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General Knowledge Quiz 326 (20 MCQs)

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1. Six New Zealanders went away from the 2010 Academy Awards with Oscar statuettes, all for their work on one film; what was the film?
2. A song introduced for the 1914 US run of the British musical "The Girl from Utah", by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Herbert Reynolds, was "They didn't ..... (what) ..... Me" ?
3. Who sings the theme song for the UK TV series "New Tricks" ?
4. The present human footspeed record was set in 2009 by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. What speed did he reach?
5. In 1779 Captain James Cook, having surveyed the West Coast of the continent of North America, was killed at which islands?
6. What is a kora?
7. What retail chain is named after a character from Herman Melville's book Moby Dick?
8. What software was acquired by Google in 2007 and used in the process of developing a public data search function that made it easier to find data in a Google search?
9. Which animated TV series, which first aired in the UK in November 2016, features rotating members of a superhero group plus characters made famous by DC Comics?
10. What was mass-produced in China by the 14th century, was first mass-produced commercially and publicly available in the West in the 19th century, and is currently a staple of many households globally?
11. What is "amblyopia" commonly known as?
12. What kind of game was tablut, a form of hnefatafl?
13. Where did the impressionist painter Paul Gauguin spend around four years of his early childhood?
14. The "Hyksos" was the name given to a people who assumed rule in which country in the second millennium BCE?
15. What does the acronym FAST refer to in astronomy?
16. What part of the USA is known as "Tinseltown" ?
17. The first 5 meetings of which annual international competition were held at Göteborg, Sweden (twice), Baltimore, USA, Birmingham, England, and Vienna, Austria?
18. What rock forms much of the land of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil?
19. Which ITV live morning magazine programme has screened, as at 2018, for thirty years?
20. Who has been quoted as saying "If you have a statue in the city centre, you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right-but as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture" ?
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