General Knowledge Quiz 208 (20 MCQs)

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1. The seven hills which lay within ancient Rome are the Capitoline, Caelian, Aventine, Palatine, Quirinal, Esquiline and which other hill?
2. What is the word for someone who arranges marriages?
3. Tierra del Fuego is volcanically active and sits at the tip of which tectonic plate?
4. A 1951 film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Kasey Rogers and Patricia Hitchcock was called "Strangers on a ..... what" ?
5. What was the main character trait of the Dickens character Mr Micawber?
6. Elliot Gould played whose father on the TV series Friends?
7. First appearing in English about the time of Shakespeare, what word means foppish, or, later, fabricated or tricked out?
8. Religious reformer Martin Luther famously burnt what letter?
9. Who is the subject of the 2021 biographical musical "A Wonderful World" ?
10. Which of these is the best hand to have in blackjack?
11. What initials refer to an improved quality of TV transmission?
12. Sergei Rachmaninoff was a virtuoso on which instrument?
13. On which continent would you find the mountain chains called Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental?
14. What is obtained from a sturgeon?
15. What does the film "Experimenter" (2015) centre on?
16. What is used in fireworks and flares to give off a brilliant red light?
17. What shape is a horseshoe crab's heart?
18. The Latin phrase "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" from Virgil's Aeneid is often translated into English as what?
19. From which Olympic Games were Germany and Japan excluded?
20. Which thoroughfare was closed and blanketed with flowers, trees and grass for 3 days in May 2010?