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General Knowledge Quiz 88 (60 MCQs)

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1. What sport is featured in the play "Foreskin's Lament" by Greg McGee?
2. The Alderney, Blaarkop, East Anatolian Red, Guernsey, Icelandic and Swedish Friesian are all types of what?
3. What is the name of a free improvisatory passage inserted near the end of a composition to create a feeling of suspense before the final cadence?
4. Where is a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings consisting primarily of realistic images of large animals?
5. What rock band played together for the first time in over 20 years at the London Live Eight Concert in 2005?
6. What does the Alvarado Score measure?
7. Which of these is a small member of the lute family, in use in Europe during the Renaissance?
8. Countries which in the 19th century permanently abolished the death penalty were the Roman Republic (1849), Venezuela (1854), San Marino (1865), and which other?
9. Which Walt Disney animated feature film bombed when it was first released in 1940, only eventually reaching profit in 1945?
10. When did Canada become a fully sovereign country?
11. What name is given to the cabin that is suspended from a balloon?
12. Where is The Rialto bridge?
13. What does the "E" stand for in "LED" ?
14. What is an ingredient in Bún măng vịt, a famous noodle dish in Vietnam?
15. Ronan Keating was a member of which band?
16. Which fictional character in a popular book published in 1876 was born in St Petersburg?
17. Which of these areas is on the southern tip of Portugal?
18. In cuisine what is barding?
19. In which of these areas would you be most likely to find a traditional dwelling called a rondavel?
20. What is a geminid?
21. Where would a Mercator Projection be employed?
22. The Russo Japanese War of 1904-1905 ended when the Russian Fleet under Rozhdestvensky was defeated at the Battle of Tsushima by a fleet led by whom?
23. When the outermost layer of the eye and the inner surface of the eyelids are inflamed, the eyes are said to be what?
24. The film actor Marion Michael Morrison is better known by what name?
25. What legal name is given to a document that is written by the person who signs it?
26. Which Grand Prix, that had taken place for 31 years at the same circuit, was dropped from the 2009 Formula One Championship?
27. The first Olympic Games to be held in South America were held where?
28. What bid, in some card games, means that to win the player must lose every trick?
29. What is the word for an annual calendar that contains statistics and information of specialist interest?
30. Widely known for his work on British television, for co-founding the Materials Library, and for talks on aesthetics in the arts and sciences, Mark Miodownik has a doctorate in what?
31. British clog dancing can be seen as a forerunner of what?
32. In the words of the 1941 song popularised by Glenn Miller and his band, about when does the Chattanooga Choo Choo leave Pennsylvania Station?
33. What Court was established in 1959 by the election of its members by the European Council?
34. What is the nationality of 2007 IndyCar Series champion George Dario Marino Franchitti?
35. Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the end of World War I?
36. Where does the Guinness Book of World Records recognise the largest wave ever surfed, 78 feet (23.8 m), as having been ridden?
37. What is the name given to a cataclysmic nuclear explosion caused by the accretion of hydrogen onto the surface of a white dwarf star?
38. Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is mainly set in what city?
39. Who broke the world record for the pole vault at the Beijing Olympics?
40. What nationality was the merchant brigantine "Mary Celeste" when she was found deserted and floating off the Azores in 1872?
41. Which of these historical figures is most associated with the year 1649?
42. If you flew due west from Libreville, capital of the Gabon, where would you first make landfall?
43. Lake Tana lies at the head of which major river?
44. In a 1996 film John Travolta played what character?
45. Which of these is a basic blend of ground spices common in Indian and other South Asian cuisines?
46. What function do palps, or pedipalps, serve for spiders?
47. If a boat or yacht is luffed what does it do?
48. For the Republic of South Africa, the city of Johannesburg is what?
49. Corcovado mountain overlooks which city?
50. What animals travel in groups led by the "Old Man" or "Boomer" ?
51. What was Dr Margaret Mead's field of study, pursued particularly in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia?
52. A five block area of which city was permanently closed to traffic in May 2009 in an attempt to make the city "more liveable" ?
53. Raymond Chandler created which of these fictional detectives?
54. What is the present name of a large group of islands in the heart of the western area of the Coral Triangle, known and highly prized by Arab traders, and by Europeans from at least the 16th century?
55. Due to a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Britain at the time of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games and the strict quarantine laws of Australia, where were the equestrian events held?
56. What type of apple is on the Apple Records logo?
57. Mikaya and Kilawna and their friend Edith who are travelling to the west coast, British Columbia, are characters in which play?
58. What is the highest bid in a game of contract bridge?
59. What was the name of the representative body in pre-revolutionary Russia that was revived in 1905?
60. What is the adjective usually attached to someone called a codger?
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