General Knowledge Quiz 116 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which town in Lincolnshire, UK, is the birthplace of Margaret Thatcher, and has connections with Isaac Newton, Nicholas Parsons and Richard Todd?
2. What colour is lapis lazuli?
3. In what board game do players compete to acquire wealth through buying, renting, and trading properties, with the object of bankrupting the other players?
4. A NICAD battery has a nickel anode and a cathode made of what?
5. Sweyn Forkbeard rebelled against his father, who was killed in 985 or 986 in the battles with his son, and took over rule of what kingdom?
6. What reason did the Republic of Maldives give for withdrawing from the Commonwealth of Nations in 2016?
7. By what name is Italian sculptor and painter Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi better known?
8. A matrix can also be described as a what?
9. Which American singer-songwriter's debut album won Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) at the 1981 Grammy Awards, and who also received an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his work with film music?
10. What is the name of the architectural style which marks some ancient and mediaeval structures, one notable one being the columns of the Parthenon?
11. Which of these cars hasn't changed its basic shape and concept throughout its evolution and has been made continuously from 1963 into the 21st century?
12. Which cartoonist, whose caricatures of public figures were published in "Private Eye" in the 1960s and 1970s, worked for Pink Floyd on "The Wall" album (1979) and movie (1982)?
13. Mexican, bow and shock can be all be types of what?
14. Born in Australia in 1898, Walter Lindrum was one of the greatest practitioners of what sport?
15. Professional sidekick Dick Grayson is better known as who?
16. Which adapted international athletic competition started to become particularly popular in the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic?
17. Which of these words is NOT a contraction?
18. Where is a lammergeier most likely to be found?
19. Where in the human body is a meniscus found?
20. Scarpia is a character in which opera?