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General Knowledge Quiz 89 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of these words best describes Cornwall, England?
2. What fictional character lives in a pineapple under the sea?
3. What is the basic ingredient of frumenty?
4. The upper pair of a slug's tentacles is used to detect light or movement; what is the lower pair used for?
5. Which of these countries does not have a capital city where the name (in its English form) starts and ends with the same letter?
6. By what name was the Castle of St Antoine that was built in Paris in 1369 as a fortress better known?
7. What does "twixt" mean?
8. Who was the British Leader of the Opposition during the Abdication Crisis?
9. In July 1946 the Philippines claimed its independence from what country?
10. What sort of pie is a critical plot element in Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan" ?
11. The first band-specific game in the "Rock Band" series of music video games, where players simulate playing music using controllers shaped like musical instruments was "The Beatles:Rock Band" . Who was the subject of the next one to be released?
12. In "Coronation Street", what did Tracey Barlow name her daughter, born in 2004?
13. What does the term "barleycorn" not refer to?
14. Which of these is a game thought to have been commercialised in 1760 by John Spilsbury, a London mapmaker and engraver?
15. Where did the old woman who "had so many children she didn't know what to do" live?
16. What type of aircraft powerplant uses a gas turbine to drive a propeller?
17. With which sport is Nadia Comăneci associated?
18. A widespread National Football League controversy about a game in January 2015 in the USA was called, colloquially, what?
19. What is the word for a moving camera platform?
20. What very popular sport, introduced to England by the Romans, was banned temporarily under Cromwell and finally outlawed in 1849?
21. What play ends "So give me your hands if we be friends and Robin shall restore amends" ?
22. Under what name did Helen Porter Mitchell perform opera?
23. Which English King died of dysentery while campaigning in France?
24. Which scientist allegedly used mirrors to focus the sun's rays to burn Roman ships during the Siege of Syracuse around 214-212 BC?
25. When he took office on 9 May 2009, the President of which country was pictured with three women who were said to be his wives:Sizakele Khumalo, Nompumelelo and Thobeka Mabhija?
26. The Canary Islands in the Atlantic are named after what?
27. Which was a musical instrument used by NZ group From Scratch in records they released 1985-7?
28. Who was physician to James I and Charles I, and whose chief discovery was to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart, which he published in 1628?
29. Where did the Greek Titan Helios, personification of the sun, go home to sleep at night, where he lived with his sister, Eos the Titan goddess of the dawn?
30. What was believed to be a hemisphere above the ground, carrying the fixed stars and surrounding the seven spheres of the planets, through which the Sun and Moon moved in and out through a series of openings?
31. Who was elected Governor of Texas in 1994?
32. Which of these is a very good hand in the game of poker?
33. What is the maximum number of people that make up the supreme council of the Roman Catholic Church, the College of Cardinals?
34. Who were the two main characters in "Bringing Up Father", a comic strip created by George McManus that ran from January 1913 to May 2000 about an Irishman who comes into wealth in the USA but wants to live much as he used to?
35. On what play by George Bernard Shaw is the musical "My Fair Lady" based?
36. Which popular song from 1972 told the story of the aftermath of an incident at a concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention when someone fired a flare gun?
37. In which discipline is the word "syzygy" least likely to be used?
38. What is the average of 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 25?
39. What can be a useful tool to detect a symptom of obstructive sleep apnoea?
40. Clusterball is a game involving aircraft, balls, magnetic ramps and a collection point, and is played on what?
41. How many minutes long is a round in an official boxing match?
42. What word or phrase originates from the practice on the classical stage of introducing a god from above to effect a speedy denouement?
43. What is the distinguishing characteristic of the Anabantoidei species of fish, known as gourames, one of which is the Siamese fighting fish?
44. According to a story originating in the 13th century, and disputed by the Catholic Church and many academics, who was the first (and only) female Pope?
45. Which of these books was not written by one of the Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily or Anne)?
46. Which organisation founded by Lord Baden Powell and his sister Agnes was incorporated by Charter in 1915?
47. In which country was Saddam Hussein President 1979-2003, being deposed and then hanged in 2006?
48. Which extra element did Einstein include in his understanding of general relativity, which he had not previously included in the theory he published in 1905 of special relativity?
49. In Greek mythology, who was tied to a fiery wheel for eternity as a punishment?
50. What alloy is created from copper and tin?
51. What would you be expected to do with aspic?
52. In what field are excipients used?
53. If you went to Bizet's "Carmen", what would you expect to see?
54. Which of these is a small variety of a marrow?
55. Chile's coat of arms contains the country's two national animals, the Andean condor and which other?
56. What is the median of 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 25?
57. Which British television series, running from 1969 to 1982, was described by the writers of Monty Python's Flying Circus which went to air very soon after as making them "very depressed because we thought it was what we wanted to do" ?
58. What, invented by William Harbutt of Bath, England in 1897, is composed of calcium salts (principally calcium carbonate), petroleum jelly, and long-chain aliphatic acids (principally stearic acid)?
59. The 1996 Port Arthur massacre, carried out by a single gunman, took place where?
60. What is Raman spectroscopy used to do?
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