General Knowledge Quiz 296 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where would you find the Koh-I-Noor and the Cullinan?
2. In 2012, 49ers CEO, Jed York, tweeted a joke in relation to the Super Bowl championship game "There is no conspiracy. I pulled the plug." . What was he referring to?
3. Chris Stein, Debbie Harry, Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri and Gary Valentine, originally billed as "Angel and the Snake", achieved fame under what name?
4. Which high-rating American TV sitcom of the 1970s was based on the British BBC series "Till Death Us Do Part" ?
5. A study published in 2016 by Christina Zelano, Jay Gottfried and A Mohanty, Northwestern University, is of the effects on brain activity of what?
6. What was the profession of Hamlet in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare?
7. When jasmonic acid is sprayed directly onto flowers what is the main effect on the plant?
8. The heel of the forward foot must contact the ground before the toe of the rear foot leaves it is a rule of which sport?
9. Who was the last English king to be executed?
10. When a figure is quoted in dollars, almost always the "United States dollar" is implied unless specified otherwise; in 2022, how many economies apart from the US also have a (different) dollar?
11. Which of these people were associated with chess?
12. In cricket, what fielding position is on the boundary behind the wicket keeper, on the off side?
13. In mathematics, Grandi's series is ..... ?
14. What represents a 70th wedding anniversary?
15. Which of these is a playing position in rugby union?
16. R J Mitchell designed which World War II aircraft?
17. Who were the British fighting in the Crimean War at the time of the Charge of the Light Brigade?
18. What is used to play the German game of skat?
19. Which of these was a musical by Irving Berlin, which was written for Ethel Merman?
20. Between 1979 and 1990, the Sandinistas and the Contras were participants in a Civil War in which country?