250 General Knowledge Question Answers
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE MCQS
Questions and answers
1. What does `The Cherry Orchard'
have in common with old editions of `Startrek'?
2. In Australia, how is the date of Mothers' Day calculated?
3. Which President of the USSR encouraged the policy of Glassnost?
4. What was built by inmates taken from Changi Prison Camp?
5. What is the world's largest desert?
6. Nino Culotto was his pen-name. What was his REAL name?
7. What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet?
8. Who wrote `The Entertainer', music made famous by the
film,`The Sting'?
9. In Greek legend, what was eaten on the island of Jerba?
10. What was the name of Ulysses' son, who grew to manhood
in his absence?
11. Which Knight caused the death of the Lady of Shallott?
12. What monument occupies centre stage inTrafalgar Square?
13. Which book catapulted Germaine Greer to fame?
14. What was the classical standard language of ancient India?
15. Who directed and starred in films such as `The little Tramp'?
16. Name the three types of classical architectural column.
17. Who was Doctor Zhivago's great love?
18. Name the commoner who ruled England in 1658-59.
19. Which ghost ship is the theme of an 1841 opera by Richard Wagner?
20. What career did the Duke of Wellington pursue after the Battle of Waterloo?
21. Which popular hymn was composed
by Sir Arthur Sullivan of Opera Fame?
22. What is the literal meaning of `pince-nez'. glasses?
23. Beneath which Paris monument is the tomb of France's
unknown soldier?
24. What type of puppets are t hose whose movements
are controlled by strings?
25. Which drug is best known for its use in preventing malaria?
26. Identify the 15th century British
war fought by the Houses of Lancaster
and YorkBR>
27. Which sea is so named because it is too salty to maintain life
28. What is the most indispensable instrument in astronomy?
29. Which literary doctor owns a parrot called `Polynesia'?
30. Name the Australian singer whose first hit, in the 1960s,
was `I Remember You'. `Four On The Floor'
pertain?
31. What is Sydney's equivalent to San Francisco's `Bay To Breakers' footrace'?
32. Which independent island is Australia's nearest neighbour
to the west?
33. At the end of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet',
which of the principals are dead?
34. Name two fictional
or historical characters who fought with quarterstaffs on a log bridge ?
35. What is the name of Greg Norman's business?
36. Name a state of U.S.A. beginning with `B'.
37. Whom did Yoko Ono
marry only to lose to an assassin?
38. Wo dubbed Australia `The Lucky Country' in one of his novels?
39. Which biblical event supports the superstition that 13 is
an unlucky number?
40. How much was 240 pence in predecimal currency
41. Which comic- strip drake is a multi-billionaire?
42. What was the first event decided at the 1896 Olympics?
43. Which is the only continent occupied by one nation?
44. What inspired the convex golden disc as the Order of
Australia ?
45. Which 1980 song hit was writen by Joe Dolce, an Italian migrant?
46. What is God called by the Islamic or Muslim faith?
47. Which radiation belt around the earth was named after an
American physicist?
48. What is significant about a score of 4137 points in billiards?
49. Who was the famous Nez Perce Indian chief?
50. Which Slim Dusty 'hotel' song is Australia's only gold 78 record?
51. After Carruthers, Rose and Famechon, who was Australia's fourth world boxing
champion?
52. What is an ocarina whose size and shape resembles a goose egg?
53. In which American city was the world's first skyscraper
built in 1885?
54. What is the Christian name of Webster,
who published a dictionary still used today ?
55. Outside of the Presidency, what is the highest American
political office?
56. Name the only boxer to knock out Mohammed Ali
57. Which Australian state is host to the town of Gundagai?
58. On what date to Americans celebrate their Independence Day?
59. Who starred in the film version of To Kill A Mockingbird?
60. Which modern language gives us the term finito ?
61. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
62. Which Australian city will host the 2001 Goodwill Games?
63. The prefix gastro refers to which bodily organ?
64. If you are celebrating your Diamond Anniversary, how many years have you been married
?
65. Boxers often suffer
from a condition in which their ears are misshapen..what is this called?
66. Who wrote the famous poem
Daffodils?
67. In what decade
of this century
was it decided US Presidents would be restricted to two terms?
68. What was the given name of Stalin's
daughter who defected
to the US in 1967?
69. Name the South African surgeon
who carried out the first heart transplant operation.
70. The revolutionary newspaper, Pravda was first published in
1912...but WHERE?
