General Knowledge Quiz 1078 (20 MCQs)

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1. By what 1803 agreement did the USA buy 828, 000 square miles (2.14 million km²), approximately a third of all present mainland USA territory-and doubling its territory at the time-stretching diagonally from Montana in the north to New Orleans in the south?
2. What title was held by Edward VIII after his abdication?
3. What sort of animal was "Bambi", the main role in a Walt Disney cartoon released in 1942?
4. Where is the tendon known as the hamstring?
5. Under what name are the participants in the UK TV series "QI" currently known?
6. When was the first train run on the route known as the Orient Express?
7. What fictional football club was the centre for the UK TV series "Footballers' Wives" ?
8. The abacus was designed as a what?
9. Which was one of the longest running characters in a British TV series, from 1979 to 1994, who never appears on screen?
10. What nationality is Jason Wynyard, who gained his fourteenth world championship title in woodchopping and sawing at the world Timbersports championships in Norway in 2017?
11. How did the theme song for the TV show "The Monkees" begin?
12. What is the next in this series:largo, lento, adagio, andante, moderato, allegretto, allegro ..... ?
13. How many broad categories of marine ecosystem are there?
14. American Richard Fosbury was lucky to have what, when he was developing the technique which is named after him?
15. In the UK, the Ordnance Survey is an executive agency of government that is one of the world's largest producers of what?
16. In 1947 what statues were unveiled on either side of the Mandraki Harbour entrance, Rhodes?
17. Which is the smallest European carnivore by weight?
18. The biography by Sir Ranulph Fiennes published in 2003 was about which Captain?
19. What does the internet term "thread" refer to?
20. When is the original version of the statue Mannekin Pis thought to have been built?