General Knowledge Quiz 191 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these terms is applied to a humorous exaggerated imitation of an author, literary work, style, etc.?
2. Complete the title of this James Bond film: "Licence To ..... ''?
3. Rose and Jack were the lead characters in which film?
4. What infectious disease, occurring commonly in epidemics and caused by a virus, is characterised by blotchy rash preceded by a running nose and eyes, with a rise in temperature and lassitude?
5. Dick York, Dick Sargent, David White and Paul Lynde worked on what US TV serial which ran in the 1960s and 1970s?
6. All major television network evening schedules in the US were pre-empted on 16 January 1991 by coverage of what?
7. The fifteen elements with atomic numbers 89 to 103, which includes Actinium (Ac), Thorium (Th), Uranium (U), Neptunium (Np), Plutonium (Pu), Americium (Am), Californium (Cf), Einsteinium (Es) and Lawrencium (Lr), are known as what?
8. Colin Kaepernick, who became particularly well-known in 2016, is an American sportsman in what field?
9. Which American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who wrote "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "Buddy Bolden's Blues" claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902?
10. Which of these is a photographer, who captured (and help create) the high fashion and celebrity chic of 1960s 'Swinging London', who has been married to Rosemary Bramble, Catherine Deneuve, Marie Helvin and Catherine Dyer?
11. Which of these religions is the oldest to be recognised as an identifiable belief system?
12. How many volunteer hours were estimated to have supported the 2012 Summer Olympics?
13. The influential 1848 Cambridge University rules for football were drawn up with the participation of what groups?
14. Which of these is an English country dance?
15. Which 18th century playwright in which play, introduced the character of Mrs Malaprop who confuses words of similar sound?
16. Who was the star of the 1970s TV programme "Policewoman" ?
17. An ancient American two player war game called Patolli uses 5 or 6 dice together with how many game pieces and what shaped board?
18. In the human body which has more nerve endings?
19. Which US president was re-elected with the slogan "Don't change horses in mid-stream" ?
20. Where is the largest known land arthropod endemic?