General Knowledge Quiz 255 (20 MCQs)

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1. What singing game show that premiered on Fox in July 2007 and was confirmed as cancelled in August 2009 where contestants competed to win one million dollars by correctly recalling song lyrics from a variety of genres was hosted by Wayne Brady?
2. Which of these is a type of moth?
3. In what sport is the item which is played by the contestants usually 1 inch (25 mm) thick, 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and in the adult size weighs 3 lb (1.3-1.5 kg)?
4. What problem did Leonardo Bonacci, nicknamed Fibonacci, quote as a demonstration in his 1202 book explaining the mathematical sequence also known as the Golden Ratio?
5. Which nation was the first to put a man-made object on the moon?
6. Who discovered the moons of Saturn called Mimas and Enceladus between 1781 and 1789?
7. What modern-day country was ruled between 1902 and 1964 by Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud and his son, Emir Saud?
8. A proposal put forward in the 1970s that Earth and its biological systems are self-regulating is known as what?
9. Canadian-born actress and producer Gladys Smith co-founded which influential entertainment studio?
10. Which of these is a deciduous tree with small cones and needle like leaves that is native to the Swiss Alps?
11. The Yom Kippur War in 1973 was between Israel and which other forces?
12. Which is a character in the Oberammergau Passion Play?
13. Carrageen, used in cosmetics and foods is a type of what?
14. The engines used in Formula One between 1960 and 1990 by Motor Racing Developments Ltd (known as Brabham) were Coventry-Climax, Cosworth DFV, Alfa Romeo, BMW, Yamaha, Judd and which other?
15. What do sarcococca, hamamelis, and mahonia have in common?
16. Which of these is a book that was the subject of a British obscenity trial in 1960?
17. Upon whom did Pope Leo X confer the title "Defender of the Faith" in 1521?
18. Where are the sites of the elaborately planned and sophisticated 4th and 3rd millennia BCE urban settlements of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro?
19. A series of landforms clustered across 97, 125 hectares of southern China, with weathered shapes including tower, pinnacle, cone, natural bridges, sinkholes, gorges and cave systems, is known as what?
20. She started in "Hair", created the roles of Eva Peron in "Evita" and Grizabella in "Cats", and is commonly called the First Lady of British Musical Theatre. Who is she?