General Knowledge Quiz 294 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where is the phrase "Hakuna matata", made famous in a 1994 Walt Disney animated film and meaning "no problems, or worries", most commonly used?
2. What separates Wales from Devon, England?
3. What was the name given to Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong's ex-wife), Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen, Chinese Communist Party officials who were prominent during the Cultural Revolution and were arrested in 1976, charged with treason?
4. What is the name of an American dish of diced chicken in a cream sauce with pimentos, mushrooms, green peppers and sometimes sherry?
5. In 1962, who starred in the first of the longest-running series of films with the same main character?
6. Which castle, when used as a prison for prisoners of war in World War II, was known as Oflag VII C?
7. Where is one situation in which gold leaf would not be found?
8. Whose autobiography, published in 1999, was entitled "Managing My Life" ?
9. What popular name was given to the 7th Armoured Division of the British Army in World War II?
10. In October 1935, two hundred thousand soldiers of which European army attacked Ethiopia?
11. In Japan's feudal era, from 1185 onwards, a dominant warrior class emerged called what?
12. The invention of what sport is credited to Dr. S. A. Naismith in Massachusetts, USA, in 1891?
13. He established inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, and is thought to have died from pneumonia contracted while studying the effects of freezing on preserving meat. Who was he?
14. "In God We Trust" is not the official motto of which of these?
15. What was the original title of "The Goon Show" ?
16. In what sport are there "16 yard hits" and "penalty corners" ?
17. Who chairs the Invictus Games Foundation?
18. Which of these characters appeared in stories about Sherlock Holmes?
19. As what is Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar internationally known?
20. In 1999, King Abdullah II and Queen Rania became the rulers of which country?