General Knowledge Quiz 21 (20 MCQs)

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1. What play is seldom referred to in theatre by its own name but called instead "the Scottish play" ?
2. A galley, in relation to a book, is something to ..... ?
3. A hit single for Queen was "Radio ..... What?"
4. In the expression "spill the beans" what are the "beans" ?
5. Who was the first Englishman to lead an expedition to circumnavigate the earth by sea, and died of dysentery in the West Indies 16 years later?
6. Sangha Trinational park, home to important populations of forest elephants, critically endangered western lowland gorilla, and endangered chimpanzee, is on land in the territories of which three countries?
7. "Devil" was the pet wolf of which comic strip character?
8. In a 1545 book Roger Ascham invented a word, "toxophily", meaning what?
9. The autonomous region of Catalunya is in which country?
10. Which of these capital cities is not on the River Danube?
11. Grytviken is a settlement on which very cold island, or group of islands?
12. What is the English chalk plain crossed by the Avon that includes the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Amesbury?
13. Where would you find the mosques of El Hakim, Amru, Hason, El Maayyad and El Sunkur?
14. "Rolling Stone" described the song "Dancing On My Own" by which artist as the best of the 2010s?
15. The American fantasy drama television series featuring the characters Shadow Moon and Mr. Wednesday is based on and named after which book?
16. In "The Terminator", a 1984 film directed and co-written by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger had the famous line: "I'll be ..... '' what?
17. Which state of the USA has a 389-mile (626 km) international border with the states of Sonora and Baja California in Mexico, and despite being the largest fully landlocked US State by population is sometimes considered part of the West Coast region?
18. Marked what in Iceland?
19. Where was the 2008 Ryder Cup competition held?
20. Which 1998 film, directed by Peter Weir and starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich and Natascha McElhone, depicts a man discovering that his day to day life is actually a television show?