General Knowledge Quiz 110 (20 MCQs)

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1. Ramón Emeterio Betances, Segundo Ruiz Belvis and Francisco Ramírez Medina were revolutionaries who attempted to free Puerto Rico from rule by which country?
2. What was the favourite food of Jiggs, one of the lead characters in the comic strip "Bringing Up Father" that was created by George McManus and ran from January 1913 to May 2000?
3. Which English poet, dramatist, and art historian, a pioneer in the European study of Far Eastern painting wrote the memorial ode to dead soldiers of World War I, "For the Fallen" (1914)
4. The song "Love is All Around" by Wet Wet Wet featured on the soundtrack for which 1994 film?
5. George Gershwin wrote a piece of music called "Rhapsody in ..... " what?
6. What does large-scale thermohaline circulation drive?
7. What sort of animal is a salamander?
8. What does the parotid gland produce?
9. The first Summer Olympics to be held in Canada were held in what city?
10. What sent back the first pictures of the moon's surface by video?
11. What object, containing 14 lines of hieroglyphs, 32 of demotic and 54 of Greek, was a key to deciphering writing from ancient Egypt?
12. What nickname was given to German Chancellor Otto Van Bismarck?
13. Which fermented liquid condiment used for flavouring, especially of grilled meats (and also used as an ingredient in cocktails and drinks) was first made by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins?
14. Who wrote the music for the musical "Cats" ?
15. In "Psycho", who played the character of Marion Crane?
16. Who, after splitting from a long term girlfriend in 2008, briefly dated actress Kate Hudson, and in 2012 was dating Serbian tennis star Ana Ivanovic?
17. Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum. Who did the plant get its name from?
18. Which of these cities is furthest south?
19. If A = 1, B = 2 and so on, what number would represent BEECH?
20. The semi-arid region called the Sahel separates what from the rest of southern Africa?