General Knowledge Quiz 222 (20 MCQs)

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1. Author and cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel published his more than 60 books under what name?
2. Aethelred the Unroed, his son Edmund Ironside, and Cnut (or Canute) ruled England in succession in what year?
3. What term is used to describe a light bodied white wine with noticeable acidity that is balanced with enough fruit structure so as not to taste overly acidic?
4. How do Grand Prix motorcycles differ from motorcycles used in the Superbike World Championships and the Isle of Man TT races?
5. Throughout his early years in Indonesia, who was known to his playmates and at school as "Barry Soetoro" ?
6. In the late 1950s North Korea instituted a measure called the Ch'ŏllima ( "Flying Horse" ) movement, that was patterned on a similar movement in what country?
7. Which of these forms the boundary between Colombia and Venezuela?
8. Which of these planets is understood to have the smallest number of moons?
9. What treaty was signed in Paris in 1815 after the overthrow of Napoleon, whereby Alexander I of Russia, Francis II of Austria and Frederick William II of Prussia agreed to apply Christian principles to the government of their countries?
10. What is a frog before it matures?
11. Guitarist Brian Rankin is better known as who?
12. In 2002 Swiss International Air Lines Flight 850 landed on a runway in Germany in a way that caused the plane to be written off, for what reason?
13. The Serbian physicist, Mileva Marić, was married to which other scientist from 1903 to 1919?
14. Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major (Op. 68) is known as what?
15. Who wrote numerous short stories and plays and the novels "Of Human Bondage", "The Moon And Sixpence" and "Cakes And Ale" ?
16. Who was the third wife of Henry VIII?
17. What natural ice 1, 212.5 metre (3, 978 ft) long racing sled run in the Swiss town of St. Moritz, based on a river, was built in 1884?
18. What is a melisma?
19. One of the influential and well-known findings of physicist and musician Ernst Chladni (1756-1827) related to what?
20. What was the name of NASA spacecraft that were metallised balloon satellites acting as a passive reflector of microwave signals, the first successful launch of which was on 12 August 1960?