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General Knowledge Quiz 300 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which American screenwriter, producer, director, actor, author and editor, most productive in the 1950s, made "Plan 9 From Outer Space", "Glen or Glenda" and "Bride Of The Monster" ?
2. A constellation whose three main bright stars are called, sometimes, the Three Maries, the Three Kings, or Hap (mule deer), Haamoja (pronghorn), and Mojet (bighorn sheep), was known in Scandinavia as Freyja's distaff and now more generally as what?
3. In a 2009 film James McAvoy plays the role of private secretary to whom, played by Christopher Plummer?
4. A disaster which killed six million people in China in 1333-37 AD was caused by ..... ?
5. Where is Nouméa the capital city?
6. Which part of the world suffered from a drought (1276-99) together with rainfall which continued to be sparse and unpredictable until approximately 1450?
7. The Oath of Sarum sworn in 1086 was between "landowning men of any account" in England and whom?
8. The first series of which BBC sitcom series, set in Billericay, Essex and Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, chronicled the developing romance of the two leads and ended with their becoming Mr. and Mrs. Shipman?
9. The documentary film "This Is It" centred around the backstage preparations for a tour by which pop star?
10. Between April and July 1997 Andrew Cunanan killed 5 people (beginning with Jeffrey Trail in Minneapolis, David Madson, near Rush City, Minnesota, Lee Miglin in Chicago, William Reese in Pennsville, New Jersey) before shooting himself. Who was his 5th victim, shot in Miami Beach, Florida?
11. Who created the character of the detective priest known as Father Brown?
12. Which of these describes tuberculosis?
13. The record at the 1976 Olympics set by Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci of scoring a perfect 10 for 7 routines, was equalled in the 1988 Olympics by a gymnast representing which country?
14. Which might not fit into a vegan diet?
15. Which instrument originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian interpretation of a small guitar-like instrument taken there by Portuguese immigrants?
16. Its name means "red hero" and it is the largest, and capital, city of which country?
17. Which country participated in the Commonwealth Games for first time in 2010?
18. Who were Bert van Marwijk, Vicente del Bosque, Óscar Tabárez & Joachim Löw?
19. In May 1909, Oscar Slater was sentenced to death for murder and released in 1928 with £6, 000 compensation. People who campaigned for his release included William Roughead (who published his "Trial of Oscar Slater" in 1910), William Park (who published his "The Truth about Oscar Slater" in 1927) and which other author who published "The Case of Oscar Slater" in 1912?
20. What figure of Apollo stood from around 280 BC until destroyed by an earthquake around 224 BC?
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