General Knowledge Quiz 315 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who uses a hod?
2. How many legs has an arachnid?
3. Which country between the Andes mountain range and the Atlantic Ocean has borders with Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay?
4. Who was involved with the management of "The New York Dolls", "The Sex Pistols", "Adam and the Ants", "Bow Wow Wow" and "Jimmy The Hoover" ?
5. The 1980 Paralympic Games in Arnhem in the Netherlands led to what?
6. Prepatellar bursitis is more commonly known as what?
7. What is the name of a calculating machine that originally consisted of beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal?
8. What is the lowest score that cannot be scored with a single dart?
9. Which 18th century writer produced "She Stoops To Conquer" and "The Vicar Of Wakefield" ?
10. Which is an intelligence service of Israel?
11. Where is the Humboldt Sea?
12. Which is the film for which Pixar Animation Studios completely rewrote their animation system for the first time in 25 years, and dedicated the film to Steve Jobs?
13. Which of these was a Russian composer whose music was officially denounced in the USSR twice and periodically banned, yet received state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR?
14. What are the two middle names of George H W Bush?
15. Which singer/songwriter, who began releasing hit singles in 1958, has had 3 albums ("The Definitive Collection", "Waking Up Is Hard to Do" & "The Music of My Life") on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart between 2007 & 2010?
16. Who set the record for winning the most races in a single Isle of Man TT meeting, with five wins in 2010?
17. Which playwright, even better known as a novelist, poet, essayist and painter in his own country, included among his more than 60 plays "The Father" (1887), "Miss Julie" (1888), and "Creditors" (1889)?
18. What is the Chilean desert between the coast and the Andes?
19. What have the two constellations Ursa Major and Minor given their name to?
20. According to the Bible, which one of Eve's sons killed his brother?