General Knowledge Quiz 254 (20 MCQs)

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1. The highest measured waterfall in North America, among the highest 7 in the world, is in California and is known as what?
2. Who was the magistrate in Athens who codified its laws around 600 BC?
3. What is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2, 430 metres (7, 970 ft) above sea level, on a ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru?
4. With what revolutionary movement was the Chinese physician, writer, philosopher and calligrapher Sun Yat-sen associated at the time of his death in 1925?
5. Which of these was born first?
6. The Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, is also partly in which of these states?
7. Who voices the two characters in "Beavis and Butthead" in the series 1993-97, 2011?
8. In what language was the chivalric romance "Primaleon of Greece" (published 1516) written?
9. Who was the Greek god of medicine who brought dead people back to life, angering Zeus who killed him with a thunderbolt?
10. Wealthy Quaker Richard Tapper Cadbury, a linen and silk draper, had a son John who founded a business in what?
11. What is the only known example of the plant species Lapageria?
12. What can the discriminant equation be used for in relation to a quadratic or cubic equation?
13. What is a young swan called?
14. When are the events surrounding the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin supposed to have taken place?
15. Which author was born Jozef Korzeioloski in Ukrainian Poland in 1857, joined the French merchant marine, served on French and British ships, and became a naturalised British subject in 1886?
16. Who played Mrs Robinson in the 1967 film "The Graduate" ?
17. What is the generic name for all of the greater festivals of the Christian Church?
18. Chitose, Kisarazu, Ashiya and Komatsu are popular Japanese what?
19. A non-SI unit of radioactivity is named after ..... ?
20. Publicity for which 1998 film reads: "Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged, but to the wrong people." ?