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General Knowledge Quiz 104 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which 1982 scifi film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Mary Sean Young, was set in a dystopian 2019 (at that time, the future) Los Angeles, USA?
2. Where is the Gulf of Bothnia?
3. Which game uses six sets of coloured pieces, ten of each colour, whereby a piece moves either to an adjacent spot or by a "jump" over another piece?
4. Where was there an armed attack on the Parliament building by militants on the morning of 19 October 2010?
5. The 1956 French romantic drama "Et Dieu ..... créa la femme" ("And God Created Woman"), starring Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Louis Trintignant, was whose first film as director?
6. If money is hypothecated what does this mean?
7. What was Glenn Miller's signature tune?
8. Which song is this line from: "Shush girl, shut your lips, Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips" ?
9. What was the original prize for winning golf's Open Championship (the British Open)?
10. Which composer of musicals was knighted in 1992 and made a life peer in 1997?
11. The numeral systems which have used 60 as a base include which of these?
12. The small gelatinous stinging freshwater tube-like predators known as hydra have what unusual characteristic?
13. What is the common name for decompression sickness?
14. What striking and fielding team game, originating in England and known in Ireland as cluiche corr, is played between two teams alternating between batting and fielding and involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a round bat and then running around four bases in order to score?
15. Which one of these was awarded the 1943 Best Picture Oscar?
16. What chromosomes do the two main human sexes have?
17. Mike Leigh has been celebrated and much-awarded as a film writer and director, but is also celebrated as a playwright. Which of these plays is his first?
18. Where were public toilet or lavatory facilities first recorded?
19. On 1 May 1707, who became the first sovereign of the "Kingdom of Great Britain" ?
20. "Parsifal" was the last opera by which composer?
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