General Knowledge Quiz 59 (20 MCQs)

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1. What name is given to an American whiskey, a type of distilled spirit, made primarily from corn and named for a county in Kentucky?

Correct Answer: C) Bourbon.

2. What is the medical term for abnormally low body temperature?

Correct Answer: D) Hypothermia.

3. Which of these animal films was released last?

Correct Answer: A) Babe.

4. Where is the European Court of Human Rights?

Correct Answer: A) Strasbourg.

5. Which of these wars is the earliest in which gunpowder was used in heavy artillery weapons?

Correct Answer: B) Hundred Years' War (from 1337 to 1453).

6. Who created the fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey?

Correct Answer: A) Dorothy L Sayers.

7. Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro are on the coastal termination of what mountain range?

Correct Answer: C) Serra do Espinhaço.

8. Brasília has been the capital of Brazil since 1960. Where was the capital before that?

Correct Answer: C) Rio de Janeiro.

9. Where is the Muglad Basin?

Correct Answer: A) Sudan and Southern Sudan.

10. What is the relationship between Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist Christy Moore and Irish folk-rock singer-songwriter Luka Bloom?

Correct Answer: B) Brothers.

11. In 1978 George Moscone, the mayor of which city, and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by ex-supervisor Dan White?

Correct Answer: D) San Francisco.

12. What is the name of a game played with rope rings that are caught and thrown by the players on a court similar to a tennis court?

Correct Answer: D) Deck quoits.

13. Which of these organisations was not founded in England?

Correct Answer: B) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

14. Where is the Darién Gap?

Correct Answer: C) In Panama and north Colombia.

15. Which is the largest of the Channel Islands, where the official language is French?

Correct Answer: C) Jersey.

16. What is the name for a hydrometer which is used for determining the alcoholic strength of liquids?

Correct Answer: C) Proof & tralle hydrometer.

17. When "The Titanic" set out on her maiden voyage, she had enough lifeboats for what percentage of the passengers and crew that were on board?

Correct Answer: A) 50.

18. How is the value of eight expressed in a base eight numbering system?

Correct Answer: A) 10.

19. Which cricketer scored 158 runs in 2005 to secure the Ashes for England?

Correct Answer: B) Kevin Pietersen.

20. Which of these is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan?

Correct Answer: C) Karate.