General Knowledge Quiz 1017 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which Pope was elected in 2005?
2. Which of these is a character in "The Tempest" ?
3. When is The Sundance Film Festival, that began in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival, held annually?
4. Which long running British police procedural television series that originated as a one-off drama, entitled "Woodentop" in August 1983 was first broadcast in 1984?
5. Where is the Lula (formerly the Tupi) oil field?
6. What film was based on the book "Q and A" by Vikas Swarup?
7. Relative to the sun in our solar system what does 1.30 parsecs represent?
8. What is the current name of the islands originally called the "Sandwich Islands" ?
9. Which of these became an independent country in 1971?
10. How did Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee die in 1967?
11. What is the area 19th century Europeans called the Barbary Coast known as now?
12. In snooker, what colour ball scores 1 point?
13. What is the relationship between Ukrainians Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko, who dominated the IBF, WBO, WBC and IBO world heavyweight championships from 1999 to 2015?
14. Which of these is not a state of the USA?
15. What is the name of the New Zealand national rugby team?
16. Charlie Chaplin wore his tramp costume for the first time in 1914 in which film?
17. What is the shape of a standard cricket pitch?
18. When Martin Luther sent a scholarly treatise to his Bishop, which later became popularised as nailing his ideas to a church door in Wittenberg, the treatise became known as what?
19. What is the city where the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria meets the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia?
20. What mountains or mountain areas shade the Gobi Desert from rain?