General Knowledge Quiz 141 (20 MCQs)

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1. What was Emma Bunton's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
2. To give or write a speech in praise of someone, would be to give what?
3. Which one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus is the only one found in the New World (i.e. Mexico, across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina)?
4. In cockney rhyming slang, what are "Apples and Pears" ?
5. Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the Pulitzer Prizes, made his fortune from what?
6. Which of these are two animated chipmunks created by The Walt Disney Company in 1943?
7. Which of these states is the furthest north?
8. Which winner of an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, a Tony and a Pulitzer, wrote musicals with Hart, Hammerstein and Sondheim?
9. The award from the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration in books for children and young people was given, in 1973, to the first what?
10. Who is a former British triple jumper who held the Olympic, Commonwealth, European and World records, and has held the world record in the event since 1995?
11. Which country rules over the Caracas island archipelago?
12. Who is George Dowd better known as?
13. "La Donna e Mobile" is an aria from which opera?
14. What lives in a "holt" ?
15. What was the nickname of the British army regiment called the "8th King's Royal Irish Hussars" ?
16. On a rifle shooting target, what is the name of the ring between the inner and the outer?
17. The Dungeness Crab, which first began to be fished commercially in the mid 19th century, takes its name from where?
18. Which of these is a Walt Disney film released in 1940 that features 8 segments set to classical music?
19. On 1 November 2010, the San Francisco Giants won the baseball World Series 4-1, their first World Series since 1954. Who did they defeat?
20. The Red River forms the border of Texas with what other area?