General Knowledge Quiz 103 (20 MCQs)

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1. As a crude population measure of obesity, what value of body mass index is considered to show obesity?
2. Miami, Florida, sits near the southernmost point of what land form?
3. The three countries which border the Gulf of Aden are Yemen, Djibouti, and ..... ?
4. Which of these is the closest translation from Hebrew of the word "Rabbi" ?
5. What name is given to the programme of baseball and softball competitions organised for people aged 5 to 18 in the USA?
6. Who said "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl" ?
7. He is an alpine ski racer, who won four overall World Cup titles (1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), two Olympic gold medals (in 1998), and three World Championship titles (1999, 1999 and 2005). Who is he?
8. In which 1981 television series did Kenneth Williams voice at least 13 characters, and together with one other actor voice all of the characters in the series?
9. William Harnett, Annibale Carracci, Abraham van Beyeren, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Giorgio Morandi, Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso all painted what style of painting?
10. Which of these is a type of tuna?
11. Sliced bread, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped", was first sold when?
12. What book was written by Alexandre Dumas about Edmond Dantès's imprisonment in the Chateau d'If?
13. A mechanical reel, which rotates to wind a measured length of yarn into a skein, is known as a spinner's what?
14. Polish pole vaulter, Władysław Kozakiewicz, controversially did what when he won his event in the 1980 Moscow Olympics?
15. What is another term for agnosic alexia?
16. Who is the lead singer of the Rolling Stones?
17. Which of these elements can be used to power a nuclear reactor?
18. Puffin and Penguin, now Penguin Random, are associated with what?
19. According to the English nursery rhyme, who ran after the farmer's wife?
20. What branch of biology, dating from the discovery of blood corpuscles by Marcello Malpighi in 1661, classifies and describes the development of the forms of living organisms?