General Knowledge Quiz 1112 (20 MCQs)

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1. The small eggs in Ahuahutle, also known as Mexican caviar, come from ..... ?
2. "Runaway Jury" (2003), a film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz, is an adaption of the book by which author?
3. Which animal appeared in the opening credits of the British TV series "Coronation Street" ?
4. Which of these is a British medal instituted in 1918 awarded to officers and warrant officers of the Royal Air Force?
5. Erik the Red from Norway founded the first successful Norse settlement on Greenland, and then his son Leif continued the tradition of exploring west and landed where?
6. What town 16 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, dominated by the Puritans in the 17th century, was famous for its witchcraft trials?
7. The national flag of which country consists of just a horizontal red stripe top and bottom, and a white stripe across the centre?
8. What is the name of the front, slightly raised area, of a saddle?
9. Which Belgian novelist wrote the "Maigret" stories between 1930 and 1935?
10. The theatres for which war included Odessa, Yevpatoriya, Sevastopol, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Kinburn?
11. What does the acronym "DOA" mean?
12. The London 2012 Summer Olympics was remarkable, among other things, for what?
13. Which series ended on UK television in 1989 after a 26 year run, and returned in 2005?
14. The Sunda Trench is the deepest part of which ocean?
15. A 2018 film, a US-German co-production produced by Indian Paintbrush and American Empirical Pictures, focuses on the fallout from which virus epidemic?
16. The phrase "eyeball to eyeball" uses a figure of speech known as what?
17. What in the human body shows the effect of melanin?
18. Since the 1960s there has been guerilla warfare, invasion and political instability in Cyprus because of disputes between people of which two nationalities?
19. Whose name is associated with the theorem that states that kinetic energy equals increased relativistic mass multiplied by the speed of light squared?
20. Tetanus is known by what other name?