General Knowledge Quiz 1099 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is true of adders?
2. What is the title of the unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson?
3. What was signed to end World War I?
4. Who created the Daleks?
5. Which of these is a Thracian shepherd captured by Romans and trained as a gladiator, who escaped and became leader of an army of escaped slaves in the first century BC?
6. By what name is Vincent Damon Furnier better known?
7. What is the name given to the silent electrical discharge between the atmosphere and, for example, trees, ships' masts, steeples and flagpoles?
8. Which American science fiction television series, first aired from 1993 to 2002, tapped into public mistrust of governments and large institutions and interest in conspiracy theories and spirituality, centring on efforts to uncover the existence of extraterrestrial life?
9. Which of these are dialects of the Inuit language spoken in the northern Northwest Territories of Canada?
10. What is the capital of Serbia?
11. Who sang, backed by U2, as the first song in the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London, in 2005?
12. What was the name of his backing band for Bill Haley on the record "Rock Around the Clock" that was released in 1954?
13. A species of the plant artemisia used to be a main ingredient in what drink?
14. Who was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia?
15. Which company designed the "safety pin dress" worn by Liz Hurley to a 1994 Los Angeles film premiere?
16. How many million years ago (mya) is it estimated that the ancient supercontinent Pangaea started to break up?
17. Which mammal(s) are covered in large scales?
18. Which of these originated in Japan?
19. A "parsec" is a measure of what?
20. Sir Peter Blake led a team which won what in 1995 and 2000?