General Knowledge Quiz 181 (20 MCQs)

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1. Antananarivo is the capital of which country?
2. The top five longest entries in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013 were "red", "put", "run", "be" and which other?
3. Which army besieged Paris from 18 September 1870 for 4 months?
4. The British version of the TV series "The Office", is set where?
5. When was "The Great Fire of Rome" that spread quickly and burned for five and a half days
6. A strong smell of what was reported by players at the 2023 US Open?
7. According to a series of novels published by Random House in the 1960s, what is the full name of Barbie, the doll manufactured by Mattel, Inc. launched in March 1959?
8. In ancient Rome, what was the title of a magistrate who was next in importance to a consul?
9. Which author, who wrote "Portrait Of A Lady", "The American" and "Roderick Hudson", was born in New York in 1843 and became a naturalised Englishman in 1915?
10. What is another name for the plant known as "deadly nightshade" ?
11. Which of these is a fortified wine that comes from the valley of the river Douro in Portugal?
12. What weight is the ball used in international shotput competition?
13. In scrabble, which of these letters has the highest value?
14. What is the name for an area used for mooring boats?
15. Who recorded the British song writer Florrie Palmer's "9 to 5", or "Morning Train", in 1980
16. The rumba was originally danced where?
17. Which film starring Reese Witherspoon had the same title as a hit by Lynyrd Skynyrd?
18. What part of the body is affected by conjunctivitis?
19. What fully-fledged fictional language, which has a number of typologically uncommon features, was deliberately designed to be "non-human" by Marc Okrand?
20. Initially family pressure sent Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), later seen as among the most important and influential composers of the 20th century, to study what?