General Knowledge Quiz 1187 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these songs is from "Kiss Me Kate" ?
2. Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team between 1914 and 1919?
3. A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray and Robert Parr ere all pseudonyms of which American author?
4. Where is the Afar Triple Junction, or Afro-Arabian Rift System?
5. Why did 66 nations, including the United States, Canada, West Germany and Japan, boycott the 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow?
6. What does MIX in Roman numerals mean?
7. Rosehill racecourse is in which Australian city?
8. Where do quolls have their homes?
9. What is "Dutch Elm Disease" ?
10. What was one avenue the Greek organisers of the 1896 Olympics used to fund the costs and finish or build the last of the venues?
11. In 800 CE, Charlemagne became the first what in the West since the 5th century CE?
12. What was Melanie Chisholm's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
13. Who wrote the 1998 novel "About A Boy" ?
14. Which of these pieces of music features in the opera "Carmen" by Georges Bizet?
15. What is a leotard?
16. A series of political protests against the government in Thailand in 2010 were organised by a group calling themselves what?
17. Which facility, opened in England in sections between 1774 and 1790 and a major asset for a while to industrialising Britain, forms part of the background for the works "His Dark Materials Trilogy" (by Philip Pullman) and "The Wind in the Willows" (by Kenneth Grahame)?
18. During the 1924 Olympic Games relations between the teams representing Italy and France in fencing boiled over into a duel between two of their ancillary personnel, over what?
19. Where are gaiters usually worn?
20. Where and what is Mosi-oa-Tunya?