General Knowledge Quiz 1203 (20 MCQs)

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1. New Yorkers Sarah Michelson, Sara Mearns and Pam Tanowitz are known for their work in what?
2. A "moog" was what type of instrument?
3. Which book about a castaway was written by Daniel Defoe?
4. Which of these was the last to make its debut on British TV?
5. Which state in the USA is equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, containing both the geographic centre of the 48 contiguous USA states and the geodetic centre of North America?
6. The 2009 Super Bowl, played at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, was between the Arizona Cardinals and what other team?
7. Stanley Matthews typically played which position for the English football team?
8. When and where was the subsequently-named "Liberty Bell" hung in America?
9. Mahé Drysdale, Rebecca Scown, Juliette Haigh, Hamish Bond, Eric Murray, Pete Reed, Andrew Triggs Hodge, Ondrej Synek and Alan Campbell have been international competitors in which sport?
10. The traditional boomerang is made out of what?
11. In the Rio 2016 Summer Paralympics, the Olympic torch was toured through 5 Brazilian cities plus where else before creating the Olympic Flame?
12. Which 600-seat opera house was built in Sussex by John Christie in 1934 as a tribute and memorial to his wife, Audrey Mildmay?
13. What "Bridge" is the name of a home to a London football team and was the venue for precursor battle to the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
14. Who dies at the end of Shakespeare's tragedy "Troilus and Cressida" ?
15. What is the main criterion for calling a fruit a "drupe" ?
16. Whose last words were reputedly "My neck is very slender" ?
17. On the Christian calendar, what name is given to the first Sunday after Easter?
18. Disputes between which two countries are called "Intifada", one uprising in which began in 1987, another in 2000 and another in 2005?
19. What is the name for the lowest point of a sound wave?
20. "Monticello" was the mansion owned by which US president?