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General Knowledge Quiz 1186 (20 MCQs)

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1. What projectile is fired by a crossbow?
2. What was the surname of the 19th century English siblings Christina, a poet ("Goblin Market", "Prince's Progress" and "The Face of the Deep"), Dante, a pre-Raphaelite painter and poet ("The Blessed Diamond"), and William, also a pre-Raphaelite painter, who translated Dante's "Inferno" ?
3. In Germany, what would you expect to find at a bahnhof?
4. Which of these is the name of a gallows, last used in 1783, that used to stand near what is now Marble Arch in London, England?
5. What part of the caper is salted and pickled and used as a seasoning or garnish?
6. Edward I of England defeated whose forces at Falkirk on 22 July 1298?
7. What year did students at Oxford University organise the first university "athletic sports" meeting?
8. In 1998 120 countries agreed to set up what?
9. What was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, when the opening ceremony featured a mass demonstration of it, involving hundreds of adults and children?
10. What is the name of the adjustable shutters attached to a stage light to control the area of light it covers?
11. What dark short-legged fork-tailed bird, native to Madagascar, is known for having some species which are accomplished mimics and have a variety of alarm calls they appear to use to obtain food?
12. In physics what is the triple point?
13. What caused the ancient Egyptian temples of Dakka, Maharraqa, Wadi es-Sebua, Amada, and Derr to be dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere?
14. Until 1992, TASS was the official news agency for which organisation?
15. What is the principal diet of the osprey?
16. The highest mountain in North America is part of which mountain range?
17. When was the year of the Great Stink in London, UK, which gave the final impetus to provide funding to design and install London's sewage system?
18. Which of these was the last to win an Academy Award for Best Picture?
19. The Crimean Peninsula was known in antiquity as what, after the name of the early inhabitants?
20. Which of these is not one the four time zones that apply to the USA?
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