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General Knowledge Quiz 291 (20 MCQs)

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1. What was the nickname of jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong?
2. Which of these is not an "angora" ?
3. The song "Why Does It Always Rain on Me" is by which band?
4. The Canary Islands are closest to which mainland country?
5. Which German writer, one of the key figures of the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, produced the two-part drama "Faust", numerous poems and the novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" ?
6. Mills and Boon are publishers of what type of books?
7. The Gaelic name for which sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, is Uamh-Binn, meaning "cave of melody" ?
8. William Wordsworth wrote several of his best known works while living where?
9. Someone who engages in skulduggery is doing what?
10. Where was the organization SOUP (formed in 2010 to promote community-based development through crowdfunding, creativity, collaboration, democracy, trust and fun) started?
11. Which film trilogy consists of three live action fantasy epic films: "The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001), "The Two Towers" (2002) and "The Return of the King" (2003) which is based on a three-volume book by J. R. R. Tolkien?
12. In 2013, how many Prime Ministers served in Australia?
13. What are the two forms of parsley that are used as herbs?
14. What stylised 2012 film, directed by Wes Anderson and starring Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton, Bob Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton and newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward, was set on a fictional New England island?
15. Which 1960s sitcom family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Avenue?
16. In chess, how many squares does the King move when castling?
17. In the early 19th century, who began classifying minerals by their physical characteristics and not, as had been done traditionally, by their chemical composition?
18. How many New Zealanders have won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry?
19. Why could chickens have a special reason to be wary of September or October?
20. Where are macons and cleavers used?
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