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General Knowledge Quiz 262 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is the name of the TV series that spawned a film made in 2008?
2. Which of these is a starchy, tuberous crop?
3. What was the name of the first of the space shuttles that was used only for testing purposes?
4. The subphylum Chelicerata is one of the major subdivisions of the phylum Arthropoda; it contains sea spiders and arachnids (including scorpions, spiders, and potentially horseshoe crabs). Which was the first chelicerate to have its genome fully sequenced?
5. Where is the Suakin Trough?
6. Which country has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund?
7. Who wrote the plays "Waiting For Godot", "Endgame", "Play", "Happy Days" and "Krapp's Last Tape" ?
8. Which would South African Christiaan Barnard usually pick up in the course of the work for which he was best known in the second half of the 20th century?
9. Which popular Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist, whose first album "Paddy on the Road" was recorded with Dominic Behan (brother of Brendan) in 1969, was named "Ireland's greatest living musician" in RTÉ's People of the Year Awards in 2007?
10. Whose lifetime total of 714 home runs was a record in Major League Baseball for 39 years, until 1974?
11. The Treaty of Versailles signed in 1871 marked another step in what for the signatories?
12. What sport is featured in the play "Foreskin's Lament" by Greg McGee?
13. The Alderney, Blaarkop, East Anatolian Red, Guernsey, Icelandic and Swedish Friesian are all types of what?
14. What is the name of a free improvisatory passage inserted near the end of a composition to create a feeling of suspense before the final cadence?
15. Where is a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings consisting primarily of realistic images of large animals?
16. What rock band played together for the first time in over 20 years at the London Live Eight Concert in 2005?
17. What does the Alvarado Score measure?
18. Which of these is a small member of the lute family, in use in Europe during the Renaissance?
19. Countries which in the 19th century permanently abolished the death penalty were the Roman Republic (1849), Venezuela (1854), San Marino (1865), and which other?
20. Which Walt Disney animated feature film bombed when it was first released in 1940, only eventually reaching profit in 1945?
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