General Knowledge Quiz 356 (20 MCQs)

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1. The Tumuc-Humac Mountains are between Brazil and where else?
2. Which drama series starring Dervla Kirwan and Stephen Tompkinson centred on a farming community in Ireland?
3. Which animal was specially bred to scent, chase, and flush out badgers and other burrow-dwelling animals?
4. Among several athletes who have run barefoot in the history of Olympic Games, who ran barefoot in the 1986 Summer Olympics?
5. In which sport is a contest called honbasho or basho?
6. Which of these is a type of sponge dessert?
7. Which of these is an alternative medicine based on examining the condition of the eyes?
8. An Australian needs a passport to enter which of these areas?
9. Which film, directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, was about a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas?
10. Whose film career began in 1993 with "The Piano" and whose roles have included Jane Eyre, Queen Isabella II of Spain, a teenage mutant, and a human in a vampire TV series?
11. Which 60 hour annual race of 100 to 130 miles (161 to 209 km) through mountains, with an elevation gain of around 63, 000 ft (19, 200 m), is so hard that when three contestants finished in 2023 it was the first time anyone had finished in 6 years?
12. In the initials or acronym SMS what does the first "S" stand for?
13. Which of these is a disease caused by a coronavirus?
14. Which of these bones is the lowest in the human body (when it is standing up!)?
15. In tuning a snare drum, the resonant head is generally tuned more loosely than what?
16. Which of these is a film production company founded in 1934?
17. What was the fictional family with children called Greg, Peter, Bobby, Marcia, Jan and Cindy, that first came to US TV screens in 1969?
18. The region of Kashmir is claimed in part or completely by India, Pakistan and what other country?
19. What did the Snyder Act of 1924 in the US provide for?
20. Some lorises are popular for the pet trade, although most species are endangered and one particularly popular loris can deliver a poisonous, even life-threatening, bite. Which one is this?