General Knowledge Quiz 1200 (20 MCQs)

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1. What name was adopted in 1957 by London's Sadler's Wells Ballet Company?
2. Why were the Far Eastern Games discontinued after 1934?
3. Where is Guantanamo Bay?
4. What is the science that deals with the properties, composition, and structure of elements and compounds, the transformations they undergo, and the energy that is released or absorbed during these processes?
5. What was the first film to be directed by the son of veteran British director Ken Loach?
6. Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, can be described as what?
7. What type of race is "the Madison" ?
8. In 2010, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization announced that it expected to make a formal declaration in 2011 of the global eradication of "Rinderpest" . What does Rinderpest attack, mostly?
9. For what did speculative grammarians search?
10. In the nursery rhyme, who was quite contrary and had an unusual garden?
11. Which country declared independence from Britain unilaterally in August 1963, joined the Federation of Malaysia in September along with Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak, but left two years later, officially gaining sovereignty on 9 August 1965?
12. Which of these is not one of The Rhinemaidens, three water-nymphs who appear in Richard Wagner's opera cycle "Der Ring Des Nibelungen" ?
13. A 1999 James Bond film was entitled "The World is not ..... '' what?
14. Following the 1997 return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China to become a special administrative region, Macau was returned to become its second special administrative region. When was that?
15. What TV role played by Jodie Whitaker regenerated in 2022 into the same character but played by another actor?
16. Which sport is played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of ice, whereby teams take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones towards the "house" while two sweepers with brooms accompany each one to help direct them to their resting place?
17. Which book attributed to Thomas Cranmer and published around 1549 is still in print?
18. Which of these would be least useful to thicken liquid in cooking?
19. What was the nickname of the Chevalier Raoul, a character in a tale by Perrault in 1697, who murdered successive wives?
20. What is the name used in North America for a man who makes his living by felling trees?