General Knowledge Quiz 286 (20 MCQs)

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1. According to the nursery rhyme, who could "eat no fat", while his wife could "eat no lean" ?
2. What is the longest running live show of any type, still in its initial run?
3. A series of WADA investigations and a McLaren Investigation Agency report released in July 2016 alleged Russia was involved in widespread state-sponsored and prolonged doping violations in world sport; what was the period the McLaren report specified?
4. What is the nationality of Andrew Kelly and Richard Collett, who won the pairs championships, and Genevieve Baildon, who was women's singles champion, at the Bowls Classic Championships in Hong Kong in November 2009?
5. The first verse of which song begins "So you think you've lost your love? Well I saw her yesterday" ?
6. What PS4 and Xbox One game was developed in 2016 with the version title "Infinite Warfare" ?
7. What news source operating from the US Department of Defense that publishes daily newspapers for the US Armed Forces serving overseas was first published in November 1861, during the American Civil War?
8. What is unusual about Rockall, a small island in the Atlantic Ocean?
9. Which king of England was nicknamed Rufus?
10. Leeks are most closely related to which of these?
11. What is a petaflop?
12. The Basques are native people of France and which other neighbouring country?
13. Who held the record for the number of Grand Slam tennis tournaments before it was beaten by Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2009?
14. What is a feature of the Japanese art known as kintsugi?
15. The richly decorated and ornate multi-storey Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opened in 1919 as a theatre, and was renovated and converted in 2000 to what?
16. Which of these buildings used to be a Paris prison?
17. Which artist has a daughter and two sons with Jane Asher, whom he married in 1981?
18. In French cooking, the traditional dish of, basically, pickled herring is called what?
19. What is an alternative name for Belladonna?
20. In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" from the first ball they face?