General Knowledge Quiz 1059 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is a medical term for coughing up blood, associated with lung and heart disease?
2. What is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world, and the second-longest-running medical drama in the world behind America's "General Hospital" ?
3. Louis Goldenberg and Alva J. Fisher have been credited with the invention of what device?
4. After Sir William Herschel observed Uranus on 13 March 1781 while in the garden of his house in Bath, England, he reported it as a what?
5. Alderney is one of which group of islands?
6. Which of these is an alternative name for blacklead?
7. "General Sherman" in California, USA, is the name of what?
8. Sunday Rose are the names of the daughter of Nicole Kidman and whom?
9. Why did Charles de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne establish a foundation in 1945 for people who have Down's Syndrome?
10. Which of these was not written by Oscar Wilde?
11. Who released an album in 2005 called "Confessions on a Dance Floor" ?
12. The following is an extract from what work? "Lo! where the Giant on the mountain stands, His blood-red tresses deep'ning in the sun, With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands, And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon" .
13. The asteroid belt is a series of rocks that orbit the sun between Mars and which other planet?
14. "Prediction is hazardous, especially about the future" is attributed to where?
15. What is the name for a mixture of clay, sand and silt?
16. After golfer Tiger Woods won the Masters in 2019, which of these could be said?
17. What US TV sitcom that ran for 7 years to 19 March 1977 was the first to have an independent career woman, Mary Richards, as the central character?
18. In art, what is the term used for the process of producing an effect by means of dots or small marks with brush or pencil?
19. Where was the first motor race to regularly carry the name Grand Prix, the first of which took place in 1906 on a circuit roughly triangular in shape, each lap covering 105 kilometres (65 miles)?
20. What word means to watch other people play a game?