General Knowledge Quiz 303 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the smallest interval in European music, 12 of which make an octave?
2. What is somebody described as thrasonical likely to do?
3. At the 1896 Olympics, winners received a silver medal and second place received a bronze medal. In 1900, most winners received cups or trophies instead of medals. What present tradition was introduced at the 1904 Games?
4. The US television series "NCIS" (2003-now) focuses on criminal investigations involving what?
5. Who composed the music for the Tony and Olivier Award-winning "Billy Elliot:the Musical" ?
6. What is the technical description of the balsa tree?
7. Which river is most sacred to the Hindu religion?
8. What name was given to a narrative poem typically sung by trouvères (medieval minstrels)?
9. David Mamet's plays "American Buffalo" (1975) and "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1982) are set in what city?
10. Who was called "Hanoi Jane" after her activities during the Vietnam War?
11. Who became vice-president and then president of the USA without having been voted into either office?
12. Where is Dan Brown's book "Angels and Demons" mainly set?
13. What sport, the season for which is March to August, has been phased out in all states in Australia except for Victoria and South Australia, and was scheduled to end in Victoria after the 2010 season?
14. Who used to observe the Sarum Rite?
15. The skull can be divided into two parts:the cranium and what other part?
16. Which of these countries has a border with Hungary?
17. In June 2009, General Motors announced that it would sell which of its brands to Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, based in China?
18. What was the name given to the series of trials presided over by Judge Jeffreys after the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 when hundreds were put to death or transported to the colonies?
19. Which of these letters is not in the name of an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young?
20. Who directed the films "Clerks", "Mallrats" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" ?