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General Knowledge Quiz 316 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these assists a vehicle's braking?
2. Where is the canyon described as the world's deepest and longest?
3. Which of these is an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada?
4. What was the occupation of the character played by Maggie Smith in "The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie" ?
5. In the book "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (publ.1926) what does the title mean?
6. Part of its full title is "also Falsely Called BREAKS. The Wanderings or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo, which Thought is itself Untrue. Liber CCCXXXIII [Book 333]" but it is better known as what?
7. Who is the writer credited on the 2016 play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", the 8th in the Harry Potter series of tales?
8. After a Facebook campaign to make it the number 1 UK single in December 2009, "Killing In The Name" by which band set a record for most downloads in a single week, selling over 500, 000 copies?
9. What was unusual about jumps carried out by BASE jumpers Dean Potter and Bruno Valenta?
10. What star is closest to the Earth?
11. Which of these is Elton John's most popular song?
12. Who won the F.I.M. World Championship 500cc motocross title in 1996?
13. What is the word for the light infantry or cavalrymen in the French army which was first formed in 1743?
14. The satirical American musical "The Book of Mormon" follows two Latter-Day Saints missionaries from mid-west America as they take their message to a village in which country?
15. Which region of South America lying to the south of latitude 40 degrees S was identified by Magellan in 1520 and divided between Chile and Argentina in 1881?
16. The Royal Observatory, from which standard time was recorded, was established in Greenwich in 1676. Where is it now?
17. What is prohibited by an unusual law that has been passed in Lanjarón, Spain, in three settlements in southern France:(Cugnaux, Le Lavandou & Sarpourenx), and has been proposed for Biritiba-Mirim, Brazil?
18. In 1998 the Group of Seven (G7), an informal forum for powerful governments, became the G8 when Russia joined the group, and then became the G7 again in 2014 with the suspension of what country?
19. Michelangelo is understood to have painted a self portrait in the "Last Judgement" on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel (in a flayed skin), and another on the Chapel ceiling as what?
20. The US state of Alabama is known as what?
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