General Knowledge Quiz 1174 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is unusual about the dwelling of Baba Yaga, a fearsome character in Slavic folklore?
2. Which of these words came into English from a play by a Czechoslovakian?
3. What is sometimes known as the "sport of kings" ?
4. Who created the comic strip "Garfield" ?
5. Which of these landlocked countries nevertheless has a navy?
6. Which small island in the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb at the south end of the Red Sea was administered as part of Aden during British occupation until 1967, when it was given to the Democratic People's Republic of Yemen?
7. Which 1953 film, starring Lesley Caron and Mel Ferrer and scored by Academy Award winner BronisΕ‚aw Kaper, was based on a Paul Gallico short story titled "The Seven Souls of Clement O'Reilly" ?
8. On air, in September 2010, David Letterman asked whom during an interview for $ US1 million for the use of a section of his programme in a film?
9. In the SI system, what is the basic unit for the measurement of electric current?
10. Which album by Lily Allen contained the tracks "The Fear", "Not Fair" and "22" ?
11. These are the last lines of which play: "All right. Not guilty." "We're ready." "All right gentlemen. Bring your coats and come along."
12. According to the English nursery rhyme, what did the Grand Old Duke of York have?
13. What range of hills runs 50 miles from the Worcestershire border through Gloucestershire to the Avon?
14. In 1993, Eritrea became independent from which country?
15. Futuna and Alofi are the two islands of what group?
16. Which of these is one of the twelve boroughs of Berlin?
17. Who entitled his autobiography "Memoirs of a Professional Cad" ?
18. Where is Davos?
19. The first women's Olympic competition for gymnastics, at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, involved only which type of activity?
20. Which of these is the Norse god of thunder?