General Knowledge Quiz 137 (20 MCQs)

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1. Ravel's "Bolero", pop music riffs and (often) suspense music in film soundtracks are examples of what?
2. What do the Imaginarium Studios specialise in?
3. Which of these is a unit of area?
4. What are bullion knot, lazy daisy and whipped spider web?
5. What is the next in this series:Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter ..... ?
6. Who wrote the music for the award-winning 1961 musical film for which Steven Spielberg directed a re-make in 2021?
7. Whose fictionalised account of a interview by Harold Bloom with Benzion Netanyahu and his family, including his son, Benjamin Netanyahu, at an upstate New York college in the late 1950s won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for fiction?
8. In 1950 a competition was held to build St Michael's Cathedral, Coventry, UK, after it was destroyed in WWII, and was won by which architect?
9. Who wrote the music for the musical "Mamma Mia!" ?
10. In 1980, Nikolai Andrianov (USSR/RUS) broke the record for being awarded the most Olympic medals (15) ever. What was his sport?
11. What instruments were used by the Haydn Quartet one of the most popular recording quartets, originally formed in 1896?
12. Which country launched an attack against the US naval base at Pearl Harbour in 1941?
13. What animals are the only characters in a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber?
14. In Norway, in December 2010, it was announced that 2, 000 of what animal had been fitted wth reflective collars or tags to reduce the chances of their being hit by cars?
15. Which country on the east coast of the Bay of Bengal is bordered by China, Laos, Thailand, India and Bangladesh?
16. What was the codename for the invasion of Sicily by the allied forces in World War II?
17. How many days are there in the last three months of the Western calendar year?
18. Where is TAB a part of the betting scene?
19. What character was played by Bill Cosby in his long running TV series?
20. Who is most likely to wear a kilt?