General Knowledge Quiz 1057 (20 MCQs)

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1. What large bottle holds 16 standard bottles of wine?
2. Which of these teaches:that the religions of the world come from the same source and are in essence successive chapters of one religion from God, and there is need to find a unifying vision of the future of society and of the nature and purpose of life?
3. What was the scene of the final defeat of the Jacobites under Charles Edward Stuart by forces under the command of the Duke of Cumberland on 16 April 1746?
4. Whose alter egos have included Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and "The Thin White Duke" ?
5. What are "The Gorbals" ?
6. Which of these was a horse that won the British Grand National three times, in 1973, 1974 and 1977?
7. On 12 June 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected as president of which country?
8. Which American novelist, poet and painter, a major figure of the Beat Generation who affected popular culture as well as literature, shot his wife in Mexico in 1951?
9. Where is the Maasai Mara?
10. Which UK playwright wrote the 2014 plays "Glasshouse" and "Hopelessly Devoted" ?
11. The name for the vegetable okra in some Bantu languages is thought to be the origin of the name of what dish?
12. Abraham Ortelius, a Flemish cartographer and geographer, is generally recognised as the creator of the first what in 1570?
13. What word describes a retail dealer in special supplies or equipment for ships?
14. According to Celtic legend, where did heroes go to die?
15. Where is the Cotahausi Canyon, one of the deepest canyons in the world and over twice as deep, at its deepest point, as the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA?
16. The film "Jaws" was set in which town?
17. Which of these events occurred first?
18. Who wrote the song to which Miley Cyrus famously twerked in 2013?
19. Which of these starred in the television series "Kojak" ?
20. How did Shakespeare in his play "Cymbeline" end the line, "Golden lads and girls all must as chimneysweepers come to ..... "?