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General Knowledge Quiz 364 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where is the South American railway stretch popularly known as "El Zig-Zag" found?
2. Where was the Koinon, the Commons or Commonwealth, of the Zagorisians?
3. What was the first name of Beatrix Potter's character called Puddleduck?
4. What was the title of the 2001 film that was a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs?
5. Which 1959 film, directed by François Truffaut with music by Jean Constatin, was the story of a 13 year old Parisian (played by Jean-Pierre Leaud) falling into delinquency?
6. When was "I'll See You in My Dreams", composed by Isham Jones with lyrics by Gus Kahn, first recorded?
7. The word "Scandinavian" refers to which part of the world?
8. What book published in 1864 by William Wallace Mitchell, a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, became the basis of the rules of a modern game?
9. Auguste Escoffier was famous for what activity?
10. The first novel by American writer Téa Obreht, set in an unnamed country in the Balkans featuring a young doctor, her grandfather, the stories he tells her, death, and a deaf-mute girl who befriended a tiger, is named "The Tiger's ..... [what] ..... "?
11. What is a tipstaff?
12. Where does the oxygen-and nutrient-rich Cromwell Current flow?
13. The ancient city of Persepolis was an important centre for which ancient state religion?
14. Which of these requires the least area for competition?
15. Who defeated the Persians in the sea battle at Salamis in 480BC?
16. What device, a tool for studying astronomical phenomena, uses the fact that when a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material?
17. In the 1970 UK general election, who was elected MP for North Antrim, became the longest serving MP from Northern Ireland, and led the Democratic Unionist Party from 1971 to 2008?
18. Where was the volcano which erupted in 1815 in what is considered the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history?
19. Who was the writer of histories such as "Life of Nelson", long narrative poems and translations of Spanish writing?
20. What name is given to a compound of carbon and hydrogen in various proportions?
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