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General Knowledge Quiz 92 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer invented the notation which uses superscripts to show powers or exponents (e.g. the 2 used in x² to indicate squaring)?
2. What relationship is Marla to Donald Trump?
3. When was the World Darts Council (later the Professional Darts Corporation) formed?
4. Tony and Maureen Wheeler began publishing what travel publications in the early 1970s?
5. At which racecourse would you find Beecher's Brook and Canal Turn?
6. What tough, tightly woven fabric used to make suits, overcoats, trousers and other garments, traditionally made from worsted wool fibre, was patented by Thomas Burberry in 1888?
7. In West Africa what is a griot?
8. A clown fish creates a home for itself inside what?
9. Which group from New York City released an eponymous album in 1973 with the personnel of David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain, Arthur "Killer" Kane, Jerry Nolan and Johnny Thunders?
10. Someone facing up to a difficult situation is said to take what animal "by the horns" ?
11. What is the astronomical body 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, discovered in 1788?
12. The 2018 US police procedural TV series "Instinct" has what aspect unusual for a US TV series of this kind?
13. Who was the first President of Czechoslovakia?
14. Which 2020 UK TV mini-series was adapted from a 1993 novel by Vikram Seth?
15. The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour was a gift in 1886 to the USA by whom?
16. What is the name of the Greek airline flag-carrier?
17. In which state of Australia would you find the area known as the Wheatbelt?
18. A computer game first released in 1993 and drawing inspiration from Rube Goldberg devices, or Heath Robinson or Storm P thinking, is what?
19. Where is the small volcanic island of Surtsey?
20. If you travelled downstream from the Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, which country would you be in when you reached the ocean?
21. Cobol, Basic and Fortran are all types of what?
22. According to the nursery rhyme, who was Humpty Dumpty?
23. When did the first entry for acronyms appear in the Oxford English Dictionary?
24. A terrorist attack was launched on New York that resulted in the destruction of the Twin Towers on which day in 2001?
25. The Battle of Ghuznee in 1839 took place between the armies of Great Britain and which other country?
26. What nickname was given to Ana Cumpănaş, also known as Anna Sage, who betrayed John Dillinger to the police when he attended the Biograph Theater in Chicago?
27. What links two US TV films, one about a teen with muscular dystrophy in a state nursing home, and one about a Canadian super-gun designer involved with Project Babylon, with a US TV series adapted from a UK work by Michael Dobbs?
28. The Zocchihedron die, particularly designed to handle percentage rolls e.g. in role-playing games, has how many faces?
29. Who invented a system of cartography whereby lines of latitude and longitude are drawn at right angles?
30. What is the closest planet to the sun?
31. When the Cocos Plate collided with another tectonic plate, forcing up seabed and volcanic mountains, what two land masses were eventually linked 4 million years ago?
32. In golf, what is the term for "one stroke over par" ?
33. Which of these mountains is in Australia?
34. In the Alfred Hitchcock film "Psycho", where did the murder take place?
35. Where are the most famous examples of "cliff-dwellings", habitats of primitive peoples constructed of lime and stone in the hollow surface of cliffs?
36. Which country relinquished Puerto Rico and Cuba to the USA in 1898?
37. In 2012, 16 members of a dissident Amish group in Ohio were convicted of what?
38. What was the name of Paddington Bear's aunt, who sent him from Peru to London?
39. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is known as what?
40. The 6 Brandenburg concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach are widely regarded as among the finest musical compositions of which era?
41. What phrase means "let the buyer beware" ?
42. Where is it sometimes possible to walk from Japan to Russia?
43. The Clipper ship "Dunedin" caused excitement when it arrived in London after a 98 day voyage in 1882. Where had it come from?
44. When Lieutenant, later Captain, James Cook sailed for the Pacific Ocean in 1768 what had the voyage been commissioned to achieve?
45. Who is the player who has come closest to meeting the modern definition of golf's Grand Slam by holding all four modern major championships simultaneously?
46. How does an épée differ from the sabre used in fencing competitions?
47. Trop v. Dulles (1958) was a landmark case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the government to do what to US citizens as punishment?
48. Where is Mauritania?
49. Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940) is seen as largely responsible for promoting what for use in schools?
50. What fictional island off the coast of Sumatra that first appeared in the 1933 film "King Kong" is the home of King Kong and other creatures?
51. "Choo choo" is a child's name for what?
52. In "The Sound of Music", which of these items did not feature in Maria's list of "Favourite Things" ?
53. According to legend, when did the seer and priest Laocoön live?
54. What 2003 mystery-detective novel by Dan Brown has been denounced as an attack on the Catholic Church and criticised for historical and scientific inaccuracy?
55. Who did Antonio Banderas marry on 14 May 1996?
56. What sign of the zodiac is represented by an archer?
57. An attack near the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, was the work of two young brothers who detonated two what?
58. In the first episodes of the game which featured Commander Keen, released in 1990, what or who were the hero's opponent?
59. Where is the giant herbivorous insect Deinacrida heteracantha a native?
60. The half-length portrait of Lisa di Anton Maria di Noldo Gherardini is better known by what name?
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