General Knowledge Quiz 1130 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which English civil engineer's most famous project was the construction of Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London?
2. Which country would you go to in order to find the main headwaters of the Amazon River?
3. Which of these countries has the largest land area?
4. Christian Bale was born in what country?
5. Which of these lies between the Andes and the Chilean Coast Range?
6. Which of these flags does not have stars on it?
7. Which film, directed by David Lean and starring John Mills, opens with an escaped convict grabbing hold of a boy in a graveyard?
8. Which of these is a bone in the wrist?
9. Which of these was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, and author of the largest-selling economics textbook of all time: "Economics:An Introductory Analysis", first published in 1948, that explained the principles of Keynesian economics?
10. The 1966 anthology of caricatures "World of Hirschfeld" includes a drawing called "Nina's Revenge" which contains what?
11. What was the "job" referred to in the UK TV series "No Job For a Lady" (1990-92 ), in which Dame Penelope Keith starred with Mark Kingston and Nigel Humphreys?
12. Where would a tympanum, anvil and hammer be found together?
13. Mary Quant became famous in the 1960s for designing what?
14. What is unusual about the flag of Nepal?
15. Hunchun in China has what trading advantage?
16. Celadon is a shade of what colour?
17. In what year did a woman first qualify and race in the Indianapolis 500?
18. Where does the mite that causes demodicosis lodge in the mammal it affects?
19. In the Bible, who was the apostle chosen by the remaining 11 to replace Judas Iscariot following his betrayal of Jesus and suicide?
20. The peacock belongs to which family of birds?