General Knowledge Quiz 310 (20 MCQs)

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1. Jane and Michael were the two children who featured in which of these?
2. Where is the Sea of Serenity?
3. The word "renal" refers to which part of the body?
4. When was the first charter granted to what became The East India Company?
5. Which two countries between them have won every Netball World Championship since its inception in 1963 and as at 2019 are unbeaten?
6. Which of these would be found at a racetrack?
7. Where was the first "Surf Bathers' Life-Saving Club" founded?
8. What name is given to the giving up of food, often for religious reasons?
9. Which Swiss theologian, philosopher, author, organist and medical missionary won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1952?
10. When was the first IHF World Women's Handball Championship held?
11. What role, first established in May 1947 with the appointment of Walter Winterbottom, was filled in 2008 by Fabio Capello, who replaced Steve McClaren?
12. Queen Elizabeth I of England was from which Royal House?
13. 19th century French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, having supervised the construction of the Suez canal, was later famously tried and convicted for what?
14. Where is the Great Green Wall project designed to happen?
15. What type of creature can be called earth, round, flat, butt, arrow, jaw, horsehair, ribbon, velvet, horseshoe, peanut and tape?
16. Which fictional rock band was previously called "The Originals", "The New Originals", "The Originals" again, and the "The Thamesmen" ?
17. "The Same Sky", the 2017 Netflix series based on a "Romeo" operation in East Germany in the 1970s, is a co-production between the UK, Germany and which other country?
18. Crimea, over which multiple wars have been fought, was annexed from Ukraine in 2014 by which country?
19. Who was the ringmaster in the UK TV series "QI" from its inception in 2003 until the end of 2015?
20. The centre of the Somali tectonic plate is approximately where?