General Knowledge Quiz 355 (20 MCQs)

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1. In the acronym NTSC, used in the television industry, what does the "T" stand for?
2. What was the second highest grossing American film in 1982?
3. The US Congress passed legislation in late June 2008 to provide Mexico with $ 400 million and Central American countries with $ 65 million in a relation to what activity?
4. Which of these countries does not have a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean?
5. Who is the only boxer to be the WBA Heavyweight Champion four times?
6. Who married stylist Ric Pipino in 1997, divorced him in 2002, had a daughter by Italian businessman Flavio Briatore, married musician Seal in 2005, and had 3 three more children with him between 2005 and 2009?
7. At the 2009 Freediving Individual World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, and in the Bahamas, competitors from which country won 9 of the 22 medals awarded in addition to setting a world record?
8. Which of these territories became British as a result of the defeat of Germany in 1918 in World War I under the Treaty of Versailles?
9. What does "widow's peak" refer to?
10. Which of these, also known as the silvertip bear, popularly known for congregating alongside streams, lakes, rivers, and ponds during the salmon spawn, generally lives in the uplands of western North America and are thought to descend from Ussuri Brown Bears which crossed to Alaska 100, 000 years ago?
11. What is the name of the system of stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter (then Latin letters in lower-case then upper-case), followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name (e.g. $\alpha$ Tauri)?
12. Kelly Slater is both the youngest and oldest person to hold the world title in what sport?
13. Which of these is a form of bursitis?
14. Nathan, Caleb, Matthew and Jared Followill are better known as which pop group?
15. If the participants in a game have just completed a rubber what game was it?
16. A description that is negative, disparaging, disrespectful or insulting is termed what?
17. Which of these is not a line from the old song "Daisy, Daisy" ?
18. Which is one of the first eight declared by UNESCO to be cultural World Heritage Sites?
19. What name is given to an ambassador to Great Britain who is representing a country that is a member of the British Commonwealth?
20. Which 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer showed, by using geometric construction and the law of refraction, that the angular radius of a rainbow is 42 degrees?