General Knowledge Quiz 129 (20 MCQs)

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1. What were Ronnie Hazlehurst and Ron Grainer in connection with the UK TV series, respectively, "Only Fools and Horses" and "The Prisoner" ?
2. Who, in 1901, won the Triple Crown in Major League baseball?
3. Why was the indie film "Donnie Darko" hardly publicised on its general theatrical release In America in October 2001?
4. Where, 25 miles West of Knoxville, Tennessee, was an Atomic Bomb Research Station set up in 1942?
5. Where was the first Women's World Cup, at that time called Women's World Championship, held?
6. In 2010, the International Cricket Council turned down a nomination for Vice President from ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard in favour of one from Alan Isaac, who was from which country?
7. When his Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, died on 9 April 2021, what happened to his title as Duke?
8. Which family includes Louis, a television journalist, his father Paul, a travel writer and novelist, his elder brother Marcel, a writer and television presenter and his cousin Justin, an American actor?
9. Wisdom teeth appear when?
10. The eldest daughter in the US TV show "Medium" (2005-2011) starred also as one of the central characters in which 2002 mainstream TV show?
11. Who, in 1831, first demonstrated that the motion of a conductor in a magnetic field generates an electric current?
12. Where did the 1976 Summer Olympics take place?
13. How old was Kurt Cobain when he died?
14. Where were the political movers known as bolsheviks and mensheviks active?
15. Players of the game of Nine Men's Morris, or mills or merels, need what?
16. Baron Scarpia, the villain of Puccini's opera "Tosca", has a striking resemblance to a real-life Italian baron of flexible loyalties and vicious tastes named Gherardo Curci (nicknamed Sciarpa) as well as to an infamous judge from where?
17. In 2013 actress Angelina Jolie very publicly did what?
18. In athletics, what name is used for the preliminary races that precede quarter-finals or semi-finals?
19. How can the land to the west of the Gulf of California be described?
20. Phil Mickelson is a professional in what sport?