General Knowledge Quiz 134 (20 MCQs)

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1. What term was popularized in the books "The Gutenberg Galaxy:The Making of Typographic Man" (1962) and "Understanding Media" (1964) by Marshall McLuhan to describe how the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time has heightened human awareness of responsibility?
2. What are setts, lodges, nides and forms?
3. The American Landrace, Australian Yorkshire, British Landrace, Bulgarian White, Gascon, Hereford, Krskopolje, Mangalitsa, Moody Woody, Red Wattle, Tamworth and Wuzishan are all types of what?
4. When Coubertin moved to establish a revived and international Olympic Games at the end of the 19th century his work had forerunners in the UK and in Greece and France. When was the earliest in the UK and what was it called?
5. Which of these was engaged in the ground-breaking study and understanding of genetics?
6. What is the chemical symbol for Helium?
7. What becomes less dense as it solidifies?
8. Where are vast grassland plains known as the Pampas?
9. Which is the main language spoken by the Suriani, a minority religious group in the Turkey-Syria-Iraq area?
10. What is the stage name of Alecia Beth Moore, whose hits include "There You Go", "Stupid Girls", "Who Knew", "Funhouse"and "So What" ?
11. In 1983 the official length of one metre was established as what?
12. What links these countries:Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, the Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, the Maldives, Indonesia and Kiribati?
13. Novosibirsk, the third most populous city in its country, is where?
14. How many US states share a land border with the state of Maine?
15. Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot was the "real" name of which Batman villain?
16. What is Spike Milligan's first name?
17. From 1946 to 1970, the Jules Rimet Trophy was awarded to the winner of what competition?
18. What is a doppelgΓ€nger?
19. Andy White and Jimmy Nicol were both what?
20. What does the title of the romantic musical '52Hz, I Love You' refer to?