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General Knowledge Quiz 1145 (20 MCQs)

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1. By 2016 36% of Belize's land territory and 13% of Belize's marine territory falls under some form of official protected status; what, and when, was Belize's first gazetted sanctuary for wildlife protection?
2. Which team has played in 40 of the 105 Baseball World Series and won 27 World Series championships (between 1923 and 2009), the most of any Major League franchise?
3. What is the name for the point in the lunar orbit when the moon is nearest to the earth?
4. In America it is called a pacifier. What is it called in England?
5. If a chess player completes a move known as en passant, what pieces are involved?
6. When did the hero of wormworldsaga.com start Chapter 1 of his online adventures?
7. Which film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni showed the nature and emotions of the characters when Claudia (played by Monica Vitti) searched with her lover Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti) for her sister Anna (Lea Massar)?
8. What is a Chinese-inspired meat dumpling-style snack food that normally consists of a large ball of pork or other meat, cabbage and flavourings, encased in a wrapper similar to that of a more traditional dumpling?
9. The South American city of Fortaleza is on the northern coast of which country?
10. Known as a slek in Cambodia and found in various forms in many countries, it is what kind of musical instrument?
11. Which American actress became known for her role in the television series "Ally McBeal" and has appeared in several films, including "Charlie's Angels", "Kill Bill" and "Kung Fu Panda" ?
12. Where are the Aptian salt basins?
13. Who knighted Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealand chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics?
14. For the 1924 Summer Olympics the International Olympic Council (IOC) decided to ban what?
15. Which English poet, the author of "Adonis", "Prometheus Unbound" and "Ode to the West Wind", accidentally drowned off Leghorn, England, in 1822?
16. In 2008 there were 193 members of the United Nations. How many "nations" were represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
17. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index that shows how stocks of large, publicly-owned companies based in the USA have traded during a standard stock market trading session. How many company's stocks does it track?
18. What is the capital of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada?
19. The autobiography and, later, film "Gorillas in the Mist" dealt with work by whom?
20. Which of these is a wine?
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