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General Knowledge Quiz 1040 (20 MCQs)

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1. Alex Ferguson is said to have used footage of what, in an attempt to motivate his players during his time as manager of Premier League football club Manchester United?
2. Who first mentioned an "Iron Curtain" when discussing Soviet activities immediately after World War II?
3. Prior to Kermit the Frog another Kermit was well-known; he accompanied his father Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the USA, on an expedition 1913-14 during which the River Kermit was named in his honour. Where was the expedition?
4. Who married Bobby Darin in 1960 and was divorced in 1967?
5. The 2010 film "Soulboy" saw two actors working together who four years later would also star in what winner of the Royal Television Society Award in the UK for Best Drama Series?
6. Where was "Postimees", the first regular newspaper published in the language of the indigenous people of what became the independent country, founded in 1857?
7. What is Zhang Guolao known as?
8. It was created by the chef Auguste Escoffier in 1897 to help someone who was very ill, for whom it was later named, and popularised in 1925 by the Mayo Brothers who were prescribing for Ethel Barrymore. What was it?
9. Judd Hirsch, from the TV series "Numbers", was featured in which American sitcom that first aired from 1978 to 1983?
10. What is the minimum age for a horse to race in the Melbourne Cup?
11. Although the first permanent colour photo was taken in 1861 by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, the first 35mm colour film, "Kodachrome", did not reach the market until when?
12. What is a group of conditions involving damage to the joints of the body, the most common form of which is a result of trauma to or infection of the joint, or age?
13. The battles of Talavera and Salamanca took place during which war?
14. Who founded the Ptolemaic dynasty which followed Alexander the Great as Pharaohs of Egypt?
15. Who organised a congress in Paris, on June 23, 1894 to establish the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and choose the host city for the 1896 Olympic Games?
16. What is a handmade shag wool item, traditionally made by the Vlachs in northern Greece and southern Albania in the Pindus mountains?
17. What is the city, founded in the 8th century AD and for more than 400 years a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual centre for the Islamic world until it was destroyed by the Mongols in 1258?
18. The Napa Valley wine producing region is in which country?
19. What 2009 science fiction disaster film starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, and Woody Harrelson references Mayanism and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, depicting a series of "Doomsday" scenarios that plunge the world into chaos?
20. What is geocaching most usually involved in?
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