General Knowledge Quiz 190 (20 MCQs)

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1. For bagpipes what is the pipe in which the notes are formed?
2. The satirical 2014 UK TV series "W1A" is a follow-up to which other series?
3. Hearing sound when no external sound is present, possibly a ringing, clicking, hiss, sizzle or roar, is described as what?
4. In 2009, when it was suggested that doctors in the state of Queensland, Australia, were losing patients due to their shifts of 80 hours per week, what did Queensland health officials suggest that doctors do about it?
5. Who wrote "The Sheep Pig", that was made into the film "Babe" ?
6. In mid August 2017 the yachts Bagheera and the Snow Dragon II, with a crew of 10 and a dog called Fukumi, sailed on what expedition?
7. Which of these is a type of generator of electric current in which mechanical energy is converted to electrical energy?
8. Development of the iron lung with which Drinker and Shaw's names are associated, and which was used to aid polio victims, was first funded by which body?
9. What marked the 1895 game in Canada between the Halifax Stanleys and Dartmouth Jubilees hockey teams?
10. Where is the Ocucaje Desert?
11. Which 2011 film, starring Emma Watson, Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Dominic Cooper, Julia Ormond, Derek Jacobi, Michael Kitchen and Judi Dench, was Watson's first film released after the Harry Potter series?
12. Which of these is a fictional character co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger which first appeared in Detective Comics in May 1939?
13. In musical notation, what word means "higher in pitch by a semitone" ?
14. What is the series "yan ..... giggot" most likely to be?
15. Which of these is closest to a galette?
16. Which German-born chemist split the uranium atom in 1939 and won the Nobel prize in 1944?
17. What song is on the soundtrack of the 2009 film "Inglourious Basterds" at the start of the section called "Final Chapter:Revenge of the Giant Face" ?
18. Plain unglazed pottery is often termed as what?
19. By what name was Dino Paul Proscetti better known?
20. The Academy Award-winning song "Mona Lisa", written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the film "Captain Carey, U.S.A", was a 1950 hit for which artist?