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General Knowledge Quiz 280 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the name for the movement formed by John Nelson Darby and colleagues in the 1830s?
2. Which of these names is associated with Jamie Oliver?
3. Which of these was one of the targets of "Operation Chastise" carried out by the British in 1943 during World War II?
4. The president of which country was killed in a plane crash near Smolensk airport in April 2010?
5. What is the name for discoveries in detective novels that are put there to mislead the reader?
6. Who painted "Number 5" in 1948?
7. The malted herb-flavoured grain-based spirit mixed from a whisky-like distillate called malt wine and other distillates exclusively in Holland or Belgium, is named for what plant?
8. Who was the female co-star with Elvis Presley in the film "Viva Las Vegas" ?
9. What is an iamb?
10. The site of what modern landmark residence in London, UK, was at one time owned by King Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, the monks of Westminster Abbey, King Henry VIII, Sir William Blake and Lord Goring?
11. Which of these volcanoes was the last to show major activity?
12. In music, what word means "to be performed without any break between-smooth and sustained" ?
13. Before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, teams from which country caused a scandal by posing for a pre-Olympic newspaper advertisement pulling back the skin on either side of their eyes, to mimic the typical Asian?
14. Where are the Islay malt whisky distilleries?
15. An axolotl is the larva or early form of what?
16. Sigmund Freud coined the term Oedipus complex to describe the tendency for a male to want to kill his father and marry his mother. What did he call the female equivalent (of a female being attached to her father and wishing to replace her mother)?
17. Who was responsible for an event on 30 July 1749, which crystallised a long-standing persecution of a people, the effects of which continue in Europe?
18. What is the capital of the US state of California?
19. What are spiracles used for?
20. Which pantomime is about the Lord Mayor of London?
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