General Knowledge Quiz 229 (20 MCQs)

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1. In the two-player card game Piquet how are points scored?
2. "You had me at 'Hello'!" is a line from which film?
3. The Sirohi, Jamunapari (or Jamnapari), Beetal, and Barbari goats are native to which arid or semi-arid area?
4. The first Sovereign to reign over England, Scotland, and Ireland simultaneously was James who ruled in Scotland as James VI from the age of 18 months, and in England and Ireland as James I from 1603. He was the first King of England of which Royal House?
5. If someone holds their breath, chokes, or in some other way suspends external breathing, the term is what?
6. What was the main element in the UK television series "Last Tango in Halifax" ?
7. Which is the organisation founded in 1905 and known by the acronym FAI?
8. What width are the lines used to mark out a soccer, or football, pitch?
9. The Great Retreat on the eastern front of World War I in 1915, was by which country or allied forces?
10. The 38th episode of what series is infamous for using visual effects that, when transmitted in December 1997, caused seizures in 685 viewers so severe that they were taken to hospital?
11. Where is the resort now known as Villa Baviera?
12. In the USA, the Tav HaYosher is a certification mark offered to establishments that do what?
13. The five best-known dwarf planets in our solar system are Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and which other?
14. Kigali is the capital city of which country?
15. Which 19th century Englishman went to New Zealand to be a sheep farmer, visited Canada, and wrote "Erewhon", "A Psalm of Montreal" and "The Way of All Flesh" ?
16. Minamata disease, a neurological syndrome with symptoms including ataxia, numbness, general weakness, narrowing of vision and damage to hearing and speech, and even insanity, paralysis, coma and death within weeks, is caused by severe poisoning by what?
17. Which of these snakes is native to South America?
18. Which of these is the art of growing miniature trees, or woody plants shaped as trees?
19. Which of these might be found in the preparation and eating of poultry?
20. Neophobia is the fear of what?