General Knowledge Quiz 368 (20 MCQs)

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1. What instrument is played by blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite and Junior Wells?
2. The most successful tennis player to date, with 8 singles titles and 11 doubles titles, in the WTA Tour Championships was originally a citizen of which country?
3. When did the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire achieve the right to have legislative independence from the United Kingdom?
4. Besides being a composer, philosopher, poet, artist and printmaker, John Cage was a leading authority on what?
5. Who has the line "Is this a dagger which I see before me" in a Shakespearean play?
6. What dish consists of chicken pan-fried in a skillet and covered tightly after the initial browning so that the chicken steams as well as frying, with milk or cream added to the pan juices to create a white cream gravy?
7. In the early 20th century a French chef developed a soup he called Vichyssoise and placed it on the menu of which restaurant?
8. Which of these UK TV series does not include a real life husband and wife among its lead actors?
9. Where are the ports of Buenaventura, Tumaco, Santa Marta, Cartagena and Barranquilla?
10. Who played Dorothy in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz" ?
11. What organisation, formed by Reverend John Flynn and based in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia, began in 1928?.
12. Which of these is a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire and founded the city of Lima?
13. Who did Venus Williams defeat in 2001 to win her second consecutive US Open tennis title?
14. The Baltic Sea is along the shores of the Baltic States, Sweden and which other country?
15. Who was Vice President to US President Ronald Reagan during his terms from 1981 to 1989?
16. Kathleen Brennan produced albums for which musician, starting with his 1983 album "Swordfishtrombones" ?
17. Which Stoke City, Blackpool and England player was the first European Footballer of the Year in 1956?
18. P L Travers wrote the story on which of these films was based?
19. What ballroom dance, recognised by the World Dance Council in the category of "International Latin", comes from Brazil?
20. What is the generic title of a series of French comic strips that first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959?