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General Knowledge Quiz 275 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which group from New York City released an eponymous album in 1973 with the personnel of David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain, Arthur "Killer" Kane, Jerry Nolan and Johnny Thunders?
2. Someone facing up to a difficult situation is said to take what animal "by the horns" ?
3. What is the astronomical body 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, discovered in 1788?
4. The 2018 US police procedural TV series "Instinct" has what aspect unusual for a US TV series of this kind?
5. Who was the first President of Czechoslovakia?
6. Which 2020 UK TV mini-series was adapted from a 1993 novel by Vikram Seth?
7. The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour was a gift in 1886 to the USA by whom?
8. What is the name of the Greek airline flag-carrier?
9. In which state of Australia would you find the area known as the Wheatbelt?
10. A computer game first released in 1993 and drawing inspiration from Rube Goldberg devices, or Heath Robinson or Storm P thinking, is what?
11. Where is the small volcanic island of Surtsey?
12. If you travelled downstream from the Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, which country would you be in when you reached the ocean?
13. Cobol, Basic and Fortran are all types of what?
14. According to the nursery rhyme, who was Humpty Dumpty?
15. When did the first entry for acronyms appear in the Oxford English Dictionary?
16. A terrorist attack was launched on New York that resulted in the destruction of the Twin Towers on which day in 2001?
17. The Battle of Ghuznee in 1839 took place between the armies of Great Britain and which other country?
18. What nickname was given to Ana Cumpănaş, also known as Anna Sage, who betrayed John Dillinger to the police when he attended the Biograph Theater in Chicago?
19. What links two US TV films, one about a teen with muscular dystrophy in a state nursing home, and one about a Canadian super-gun designer involved with Project Babylon, with a US TV series adapted from a UK work by Michael Dobbs?
20. The Zocchihedron die, particularly designed to handle percentage rolls e.g. in role-playing games, has how many faces?
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