71. What the the first ship to reach Titanic after the disaster?
72. Where in the US did the dance , the Charleston originate?
73. Which American author wrote the novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?
74. Who piloted the US aircraft shot down byt he USSR in 1960 ?
75. Where were the 1960 Summer Olympics held?
76. In what year was the Rainbow Warrior sunk in New Zealand waters?
77. Who became the first Overlord Of England and Wales?
78. Which animal is likely to suffer from the disease, heaves ?
79. Who wrote The Happy Prince?
80. For what sport is a harrier bred??
81. Where in Australia is Palm Valley ?
82. What breed of farm animal is a Polwarth?
83. Who named Manly Cove , situated in Sydney Harbour?
84. Name the main ore of iron.
85. What is the study of heredity called?
86. Rose Hill was the original
name of Australia's second settlement ...what is it called now??
87. What term is used to describe fertile land being 'rested'
for a season?
88. Who is the patron saint of children ?
89. Who did Amin overthrow in
1971?
90. What ancient unit of measurement is suppposedly the distance from the elbow
to the tip of the index finger?
91. Which was the second James Bond novel to be made into a movie?
92. Can you name the only two countries to have declared
independence from Britain?
93. What is the official language of Egypt?
94. On which continent
is Vincon Massif the highest
peak? 95. Do polar bears eat penguins?
96. In which country would you find Tabasco?
97. What is the more common name for the tympanic membrane ?
98. Name the street that is home to British journalism.
99. What was H.G. Wells' first novel?
99. What was H.G. Wells' first novel?
100. Which Australian city was host to the nations's first steam train.and
its first electric
train?
101. What is the best-known university in Paris?
102.
What is the birthstone for September?
103. Where did John F. Kennedy,
Lee Harvery Oswald and Jack Ruby all die?
104.
What is the last book of
the Bible?
105. Which movie's last line is " After all, tomorrow is
another day"?
106.
In Disney comics, who are
Daisy Duck's three nieces?
107. At which Melbourne hotel did the Beatles stay in 1964 ?
108.
Who was the first New
Australian to become, in 1961, Miss Australia?
109. Which edifice stands on the banks of the River Jumna, at Agra?
110. What does one call ornamental work in silver or gold thread?
111. Which Norse god had, as handmaidens, the Valkyrie?
112. Which British Battleship was sunk, in 1941, by The Bismark?
113. What is the alternative name for a beekeeper?
114. Which 1975 Dickens drama was planned as a musical but screened without any songs ?
115. Which British novel was the subject of "Sailor"?
116. How many books comprise the Old and the New Testaments?
117. At what angle above the horizon must the sun be to create a rainbow?
118. Which song is based on California's 1849 gold rush?
119. What is the only crime for which church sanctuary is not available?
110. What does one call ornamental work in silver or gold thread?
111. Which Norse god had, as handmaidens, the Valkyrie?
112. Which British Battleship was sunk, in 1941, by The Bismark?
113. What is the alternative name for a beekeeper?
114. Which 1975 Dickens drama was planned as a musical but screened without any songs ?
115. Which British novel was the subject of "Sailor"?
116. How many books comprise the Old and the New Testaments?
117. At what angle above the horizon must the sun be to create a rainbow?
118. Which song is based on California's 1849 gold rush?
119. What is the only crime for which church sanctuary is not available?
120. What was the full name of Brutus, one of Caesar's murderers?
121.
What was the American
codename for the development of the atom bomb?
122. Which western law enfromcement agency's motto was ,
"One riot-One Ranger?"
123.
What is the Hebrew name of
Calvary, where Christ was crucified ?
124. Which number on a roulette wheel is coloured green?
125.
How many cannons are
involved in a Royal Salute
126. What type of Moscow institution is GUM?
127.
Which island is 50 times
larger tha its mother country, Denmark?
128. Who was the first white man to climb Mt Kosciusko?
129.
Name Australia's first
"Girlie" magazine, launched in 1936
130. What name is given to the Pope's pontificial ring?
131.
What ingredient did Cap O'
Rushes order omitted from the wedding meats?
132. Who are the traditional inhabitants of Dovrafell?"
133.
What was the name of
Childe Rowland's sister, whom he rescued ?
134. Which witch travelled in a mortar which she drove along
with a pestle?
135.
Who caught Tommy Grimes?
136. What was it that Princess Margaret was changed into by her wicked stepmother, the Witch-Queen of Bamborough Castle?
136. What was it that Princess Margaret was changed into by her wicked stepmother, the Witch-Queen of Bamborough Castle?
137.
Who fought the Queen of
the Fairies for Tamlane, her
love..and won??
138. Which fiend terrorized the Hall of Hrothgar?
139.
And who freed Hrothgar's
Hall of this menace?BR>
140. What was kept in Iduna's magic casket?
141.
