General Knowledge Quiz 1014 (20 MCQs)

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1. In England, which fish, when caught in a river, traditionally belongs to the Sovereign?
2. What can 1+1 equal?
3. Which of these is used as an artificial and concentrated sweetener?
4. Hudson Bay is a large inland sea in which country?
5. Which family of palaeoanthropologists is most associated with work in the Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania?
6. What is a Barnes Dance?
7. Which mountain in the Sierra Nevada just over 13, 000 feet high was climbed in 1890 by Joseph N. Le Conte, Hubert P. Dyer, Fred S. Pheby, and C. B. Lakeman, who initially called it University Peak?
8. After the game of Australian Football was formulated in the 1850s, which was the first club (formed in 1858) to introduce the Australian-made rules which developed into the country-wide rules of the game?
9. Which 20th century English playwright wrote "The Winslow Boy" and "Separate Tables" ?
10. What song plays over the closing credits of "Die Hard" (1988)?
11. Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), art critic, patron and ballet impresario, founded what famous ballet company in 1909?
12. Where or what is the Circle of Willis?
13. What is trona?
14. When did the British soap opera "Coronation Street" first go to air?
15. Which organisation, which has its Headquarters in Paris, was established on 16 November 1945?
16. What sea creature living in the Arctic has a tapering tusk, spirally grooved, 2 to 3 metres (7 to 10 feet) long?
17. "Million Dollar Quartet" is a stage musical by Floyd Mutrux & Colin Escott that opened on Broadway on 11 April 2010. Who are "the quartet" ?
18. Which of the core cast of the TV series "Friends" also appeared in the 2000 film "The Whole Nine Yards" with Bruce Willis?
19. Which of these words does not owe its origins to an Arabic language?
20. The Battle of Banquan, recorded in Chinese annals written in the 1st and 2nd centuries BCE as China's first large scale battle, resulted in victory for whom?