General Knowledge Quiz 1061 (20 MCQs)

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1. The word "horror" comes from a Latin word meaning what?
2. Which is the largest area?
3. Where is the longest railway tunnel, opened in 2016?
4. What is the term given to the tilt of an aeroplane about its longitudinal axis?
5. In "Five Minute Stories" by Laura Richards, who was said to dance "Oh, high and disposedly, Tips-of-her-toesedly, ..... "?
6. What is the sum of the digits of the product of any number between 1 & 9 multiplied by 9?
7. Africa is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean and which other major body of water?
8. The many hundreds of islands in the western Pacific region known as Micronesia includes five sovereign nations, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and Nauru and which two others?
9. If someone is urged to give something some welly, what are they being invited to do?
10. What multi-user adventure game was developed from 1978 by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle from 1980, students at Essex University in the UK, that revolved around gaining points till one achieved the wizard rank, giving the player immortality and certain powers over mortals?
11. An English physicist in 1913 demonstrated the first justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of what?
12. Which of these is famous for dancing in the rain with an umbrella in a film?
13. What is a heterodyne?
14. What is a Tasmanian Devil?
15. In which film directed by Fred Zinnemann does a US Army officer in Germany (Montgomery Clift) look after a homeless boy (Ian Jandl) until he is returned to his mother (Jarmila Novotna)?
16. At the opening ceremony of every Olympic Games when the athletes parade into the stadium, what is traditionally the first nation to enter?
17. Who was one of the first female movie stars, called "The First Lady of the Silent Screen", who was the only star from the silent era to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, and who received a Special Academy Award in 1971?
18. The US TV series "Sex and the City" was based on a book adapted from a newspaper sex column by which writer?
19. What name is given to art that depicts inanimate (typically commonplace) objects, either natural (e.g. food, flowers, plants, rocks & shells) or man-made (e.g. drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins & pipes) in an artificial setting?
20. Which definition of a number does NOT apply to the mathematical constant pi (π)