General Knowledge Quiz 1071 (20 MCQs)

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1. The Arapawa Island, California Red, Corriedale, East Friesian, Hampshire, Oxford, Romney, South Dorset, Swifter and Yemeni are all types of what?
2. The first club in England was incorporated in 1872 for which sport that originated in India?
3. Which song begins by describing what happens at "nine o'clock on a Saturday" (when the regular crowd shuffles in)?
4. What is a use in the 21st century for gutta-percha?
5. Who became the King of Spain on 22 November 1975, two days after the death of Francisco Franco?
6. What happened on the 1 September 1923, aggravated by the days that followed, to devastate Japan's thriving economy?
7. Which volcano buried the Italian city of Pompeii?
8. Which of these is not part of Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle" ?
9. Which are the only strictly marine herbivorous mammals?
10. Which of these would the abbreviation CBD not apply to?
11. What was Jean Harlow known as?
12. Where is the Tropic of Cancer currently?
13. What attaches muscles to bone?
14. The works of artists De Chirico, André Breton, Miró, Magritte, Dalí and Ernst are examples of what art movement?
15. The Garonne river passes through Toulouse and Bordeaux after rising where?
16. Who was known as the shoe bomber, who in 2003 was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to destroy a commercial aircraft in-flight by detonating explosives hidden in his shoes, which led to the requirement of US airline passengers having to remove their shoes for inspection before boarding?
17. The phrase "as green as grass" is an example of ..... what?
18. According to Charlotte Brontë, who did Jane Eyre marry?
19. The Tuareg are the principal inhabitants of which area?
20. Who has been Prime Minister of France twice and President of France once?