General Knowledge Quiz 297 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who has been engaged to US tennis player Jimmy Connors and married to British tennis player John Lloyd, Olympic downhill skier Andy Mill and Australian golfer Greg Norman?
2. What was the comedy, poetry and music trio, active from 1964 to 1977, from Liverpool, England, made up of Mike McGear (a.k.a. Peter Michael McCartney), Roger McGough and John Gorman, that made the hit singles "Thank U Very Much" and "Lily the Pink" ?
3. Which new French wine is released annually on the third Thursday in November?
4. Which country won the Rugby League World Cup in 2008?
5. Which of these are "pulse vegetables" ?
6. After which Herschel is the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, discovered in 1788, named?
7. Where is "Drake's Passage" ?
8. What kind of plant is willow-leaf hebe, or koromiko?
9. Where is the world's largest salt flat?
10. Who hosted the 2006 Academy Awards ceremony?
11. What is the only county in the USA to border 5 counties from 5 different states:Baca County, Colorado; Morton County, Kansas; Texas County, Oklahoma; Dallam County, Texas; Union County, New Mexico?
12. A regulation basketball court in international games is 28 by 15 meters (approx. 92 by 49 ft). What size should it be for NBA games?
13. Which of these songs was not produced by George Martin?
14. What word best describes a triangle where all sides are different lengths?
15. Which of these bands had hit records with "Yellow", "Trouble" and "Viva La Vida" ?
16. What Texas city stands on the Rio Grande (RΓ­o Bravo del Norte), across the border from Ciudad JuΓ‘rez, Chihuahua, Mexico?
17. What profession had been followed by Yorick, a character in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" ?
18. Who are the main characters in the UK television series "Dalziel and Pascoe" (1996-2007)?
19. Which of these countries is furthest north?
20. Which British company announced, in 1960, a computer which introduced the use of core memory and was based on decimal instead of binary?