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General Knowledge Quiz 221 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is an epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe as General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is captured and enslaved and rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murder of his family and his Emperor that won five Academy Awards in 2000?
2. Who first crossed the Atlantic non-stop by air on 14 June 1919 in a Vickers Vimy from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland?
3. Where was playwright Samuel Beckett born?
4. St George's Channel separates mainland Britain from where?
5. A guava is a type of what?
6. What reptile, of which there are two living species, the American and the Chinese, got its name from the Spanish for lizard?
7. From 1926 to 1930 Jelly Roll Morton led which jazz band?
8. The global population of the Teviot flathead galaxias-the rarest New Zealand native freshwater fish and one of the rarest freshwater fish in the world-is found only in an area of less than a hectare where in New Zealand?
9. Which of these has the shortest wavelength?
10. Petroglyphic complexes in the Mongolian Altai mountains include three rock art sites which have been dated to about when?
11. What is the basic background for American fantasy comedy television series, "The Good Place" ?
12. Sleepers are used to support what?
13. On 17 May 1928 the Royal Flying Doctor Service made its first official flight in what country?
14. Which of these is a type of waterfowl with a distinctive extensive pouch attached to the lower mandible?
15. Elizabeth II and which other head of state opened the Channel Tunnel railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (UK) with Coquelles (France) beneath the Channel/La Manche?
16. Which noted waterfall falls from the edge of the Auyán-tepui mountain in the Canaima National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Gran Sabana region of Bolívar State in Venezuela?
17. Chicago is known as what?
18. The volcano Vesuvius looks down on what?
19. The first European landfall was made on the continent of Australia by Willem Janszoon in what year?
20. Which is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales?
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