General Knowledge Quiz 235 (20 MCQs)

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1. With which country do you associate the didgeridoo?
2. Who played "Jemima" in the then new musical "Cats" in 1981, and later starred in more of Lloyd Webber's work, with two roles written for her:in the mass "Requiem" , and "Christine DaaΓ©" in "The Phantom of the Opera" ?
3. Who presided over the 1976 Olympic Games in Canada?
4. People of the Yazidi faith live mainly where?
5. In his influential work "De Magnete", Dr William Gilbert, Queen Elizabeth I of England's personal physician towards the end, recorded an experimental approach to scientific discovery in fields including ..... ?
6. In the Okie Noodling Tournament, first contested in 2003, what do participants compete to do?
7. According to Britain's Sea Fish Industry Authority, what is the name for a young pilchard?
8. What advance in the design of the bicycle was introduced in 1885?
9. Which US president started and pursued the hardline rivalry after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, usually called the Cold War?
10. Carnotite is a source of what?
11. Which French revolutionary, who was instrumental in the death of the King and the establishment of the Republic, was guillotined in 1794?
12. Which ocean or sea is on the coast of Paraguay?
13. The "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" signed into law in the US state of Arizona on 23 April 2010 to take effect on 28 July 2010, concerns what?
14. World War I took place mostly on what continent between 1914 and 1918?
15. Which one of these has no part to play in the ring at a bull fight?
16. Which German writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, later expatriated from Germany and becoming an American citizen, was the author of works including "Buddenbrooks", "Mario and the Magician" and "The Magic Mountain" ?
17. Who is credited with finding the cross used by Jesus and the remains of the Three Wise Men?
18. Freetown is the capital city of which country?
19. The first electric what were installed in 1914 in Ohio, USA?
20. What happened when Sigurd, or Siegfried, according to the Eddic poem FΓ‘fnismΓ‘l, killed the dragon Fafnir and tasted its heart's blood?