General Knowledge Quiz 336 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which calendar, introduced in 46 BC, had a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months, and a leap day added to February every four years?
2. As whom did Mohammad Reza Pahlavi become better known?
3. Who is the subject of the painting by James McNeill Whistler, "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2" (1873)?
4. The Great Rift Valley runs through Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and which of these countries?
5. New Zealand historian Michael King has specialised in what area?
6. The Australian Open Tennis Championship is held in which city?
7. Where is the solitary Minaret of Jam?
8. What activity had Afro-American Booker T Washington been involved with to be invited to dinner at the White House in 1901 by Theodore Roosevelt?
9. Where is the mouth of the River Nile?
10. What were Operation Torch, Operation Ichi-Go, Operation Bagration, Operation Market Garden and Operation Crossbow?
11. The talk between activist Malcolm X, footballer Jim Brown and musician Sam Cooke which occupies the 2020 film "One Night in Miami" includes which other person?
12. For a problem with hair thinning or scalp malfunction which of these would be more appropriate to consult?
13. What is the name of the Polish intelligence agency, which gathers information abroad for the Republic of Poland, that was created in 2002 from the split of UrzΔ…d Ochrony PaΕ„stwa?
14. The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company specialises in performing works by which of these?
15. Which American country music singer-songwriter, born in 1934, won two Grammy Awards of 2005, (Best Country Album and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals) for her album "Van Lear Rose", which was produced by Jack White of the White Stripes?
16. Which country, after the collapse of its government-owned bank and via a referendum, decided in March 2010 not to pay Great Britain and the Netherlands the €3.9 billion that it owed them?
17. The national flag of which country differs from the Italian tricolour only because it contains the national coat of arms?
18. Which spirit was highly popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but was then banned for years in the Congo, France, USA, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Brazil and Switzerland?
19. When were the first colour pictures transmitted from the surface of the planet Mars?
20. The sea which lies immediately north of Norway and Russia is known by what name?