General Knowledge Quiz 1105 (20 MCQs)

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1. In a lonely hearts advertisement, what does "GSOH" mean?
2. What is another term for an "ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms" ?
3. Interference patterns produced when an opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern, are called what?
4. Most of which of these games is spent handling "tiles" ?
5. Who directed Heath Ledger's last film?
6. To play craps, players need an appropriately marked up board, chips and what else?
7. Between 1987 and 2006, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, Mahendra Chaudhry, Laisenia Qarase, Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, George Speight and Ratu Josefa Iloilo were involved in the politics of which country?
8. Rugby union was included in 4 Olympic Games between 1900 and 1924. Which team won the most gold medals for it in that period?
9. Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the lira as its basic currency unit?
10. Which is another name for the game variously called taca taca, kicker, baby-foot, langirt and futillo?
11. In the 1880s Georges Seurat and Paul Signac pioneered what meticulous and precise method of painting?
12. What are the traditional words used to vote in the British House of Lords?
13. Since the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour Masters 1000 was introduced in 1990 until 2021 which former world number 1 held the record for the most titles, with 36?
14. "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise" is the motto of which daily newspaper?
15. Who was the first Pope to be born in the 20th century?
16. Which of these is a play based on the story of Thomas More, the 16th-century Chancellor of England, by Robert Bolt?
17. The line "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" is spoken by which Shakespearean character?
18. Where did an icthyosaurus live?
19. Which of these was a singer and band leader who died at the Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia on 25 December 2006 from congestive heart failure resulting from complications of pneumonia?
20. What is the name of the island of land in the East End of London that is bounded on three sides by one of the largest meanders in the River Thames, with the West India Docks to the north?