General Knowledge Quiz 36 (20 MCQs)

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1. How many human blood groups are there?
2. Henry Cooper is associated with which sport?
3. Which of these is a plucked instrument?
4. In what game would you declare a rubber?
5. What makes Douglas Fairbanks the odd one out from these other stars of the early American film scene:Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Errol Flynn?
6. Outside its use in linguistics, what is a "paradigm" ?
7. Which actor won the 2012 Golden Raspberry Award for both the worst actor and the worst actress in a 2011 film?
8. The Wash is an English estuary which opens to which body of water?
9. In Scandinavian mythology, who were the maidens who rode through the sky on horses, sword in hand, to influence the outcome of battles and select the bravest fighters to live in Valhallah?
10. Which of these is a character in "The Matrix" series of films?
11. It is believed that the first of what type of business was opened in 1936 in Fort Worth, Texas by Noah Brannen?
12. In Great Britain, painted strips on the road to show where pedestrians should cross is named after which animal?
13. What word had as one of its early meanings "to shoot an arrow short or wide" ?
14. Where was the first FIFA Club World Championship, a football competition contested between the world's champion clubs, held in 2000?
15. What was the stage name of Norma Deloris Egstrom, an American jazz and popular music singer and songwriter who won 3 Grammy Awards (including the Lifetime Achievement Award) and who was nominated for an Academy Award as an actress?
16. The tectonic plates that lie under the Earth's crust constantly move; in which general direction does the South American Plate which is under South America and much of the Atlantic west of the mid-Atlantic Ridge move?
17. Which daughter of James V of Scotland became Queen of France in 1559?
18. What process in 1932 made it possible for Adolf Hitler to run for political office in Germany?
19. Which of these places is closest to Perth, Australia?
20. If a shawm were a member of the modern orchestra what section would it be in?