General Knowledge Quiz 332 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. Which of these cities on the mainland of the Americas is Cuba closest to?
2. What is the meaning of "agnate" or "agnatic" ?
3. Who was the only woman in Lenin's government, played a major role in organising mass movements of working-class women and peasants, was the second leader of Zhenotdel, and was the author of much of the social legislation of the early Soviet republic?
4. Who, through his company, owns copyright to all the songs written by Buddy Holly, and publishing rights to the musicals "Guys and Dolls", "A Chorus Line" and "Grease" ?
5. In 2007, the largest known specimen of what, weighing 495 kg (1, 091 lb) and measuring 4.2 m (14 ft) in length, was caught in the Ross Sea?
6. Where do the short-period comets observed in Earth's sky originate from?
7. What separates Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls and American Falls on the American side?
8. Where is the Australian parliament based?
9. The fictional town of Hartley in Lancashire was the setting for which of these British TV series?
10. What is the next in the series:Calgary, Canada; Albertville, France; Lillehammer, Norway; Nagano, Japan?
11. What has been a state religion in Japan?
12. At the end of March 1949, Newfoundland did what?
13. In which area in Egypt was the tomb of Tutankhamun discovered?
14. What kind of music does Simon Cowell's group Il Divo perform?
15. Who starred in the silent film "The General" ?
16. What moth eats only cloudberry leaves?
17. The German bandwurm word "rindfleischetikettierungsuberwachungsaufgabenubertragungsgesetz" became famous in early June 2013 for what reason?
18. What is the name for a musical work written for nine instruments?
19. Which well-known author wrote, about a quintessential upper-class English sport: "The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun" ?
20. Which of these words means a bad dream?