General Knowledge Quiz 1111 (20 MCQs)

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1. What name is given to lung-breathing aquatic mammals such as whales, porpoises and dolphins?
2. The 2006 Grammy Award for the Best Musical Theatre recording were John Du Prez & Eric Idle (producers & composers) and Eric Idle (lyricist) for which show?
3. What is the name of the Jamaican netball team?
4. What game, created in 1904 by a quaker, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Phillips, when revised by Charles Darrow and others became one of the world's most played commercial board games?
5. The lyrics for which of these shows were not written by Stephen Sondheim?
6. What is the name of the hall in which meetings of the Salvation Army are held?
7. What is the currency of Bolivia?
8. In a 1967 film Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway portrayed which famous couple?
9. When hair rises in reaction to cold or shock, the appearance of the skin is sometimes described as what?
10. What was organised by Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother, France, to crush the Huguenots in August 1572 at the wedding of Henry of Navarre to Marguerite, sister of Charles IX, that resulted in the death of around 30, 000 people?
11. General Stanley Allen McChrystal, who had led all forces in Afghanistan since 15 June 2009, was relieved of his command on 23 June 2010 after he made unflattering remarks about US presidential administration officials in an article in which magazine?
12. "Yabba dabba doo" was a catch-phrase in which cartoon series?
13. Broadly, what is the setting for Samuel Beckett's play "Happy Days" ?
14. Martha Graham is known as a pioneer of what?
15. Which regatta is a challenge-driven series of match races between two yachts?
16. Who does the character Sancho Panza accompany?
17. Which large, non-venomous snake found in South America and on Trinidad grows to around 23 feet (7.0 m) long, and is olive green with black blotches with orange-yellow striping on either side of the head?
18. In various English-speaking countries, a flag is flown at what is said to be half mast as a mark of respect or mourning; in the U.S. (on land) the gesture is known as half what?
19. Billy Bowden is an official in what sport?
20. Which of these is the name for a textbook of magic spells?