General Knowledge Quiz 1000 (20 MCQs)

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1. If someone is referred to as "ursine", what animal are they being compared to?
2. Which of these would definitely not have been able to observe the rings of the planet Saturn through a telescope?
3. A range of devices including stick-on tattoos to be a password ID or hydration sensor, and a pill which when swallowed would emit a signal to communicate with external sensors and similar, was developed by which company?
4. What has been seen as one of the intermediate vectors of the coronavirus, Covid-19, which appeared in 2020?
5. What is another name for China clay?
6. Which people (besides the Rolling Stones) appeared on the cover of "Their Satanic Majesties Request", a 1967 album by The Rolling Stones?
7. In 1858, why did Paul Broca name 5 skeletons "Cro-magnon Man" ?
8. According to the Bible, who was the son of Isaac and Rebeckah, the twin brother to Esau, the husband of Leah and Rachel, and the father of Joseph?
9. Which of these is a vinyl record that is smaller than an LP?
10. What do the tampura, theorbo, vihuela and vina have in common?
11. For what did its composer create the 1842 piece, the "Wedding March", which became a highly popular part of European and many other weddings after 1858?
12. In 1838, which steamship made the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, from Bristol to New York?
13. Bourbon is the usual basis for which of these cocktails?
14. He clasps the crag with crooked claws is an example of what?
15. Which of these is not one of the primary users of the Airbus A380, a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine airliner?
16. Antoni Gaudi is responsible for the architecture of which building which is still being constructed to his original plans and drawings, 90 years after his death?
17. Which film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was about a young ballet dancer who defies the producer by being in love with a composer, and starred Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann and Marius Goring?
18. Renee Zellweger played which author in a 2007 film?
19. Which agency provided security for the 1980 Winter Olympics?
20. Leni Riefenstahl made a still highly praised film released in 1938, which centred on what?