General Knowledge Quiz 1125 (20 MCQs)

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1. The creator of TV personality Alan Partridge and the TV comedian who is creator of the "small-man-in-a-box", toured together in a country of continental Europe in which UK TV series?
2. At the end of the 20th century Macau was returned to China by which country?
3. Which British economist who advocated interventionist government policy died on 21 April 1946?
4. What colour does blue litmus paper turn when in contact with acid?
5. Who is the only person to receive 2 Oscars for the same role?
6. What is the medical description of the loss of hair from the head or body, sometimes to the extent of baldness?
7. The Sibe, or Xibu, people are some of the early and still present peoples of an area now known as what?
8. Which of these musical terms means the loudest?
9. What is the maximum number of players allowed on the field during a game of Rugby Sevens?
10. In early 2008, Yang Yun, an artistic gymnast who won two bronze medals at the 2000 Olympics, admitted on Chinese state-run television what fact about herself that interested the international press?
11. On 1 May 2010, where was a car bomb in a Nissan Pathfinder, which failed to ignite properly, disarmed with no casualties?
12. In 1997, who was appointed the first female US Secretary of State?
13. In Greek mythology, Croesus was known for what?
14. Which of these is NOT a "stem" ?
15. Which animal, exclusively carnivorous, mostly nocturnal, with eyeballs each the same size as its brain, lives only on the islands of south east Asia?
16. Angela Grisanti Vecchio, Stanley Zbornak, Clayton Hollingsworth and Salvadore Petrillo are characters in what US television series?
17. Which revered world figure celebrated his 95th birthday, in hospital, in July 2013?
18. Who became Roman emperor after the murder of Caligula, and, after the death of his wife, married his niece Agrippina, who poisoned him?
19. What is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies that consists mainly of psalms and is said at noon?
20. Cobol, Basic and Fortran are types of what?