General Knowledge Quiz 344 (20 MCQs)

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1. In 2008, Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton began dating Nicole Scherzinger, who made her name with which American pop/R & B girl group and dance ensemble?
2. In its first 32 years which was the first time the 4-yearly Rugby World Cup was hosted in an Asian country?
3. The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film 1987, Babette's Feast, was set in, and filmed by, what country?
4. "Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. Go, bid the soldiers shoot." are the last lines of which play?
5. Which of these British rulers is from the House of Hanover?
6. What colour is associated with jaundice?
7. Lise Meitner with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered what, for which Hahn (only) received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944?
8. Where is the strait known as the Bocca Tigris?
9. Which of these is not a name given to the period in the history of the Papacy during the first half of the tenth century, beginning with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasting for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964?
10. What was the nickname of ski jumper Michael Edwards, who first represented Great Britain at the 1987 World Championships and, as the sole British applicant, qualified for the 1988 Winter Olympics where he finished last in both the 70m and 90m events?
11. What aspect of the Japanese surrender that ended World War II occurred on 2 September 1945?
12. Who, after marrying in 1791, and living in Naples, became the mistress of Lord Nelson, having his child, Horatia, in 1803?
13. In 2009 what was the world's biggest car maker by sales?
14. What nationality is composer and pianist Philip Glass?
15. Which Scotsman took out a patent in 1876 that was the nucleus of the telephone?
16. Currently, The Heart of Midlothian is NOT which of these?
17. How many digits are there in the number 2020?
18. The game of Roulette was created by which mathematician, physicist, and Catholic philosopher in the 17th century in his search for a perpetual motion machine?
19. What are cytokines?
20. About which conflict did Winston Churchill say "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" ?