What was the name of the
first patented contraceptive pill ?
142. What name is given, collectively, to the first five books of the Old Testament?"
143.
In what year did Japan
bomb Pearl Harbour ?
144. Ulan Bator is the capital of which nation?
145.
What unit of heat is required
to raise 1 gm of water by one degree
Celsius?
146. Which airline owned the jet that exploded over Lockerbie,
Scotland, in 1988?
147.
What number
did Michael Jordan
make famous during
his career with the Chicago
Bulls??
148. Which floor covering
is constructed by covering hessian
or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork and rosin?
149.
In which American state
would you find the city of Phoenix?
150. How many sides does a RHOMBUS have?
151.
Which American state has
its capital Harrisburg?
152. Which six letter word describes the number of members of a body required to be present to conduct business legally ?
152. Which six letter word describes the number of members of a body required to be present to conduct business legally ?
153.
Which company that
developed the pentium processor for computers?
154. What name was given to the rockets
used to launch
the Apollo space missions?
155.
Until the end of the 20th Century, what was the most popular
name adopted by the popes?
156. In which year did Pope Benedict XV declare Joan of Arc a saint?
157. The mummies of Egyptian Pharaohs were often buried in what type of transport, believed to assist them to travel to the next world?
157. The mummies of Egyptian Pharaohs were often buried in what type of transport, believed to assist them to travel to the next world?
158.
How many films did Charles Chaplin
make during his 53-year carer,
from 1914 to 1967?
159. Which band had a hit with the song ,California Dreamin'?
160.
What name is given to the
star that appears on the flag of Israel?
161. Which amusement park opened in Anaheim, California, on
July 18th., 1955 ?
162.
Name the wife of the
Phillipines dictator, Ferdinand Marcos
163. K is the chemical symbol
for what? 164. On what date is Australia Day celebrated?
165.
Who wrote the play, "The Mousetrap"?
166. How old was Boris Becker when he won his first Wimbledon
Singles title?
167.
How many Spice Girls were
there in 1997?
168. Who played the title role in the film "Gandhi"?
169.
In the nursery rhyme, what
do we ask Mary, mary, Quite contrary?
170. In what country
would you find the Grand
Prix circuit known
as Silverstone?
171.
Which American President
was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz ?
172. Complete the proverb No kitchen is big enough to hold...
173.
Who developed Meccano?
174. To which people did Delilah
pass soon the secret of Samson's strength?
175.
Who wrote the shortest of
the gospels?
176. Complete this proverb: The end justifies .........
177.
Who said: "A crank is
a man with a new idea--until it catches on"?
178. Who wrote the song, Imagine? 179. Name the first woman in space
180.
Who was convicted of
shooting and killing John F Kennedy?
181. In which country did the Volkswagon originate ?
182.
"The Sound Of
Music" is set in which European country....
183. Which planet has the longest year?
184.
In Earth terms , how long
is that year?
185. What is the highest mountain in New Zealand?
186. What is the 12th letter of the English alphabet
187.
Who teamed up with Neil Diamond
to perfom the hit song, "You Don't Send Me Flowers"?
188. 1974 saw Portugal
involved in a revolution which became known by which floral name??
189.
What term is used to describe
the wool cut from around
a sheep's eyes?
190. What type of creature is a beagle?
191.
In which Asian nation
would you find the state of Punjab?
192. What is the wellknown French
word for "pen"?
193.
Ra is the chemical
symbol for which
element?
194. What five-letter word, beginning with q, is used to describe a lock or curl of hair on the forehead? 195. How many metres make a kilometre?
194. What five-letter word, beginning with q, is used to describe a lock or curl of hair on the forehead? 195. How many metres make a kilometre?
196.
Who was the great Spanish
Painter whose first name was Pablo?
197.
Who founded the Kentucky
Fried Chicken restaurant chain?
198. Which 1970s band had a hit with "Mama Mia"?
199.
In which year did Fred
Astair die?
200. Which river did Johann Strauss describe as "blue"?
201.
For what crime is Vincent
Perrugia best remembered?
202. Which Florentine woman was mother
to 3 kings of France,
and wife to another?
203.
Who was the 3rd man on the moon?
204.
Who designed Queen
Elizabeth II's wedding dress?
205. What was the name of Homer Simpson's Bowling team?
206.
Which 1970's hit movie was
based on a poem by James Dickey?
207. Which famous musician & singer was born McKinley Morganfield? The CSS Point
207. Which famous musician & singer was born McKinley Morganfield? The CSS Point
208.
