General Knowledge Quiz 167 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where is the natural habitat of the Steller's sea cow?
2. Who won the gold medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and yelled "Oh my God!" at least 11 times in an aquatic centre that was stunned into silence over her surprise win?
3. Ludwig van Beethoven originally referred to his symphony No. 3 in E flat major (Op. 55) by what name?
4. Which prophetess, the daughter of Priam, King of Troy, was killed following the fall of Troy by Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra?
5. The foxtrot, a dance introduced to Great Britain around 1914, originated in which country?
6. Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim are most usually associated with which work?
7. For much of his career the artist Charles Frederick Goldie painted what subjects?
8. Kim Schmitz is better known as who?
9. What does the chemical symbol Fe stand for?
10. In 2015 Lacy Thibodeaux-Fields brought a lawsuit against the NFL, which sparked a wave of lawsuits alleging wage theft, unsafe working conditions, gender discrimination and harassment. What was the occupation of Thibodeaux-Fields and the other people suing?
11. In the history of thought concerning natural rights, who said "we are born for Justice, and that right is based, not upon opinions, but upon Nature" ?
12. There are several world championships in the field of woodchopping or wood cutting; which of these is celebrated as the first one?
13. A tower in Boughton, Chester, UK, was built to manufacture what, following a process pioneered by William Watts in the 1780s?
14. What treaty ended the Second Boer War?
15. Which of these animals has the most northerly natural habitat?
16. Which of these is Selma Bouvier's sister?
17. What is the full name of the organism found in abundance in the mammalian gut, and used as the host organism for the majority of work with recombinant DNA, in early commercial work the bacterium of choice for cloning and mass-producing new materials?
18. Who is a South African serial killer who committed the "ABC Murders" between 1994 and 1995, with over 30 victims?
19. The legend represented by the statue (now in the Vatican Museum) of a father and his twin sons being strangled by two great sea serpents, shows divine punishment for what according to Virgil?
20. Which family of 3 painters depicted the life of peasants, paintings in which devils and witches appear, and landscapes?