film, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, John Carradine and Claire Trevor, was indirectly based on Guy de Maupassant's story "Boule de Suif" ?
47. Buenos Aires is the capital city of which country?
48. The Rowing World Cup, which is held at 3 or 4 venues over a year, has only once been staged outside Europe. Where was it?
49. The samba originated in which country?
50. Which of these is the name of the TV series that spawned a film made in 2008?
51. Which of these is a starchy, tuberous crop?
52. What was the name of the first of the space shuttles that was used only for testing purposes?
53. The subphylum Chelicerata is one of the major subdivisions of the phylum Arthropoda; it contains sea spiders and arachnids (including scorpions, spiders, and potentially horseshoe crabs). Which was the first chelicerate to have its genome fully sequenced?
54. Where is the Suakin Trough?
55. Which country has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund?
56. Who wrote the plays "Waiting For Godot", "Endgame", "Play", "Happy Days" and "Krapp's Last Tape" ?
57. Which would South African Christiaan Barnard usually pick up in the course of the work for which he was best known in the second half of the 20th century?
58. Which popular Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist, whose first album "Paddy on the Road" was recorded with Dominic Behan (brother of Brendan) in 1969, was named "Ireland's greatest living musician" in RTÉ's People of the Year Awards in 2007?
59. Whose lifetime total of 714 home runs was a record in Major League Baseball for 39 years, until 1974?
60. The Treaty of Versailles signed in 1871 marked another step in what for the signatories?
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