Who was the last person to
be executed in the Tower of London?
209.
In what film would
you have seen a sword
fight on the Cliffs of Insanity?
210. What is the world's largest bird of prey?
211. Sir Mark Oliphant was once Premier of which Australian State?
211. Sir Mark Oliphant was once Premier of which Australian State?
212. Near which Israeli city would you find the Mount Of Olives?
213.
What colour are the towers
of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge?
214. What is the sixth letter of hte English alphabet?
215.
How many years of marraige are celebrated by a Golden
Wedding Anniversary?
216. How many dwarves lived in the house discovered by Snow White?
217.
By what short name were the Secret State Police of Nazi Germany
known?
218. Musican Bo Didley is famous for playing which instrument?
219.
Which acress began life as
Doris Kapellhoff?
220. What name is given to the punctuation mark with a dot directly
above a comma?
221.
What country produces
Rioja wines?
222. Who was the favourite daughter of Shakespeare's King Lear?
223. Which Australkian city includes the suburbs of Cottesloe
and Subiaco?
224.
Who discovered Oxygen in 1774?
225. Name the author of A Town
Like Alice
226.
How many Earth years does
it take Pluto to orbit the sun?
227. What name is given to the central
part of a fleshy fruit,
containing the seeds?
228.
What letter appears to the
right of Y on a keyboard?
229. What is it that makes
soda water fizz?
230. What disease
is the Sabin Vaccine
used to prevent?
231.
Name the actor grandfathr
of Drew Barrymore.
232. Who is the female host of the television show, Better Homes and Gardens?
233.
Which comedian
once said, "A
well-balanced person has a drink in each hand"?
234. Complete this proverb:
A growing youth
has a..... ?
235.
What are the three given
names of author JRR Tolkein?
236. Who portrayed Kevin Arnold in the television series, The
Wonder Years?
237.
With whom did Barbra
Streisand team to release the hit song,
"You Don't Bring Me Flowers"?
238. Complete this proverb: Facts are ..............
239.
Who portrayed Melanie
Wilks in the film, Gone With The Wind?
240. Name the Australian artist who painted "The Rabbiters"
241.
In the famous 'White Horse' FA Cup final of 1923, what was the name of the White Horse?
242. Which is the largest of the Trucial
states? 243. Whose last words were 'The rest is silence'?
244.
What was double-headed for
Russia & Austria, but single-headed for
Germany?
245. In the famous April Fools Day joke, where did Richard Dimbleby
say that spaghetti
was being grown on trees?
246.
Which Florentine woman was mother
to 3 kings of France,
and wife to another?
247. Who designed Queen Elizabeth II's wedding dress?
248.
For what crime is Vincent
Perrugia best remembered?
THE ANSWERS
1. Mr Checkhov!
2. It's always the second Sunday in May.
3. Mr Gorbachov
4. The Burma Railway.
5. The Sahara
6. John O'Grady
7. Omega
8. Scott Joplin
9. Lotuses.
10. Telemachus
11. Sir Lancelot
12. Nelson's Colums
13. The Female Eunuch
14. Sanskrit
15. Charlie Chaplin
16. Doric, Ionic and Coninthian
17. Lara
18. Richard Cromwell
19. The Flying Dutchman
20. Political: he was British PM 1828-30
21. 'Onward Christian Soldiers'
22. 'Pinch-nose'
23. Arc De Triomphe
24. Marionettes
25. Quinine
26. War Of The Roses
27. Dead Sea
28. Telescope
29. Dr Doolittle
30. Frank Ifield
31. City To Surf race
32. Mauritius
33. Both Romeo and Juliet
34. Robin Hood and Little John
35. Great White Shark Enterprises
36. There is none! 37. John
Lennon
38. Donald Horne 39. Thirteen people at the Last
Supper
40. One pound
41. Scrooge McDuck
42. Triple jump
43. Australia
44. Wattle blossom
45. Shaddap You Face
46. Allah
47. (James) Van Allen Belts
48. It is Walter Lindrum's world-record break
49. Chief Joseph
50. The Pub With No Beer
51. Rocky Mattioil,WBC Junior
Middleweight
52. Wind musical instrument
53. Chicago 54. Noah
55. President of the United States Senate
56. Larry Holmes in 1980
57. New South Wales
58. July 4th
59. Gregory Peck
60. Italian
61. Michelangelo
62. Brisbane
63. The stomach
64. Sixty
65. Cauliflower Ear
66. William Wordsworth 67. The 6th., 1951
66. William Wordsworth 67. The 6th., 1951
68. Svetlana 69. Dr Christian Barnard
70. Russia
71. The Carparthia
72. Charleston, South Carolina
73. Anita Loos
74. Francis Gary Powers
75. Rome 76. 1985
75. Rome 76. 1985
77. Egbert of Wessex
78. A horse
79. Oscar Wilde
80. It is a hunting dog
81. The Northern Territory
82. A sheep
83. Governor Arthur Philip
84. Hematite
85. Genetics
86. Parramatta
87. Fallow 88. St Nicholas
89. Milton Obote
90. The cubit
91. From Russia With Love
92. The USA and Rhodesia
93. Arabic
94. Antarctica
95. No, Polar bears
live in the Arctic, while Penguins inhabit
the Antarctic and other southern
areas
96. Mexico
97. The eardrum
98. Fleet Street
99. The Time Machine
100. Melbourne
101.
