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General Knowledge Quiz 93 (60 MCQs)

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1. What card game uses a scoreboard with holes and pegs?
2. Which author and playwright wrote "An Inspector Calls", "When We Are Married" and "Dangerous Corner" ?
3. Which of these elements is the basis for calamine lotion?
4. The food known as "whitebait" consists of small what?
5. French intelligence service (DGSE) agents Captain Dominique Prieur and Commander Alain Mafart were convicted of the manslaughter of photographer Fernando Pereira and sinking a ship, Greenpeace's the "Rainbow Warrior", in 1985, in which harbour?
6. The orangutan is found on Sumatra and which other island?
7. Which of these countries is closest to Austria?
8. By what name does history better know 11th-century Castilian military leader Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar?
9. Kerkyra is what the locals call what island?
10. After he had directed "Australia", Baz Luhrmann's next project was a film based on which book by F Scott Fitzgerald?
11. For administrative purposes, Germany consists of sixteen areas which they call ..... what?
12. In 1961 in Paris, the French police attacked a peaceful but illegal demonstration of around 30, 000 people, killing between 40 and 200, who were protesting about what?
13. Who played the lead roles of Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash in "Tango & Cash", a 1989 American action/comedy film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and Albert Magnoli?
14. What is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Mosuo, or Na, culture, in Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in China close to the border with Tibet?
15. Which of these is commonly removed by a dentist?
16. Which film tied with "All About Eve" (released in 1950) for the most Oscar nominations (14), and won 11 including Best Picture and Best Director, thereby tying with "Ben-Hur" (1959) for the most Oscars won by a single film?
17. To what political party did George Washington, the first president of the USA elected under the Electoral College system, belong?
18. Who is represented as bringing light to Swedish homes on December 13th?
19. When was the deconstruction game called Jenga launched?
20. How much time does light from the sun take to reach Earth?
21. In what is snake and or bee venom discussed as a treatment?
22. Which company made the Zero fighter that Japan used in World War II?
23. Jason Lee Scott, Zack Taylor, Billy Cranston, Trini Kwan and Kimberly Hart were the original members of which group?
24. What is the name for an angle greater than 180 degrees and less than 360 degrees?
25. How many gifts are there in the "Twelve Days of Christmas" ?
26. Parsley is the main ingredient of which of these sauces?
27. Which Canadian, born Eilleen Regina Edwards, made the album "Come on Over", the best-selling album of all time by a female musician and the best-selling album in the history of country music?
28. In 1996, at Atlanta, Karch Kiraly was the first US player of which sport to win three Olympic gold medals?
29. What note is in the centre of a standard piano keyboard?
30. Isabella Kauakea Yau Yung Aiona Abbott, from Hana on Maui, became the first native Hawaiian woman to do what?
31. On Christmas Day 1914 during World War I, there was an unofficial truce between British and German troops at various places along the lines. In sub-zero temperatures in no-man's land near Armentieres, France, the soldiers played what game?
32. What ampihibia are native to Europe and Asia, with 4 fingers and five toes, one species of which ejects a white poisonous fluid from the glands in the skin?
33. What is the most frequently used indigenous language of Mozambique?
34. The ozone molecule is made up of three atoms of which gas?
35. What name was given to the conflict between Great Britain and Spain from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742?
36. Which of these garments originated on the continent of Asia?
37. What is Judge Judy's last name?
38. A painting by Sandro Botticelli that depicts a goddess, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore on a sea shell is called "The Birth of ..... '' who?
39. What are the 26 areas called that make up The Swiss Confederation?
40. British playwright, broadcaster, and children's author, Roger McGough, is also widely known for what?
41. A drake is the adult male of which bird?
42. What is the reputed 13th century burial place of Genghis Khan?
43. Bile is made in the liver and discharged into the duodenum. Where is it stored and concentrated on this journey?
44. What is a khukri?
45. What was the family name of the Annie of the musical "Annie Get Your Gun" ?
46. Which of these vitamins is found in quantity in sunflower oil?
47. For what did William Kemmler, then at New York's Auburn Prison, become famous on 6 August 1890?
48. The national flag of which of these countries does not have a Union Jack in the corner?
49. What is the name for the movement formed by John Nelson Darby and colleagues in the 1830s?
50. Which of these names is associated with Jamie Oliver?
51. Which of these was one of the targets of "Operation Chastise" carried out by the British in 1943 during World War II?
52. The president of which country was killed in a plane crash near Smolensk airport in April 2010?
53. What is the name for discoveries in detective novels that are put there to mislead the reader?
54. Who painted "Number 5" in 1948?
55. The malted herb-flavoured grain-based spirit mixed from a whisky-like distillate called malt wine and other distillates exclusively in Holland or Belgium, is named for what plant?
56. Who was the female co-star with Elvis Presley in the film "Viva Las Vegas" ?
57. What is an iamb?
58. The site of what modern landmark residence in London, UK, was at one time owned by King Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, the monks of Westminster Abbey, King Henry VIII, Sir William Blake and Lord Goring?
59. Which of these volcanoes was the last to show major activity?
60. In music, what word means "to be performed without any break between-smooth and sustained" ?
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