General Knowledge Quiz 1193 (20 MCQs)

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1. In the nursery rhyme beginning "Hey Diddle Diddle", who jumped over the moon?
2. Which female jazz singer died in December 2008?
3. What was the profession of World War I heroine Edith Cavell?
4. Which Winter Olympic Games was the last to have an outdoor speed skating rink?
5. What is the bone which links the wrist to the thumb's metacarpophalangeal joint?
6. Which of these might be played by a drummer?
7. What equipment is needed for a competition in welly wanging?
8. Which of these is a trumpet shaped, widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants of South American origin?
9. Harrison Ford was working as what before his first big break as a film actor?
10. Which musical by Elton John and Lee Hall, which revolves around a motherless boy who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes and is based on a 2000 film, opened in London's West End in 2005?
11. They began in 1990 playing at McManus's, their aunt's pub, went on to perform in the film "The Commitments", and played at the 1996 Summer Olympics as their international career began. Who were they?
12. In what epic does the character Enkidu first appear?
13. Which of these is a spin off from the TV series Grey's Anatomy?
14. In Egypt, what are "Dog Days" ?
15. Where was the 5, 421m (17, 785 ft) high Chacaltaya ski resort?
16. Celebrated archaeologists Frederick Bligh Bond and later Dr C.A. Ralegh Radford excavated at Glastonbury Abbey in the 20th century searching for what remains?
17. Which of these is the name of a panther in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" ?
18. In the 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption", the prisoner at the centre of the film has a poster of whom in his cell as he begins his sentence?
19. What is the official nickname of a particularly large capacity plane, built by Airbus and used to transport large dimension loads, from pieces of art to space station parts and whole helicopters?
20. As what was Eustace the Monk (c. 1170-1217) well-known?