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General Knowledge Quiz 94 (60 MCQs)

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1. Before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, teams from which country caused a scandal by posing for a pre-Olympic newspaper advertisement pulling back the skin on either side of their eyes, to mimic the typical Asian?
2. Where are the Islay malt whisky distilleries?
3. An axolotl is the larva or early form of what?
4. Sigmund Freud coined the term Oedipus complex to describe the tendency for a male to want to kill his father and marry his mother. What did he call the female equivalent (of a female being attached to her father and wishing to replace her mother)?
5. Who was responsible for an event on 30 July 1749, which crystallised a long-standing persecution of a people, the effects of which continue in Europe?
6. What is the capital of the US state of California?
7. What are spiracles used for?
8. Which pantomime is about the Lord Mayor of London?
9. The first recorded windmills, used in Persia in the 9th century and later India and China, operated on the horizontal plane. When is the first definite record in Europe of the use of vertical windmills instead?
10. Where does the dance called the "tarantella" have its ancient roots?
11. What is an informal phrase for "intelligence" ?
12. Which of these is a famous book by Agatha Christie?
13. What was distinctive about Tarzan's friend in the films, Cheeta?
14. Which of these is a play by Anton Chekhov?
15. Patrick Cox is known as a designer of what?
16. Where are the larger of the remnants of the once 68, 000 sq. km (26, 000 sq miles) Aral Sea?
17. What is the nickname of the Australian national netball team?
18. On 25 November 2010, which country held a general election whereby the majority of seats (17 out of 26) in its Legislative Assembly were elected by universal suffrage for the first time?
19. Either by invitation or by conquest the Viking, or Varangian, leader Rurik (Hrorekr) established himself in 862 CE in which area?
20. In the musical "Oliver!", who is the conniving career criminal who takes in homeless boys and teaches them to pick pockets for him?
21. What does the phrase "in his cups" imply?
22. Of the approximately 13% of its land that Brazil has recognised for its indigenous population, almost all lies where?
23. Which poet is buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey?
24. Traditionally the designation "caviar" is only used for sturgeon roe from the wild species living in the Caspian and Black Seas. Which of these is NOT one of them?
25. What US television series (the format for which is now syndicated world-wide) involves a chief executive spending time as a trainee in his or her own firm?
26. What piece of music was played by German radio in 1945 after the announcement of the death of Adolf Hitler?
27. What is meant by "persona non grata" ?
28. What sort of art work is the "Venus de Milo" ?
29. Where is saxifrage usually found?
30. Which is a saying attributed to Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957?
31. What Winter Olympics follows the 2014 Games?
32. Which English actor, the majority of whose film work was between 1944 ("Waterloo Road") and 1960 ("Tunes of Glory"), won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "Ryan's Daughter" (1970)?
33. Which of these terms would not applied in relation to a drum?
34. The first case of AIDS was discovered in 1981 in which city?
35. What sport did Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt turn his attention to when he retired from athletics in 2017?
36. Which lies farthest west?
37. Who had a famous chestnut horse named "Copenhagen" ?
38. Which of these is a Spanish word for gathering cattle together, for example, for branding them?
39. Which countries are the Togolese Republic's nearest neighbours?
40. What US TV series concerned a New Jersey crime family?
41. Which Mediterranean island is divided politically by the Attila Line?
42. Who was twice the prime minister of Jamaica between 1972 and 1992?
43. In which James Bond film does he have to defeat shipping magnate Karl Stromberg?
44. What is the name of Sydney Harbour, NSW, Australia?
45. What kind of person would be interviewed in a vox pop?
46. Competitors from which country won the most medals at the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand?
47. What was the title applied by the Ottoman Empire and, later, Turkey, to their viceroy of Egypt?
48. What is the name for a period that occurs about every 11 years when the sun's magnetic field lines are the most distorted?
49. A "categorical imperative" is a concept from the 18th century in what?
50. Ashley Madison, the British National Party, Scientology, and Sony Pictures have all been the subject of what?
51. British television journalist, producer and presenter Michael who, has made and/or fronted multiple science, medical and medical history TV programmes?
52. Where is the Professional Darts Council based?
53. In the southern USA, what is the name for an embankment that allows the water to flow at a higher level than the surrounding land?
54. Netflix's 2018 film "Black Mirror:Bandersnatch" is intended to be what?
55. According to the old saying, what is "the spice of life" ?
56. Mike Dee, Ad-Roc and MCA were members of which band?
57. Which of these literary figures was born in the 19th century?
58. Florence Cameron was born daughter to the Prime Minister of which country in August 2010?
59. On 10 and 11 June 1964, what was at 2120 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA?
60. In 1992, the land which lies along the eastern side of Lake Baikal, with a panhandle bordering Mongolia, declared itself the Republic of what?
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