General Knowledge Quiz 1002 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which state of the USA has the Union Jack on its state flag?
2. Who wrote the book "Das Kapital" ?
3. The Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, the Uffizi, the Pitti Palace, the Fontana del Nettuno and the Boboli Gardens are in what city?
4. Which city in Italy does the football team which was the 2016/17 Serie A Champion represent?
5. Many major sporting fixtures were not held in 1919 because of what reason?
6. Who starred in the film "Good Morning, Vietnam" (1987)?
7. Which US president was behind "The Indian Removal Act" of 1830, which paved the way for the reluctant and often forced emigration of tens of thousands of American Indians to the West?
8. What is the next in this series:1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude ..... ?
9. Alan Longmuir, Derek Longmuir, Eric Faulkner, Stuart "Woody" Wood and Les McKeown were collectively known as what band from 1974 to 1976?
10. What was the governing body of ancient Rome?
11. Which is the world's most populous country to have a Muslim majority of over 85%?
12. What is the term for the attribution of human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts, (e.g. animals, plants and forces of nature such as winds, the rain or the sun)?
13. According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of Dance?
14. What 1976-9 UK TV series, written by David Nobbs, frequently featured brief footage of a hippopotamus?
15. Beals Conjecture, or the Tijdeman-Zagier conjecture, in number theory grew from investigations in which of these?
16. Who portrays the fictional character Captain Jack Sparrow on film?
17. At the 1st World Rowing Championships held at Lucerne in 1962, the International Federation of Rowing Associations did not recognise countries with similar names. Selection trials from 2 countries were held the day before the championships. Which "country" was this?
18. The Secretaries-General of the United Nations 1946 to 1991 were successively from Norway, Sweden, Myanmar (Burma), Austria, and Peru; which country was next?
19. The tango is a dance originating from which country?
20. Where did the Global United Football Club arrange to take 2 teams of football and entertainment celebrities to play an exhibition game in December 2010?