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General Knowledge Quiz 97 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which publisher(s) founded an imprint in 1908, now owned by Harlequin UK, which by the 1930s began to cater for escapist fiction and continues to do so exclusively?
2. Roger Moore first played James Bond in which film?
3. What do Americans call what the English call "chips" ?
4. Quezon City is the most populous city in which country?
5. What word describes someone skilled in horsemanship?
6. What symptoms most usually present with the first stages of seborrheic dermatitis?
7. In 1994 the international Wassenaar Agreement replaced CoCom, with the aim of contributing to regional and international security by preventing the export of what, in quantity or of a kind which could lead to destabilising accumulation?
8. When were the last elements formally discovered and added to the periodic table of elements?
9. The vast swathe of mostly treeless grassland plains which stretches west to east across central Asia is usually called what?
10. Its capital is Monrovia, its first settlements were founded in 1822 on land bought from local tribal leaders, it was initially a protectorate of the USA but independent from 1847; what country is it?
11. What are the Doukhobors, which originated in Russia in the 18th century?
12. Which of these is a famous conductor?
13. The cedilla appears under what letter in some French words?
14. What does "cogitate" refer to?
15. Which of these dances originated in Cuba?
16. What was the instrument of US jazzman Art Pepper?
17. What was the venue for the only Summer Paralympics, as at 2023, to be held in Canada?
18. Which of these was involved with all three films of the "Jurassic Park" trilogy?
19. Mixed doubles curling was developed to be included in the 2001 inaugural Continental Cup of Curling, had its first World Championship in 2008, and became an Olympic event at which Winter Olympics?
20. What is the more common name for Chopin's "Waltz in D Flat Major" ?
21. In motor mechanics, what does "TDC" stand for?
22. Which play by Alan Ayckbourn calls for a set with three double beds on stage simultaneously?
23. Where was the Ostrogothic Kingdom?
24. Which jazz musician was known for his voluminous cheeks and "bent" trumpet?
25. When were television sets with built-in closed-caption display first introduced to the US?
26. Florence is the capital of what Italian region?
27. What was the first vaccine to be widely used in the western world developed to provide protection against?
28. What was the nickname of jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong?
29. Which of these is not an "angora" ?
30. The song "Why Does It Always Rain on Me" is by which band?
31. The Canary Islands are closest to which mainland country?
32. Which German writer, one of the key figures of the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, produced the two-part drama "Faust", numerous poems and the novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" ?
33. Mills and Boon are publishers of what type of books?
34. The Gaelic name for which sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, is Uamh-Binn, meaning "cave of melody" ?
35. William Wordsworth wrote several of his best known works while living where?
36. Someone who engages in skulduggery is doing what?
37. Where was the organization SOUP (formed in 2010 to promote community-based development through crowdfunding, creativity, collaboration, democracy, trust and fun) started?
38. Which film trilogy consists of three live action fantasy epic films: "The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001), "The Two Towers" (2002) and "The Return of the King" (2003) which is based on a three-volume book by J. R. R. Tolkien?
39. In 2013, how many Prime Ministers served in Australia?
40. What are the two forms of parsley that are used as herbs?
41. What stylised 2012 film, directed by Wes Anderson and starring Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton, Bob Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton and newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward, was set on a fictional New England island?
42. Which 1960s sitcom family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Avenue?
43. In chess, how many squares does the King move when castling?
44. In the early 19th century, who began classifying minerals by their physical characteristics and not, as had been done traditionally, by their chemical composition?
45. How many New Zealanders have won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry?
46. Why could chickens have a special reason to be wary of September or October?
47. Where are macons and cleavers used?
48. The Hindu temple complex of Angkor Wat, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city, is in which country?
49. The name Gurlitt became widely associated in 2013 in the world press with what?
50. What might you find a "dowser" doing?
51. According to the nursery rhyme, where does the Muffin Man live?
52. Several animals or plants have a length of life which extends beyond recorded history. Estimates place possibly the longest lived individual as being what?
53. The "Ballad of Chevy Chase" is an old English folk song about what event?
54. Where is the Great Karoo found?
55. What is "emf" ?
56. The shipbuilder and designer George Steers designed which famous 19th century craft?
57. The hula is traditional dance from where?
58. What is the highest hereditary title in the British peerage?
59. The phrase "Mountain Standard Time Zone" refers to which mountains?
60. Who was Indiana Jones' 11 year old Chinese sidekick in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?
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