General Knowledge Quiz 1153 (20 MCQs)

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1. Awarded since 1955, what is the name of the highest prize for competing films at the Cannes Film Festival?
2. In 1698 findings were published by the Royal Society, Britain, from the discovery near Llandeilo in Wales of fossils of what, the first recorded publication on the subject?
3. Which is a legal or statutory provision enacted in USA states between 1895 and 1910 to deny suffrage to African Americans but ensure suffrage to whites however poor and illiterate?
4. The term "Hispanic" means relating to what country?
5. What is a localised, blood-filled dilation of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel wall, which most commonly occurs in arteries at the base of the brain and in the aorta?
6. How many pairs of strings are there on a mandoline?
7. As what is Mikhail Baryshnikov internationally known?
8. Which novelist, born in Bombay in 1865, was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1907?
9. What are Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium and Caesium?
10. In November 2010, Genoveva Añonma and sisters Bilguissa Simporé and Salimata Simporé of which national women's soccer team were accused by newspapers in Nigeria and Cameroon of being men, not women?
11. What was the title of Walt Disney's first full length animated feature, released in 1937?
12. Haughton impact crater, at latitude 75 degrees north one of the most northerly impact craters known, is located where?
13. In Britain, what was the name given to the M4 Medium Tank that was produced by the US from World War II until the end of the Korean War?
14. Which Europeans have been proved to have reached North America before Christopher Columbus?
15. Who divorced her husband in 1978 after sixteen years of marriage, accusing him of years of severe spousal abuse and rampant drug addiction in her autobiography "I, Tina" (which was later adapted for the film "What's Love Got to Do with It"), and left semi-retirement in 2008 to embark on her "Tina!:50th Anniversary Tour" ?
16. Which of these was never the name of a prison in the USA?
17. The 1906 Treaty of Limits established the border between what country and a then-Dutch colony?
18. In 2009 it was announced that the Summer Olympic Games 2016 would be held where?
19. At the end of The War of 1812, the USA held Canadian territory near Detroit, and the British held parts of which Eastern state?
20. The TV series "Indian Summers", which premièred in 2015, deals with summers where?