The Sorbonne
102. Sapphire
103.
Parkland Memorial
Hospital, Dallas, Texas, USA.
104. Revelation
105.
GoneWith The Wind
106. April, May and June
107.
The Southern Cross
108. Tania Verstak
109.
The Taj Mahal
110. Filigree
111. Odin
112. HMS Hood
113. Apiarist
114. Great Expectations
115. HMS Ark Royal
116. 39 in the Old Testament
and 27 in the New
117. 40 degrees
118. Clementine
119. sacrilege
120.
Marcus Junius Brutus
121. Manhatton Project
122.
Texas Rangers
123. Golgotha
124.
Zero
125. Twenty-one
126.
The largest department-store
127. Greenland
128.
Paul Strzlecki
129. Men
130.
The Fisherman's Ring
131. Salt
132.
The trolls of Denmark
133. Burd Ellen
134.
Russia's Baba Yaga
135.
Mr Miacca
136. The Laidly Worm
137.
Fair Janet
138. Grendel
139.
Beowulf
140. The Apples Of Youth which
kept the Aesir young
141.
Enovid
142. The Pentaleuch 143. 1941
142. The Pentaleuch 143. 1941
144.
Mongolia
145.
One calorie
146. Pan Am
147. 23
147. 23
148. Linoleum
149.
Arizona
150. Four
151.
Pennsylvania
152. Quorum
153.
Intel
154. Saturn
155. John,(6) 156. 1920.
157. Boats
158. 89
155. John,(6) 156. 1920.
157. Boats
158. 89
159.
The Mamas and The Papas
160. The Star Of David
161.
Disneyland
162. Imelda
163.
Potassium
164. January 26th
165.
Agatha Christie
166. 17
166. 17
167.
Five
168. Ben Kingsley
169.
How Does Your Garden Grow?
170. England
171.
William Mckinley
172. Two Women
172. Two Women
173.
Frank Hornby
174. The Philistines
175.
Mark
176. The means
176. The means
177.
Mark Twain
178. John Lennon
179.
Valentina Tereshkova
180.
Noone. Lee Harvey Oswald
was suspected but murdered before
any conviction was recorded
181. Germany
182.
Austria
183. Pluto
184.
247 years, 255 days
185. Mt Cook
186.
L
187. Barbara Streisand
188.
Carnation Revolution
189. Eyeclip
190.
Dog
191. India
192.
Plume
193. Radium
194. Quiff
195. 1000
196.
Picasso
197. Colonel Harlan Sanders
198. ABBA
199. 1987
200.
The Danube.
201.
He Stole The Mona Lisa
202. Catherine De Medici
203.
Charles Conrad
204. Norman Hartnell
205.
Pin Pals
206. Deliverance
207.
Muddy Waters
208. Josef Jakobs
209.
The Princess Bride
210. Californian Condor.
211. South Australia
211. South Australia
212. Jerusalem
213.
Red
214. F
215. 50
216. 7
215. 50
216. 7
217.
Gestapo
218. Guitar
219. Doris Day
220.
Semi-colon.
221. Spain
222.
Cordelia
223. Perth
224.
Joseph Priestly
225. Nevil Shute
226.
248
227.
The core
228.
U
229. Carbon Dioxide
230.
Polio
231. John Barrymore
232.
Noni Hazlehurst
233. Billy Connolly
234.
Wolf in his belly
235. John Ronald Reuel
236.
Fred Savage
237. Neil Diamond
238.
Stubborn things
239. Olivia De Havilland
240.
Sir Russell Drysdale
241. Billy
242. Abu-Dhabi
243.
Hamlet s
244. Imperial Eagle
245.
Southern Switzerland
246. Catherine De Medici
247.
Norman Hartnell
248. He Stole The Mona Lisa
249.
Charles Conrad
250. Curling
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