General Knowledge Quiz 371 (20 MCQs)

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1. What did the "V" used by Albert Einstein in early papers on relativity stand for?
2. Who was the defending champion, and champion agaikn, in the 2014 World Chess Championship?
3. Which US film actress married and divorced both Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan?
4. On 25 April 1945, in which city did a group of nations begin to draft the Charter of the United Nations?
5. The line "It's the only thing that there's just too little of" is from which song?
6. Which Irish art director and production designer, who worked in America for Edison and Goldwyn film studios, and then for MGM from 1924 to 1956, was one of the original 36 founding members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
7. What international organisation was created in 1958 to bring about economic integration between European nations?
8. What are the topmost 7 vertebrae of the backbone called?
9. Measured in 2012, which of these countries had the highest population numbers?
10. Which of these can be a definition of "miner" ?
11. What was the name that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to his package of economic programmes in the mid 1930s with the goals of "the 3 R's":Relief to the unemployed & farmers, Reform of business and financial practices, and Recovery of the economy?
12. What was the first known contact by Europeans with the people of the islands known at one time as New Hebrides?
13. Six Korfball World Championships were held last century, the first in 1978. Which country won them the most times?
14. What is the southern-most Australian state capital?
15. Which tennis player held the top ranking for 160 consecutive weeks from July 1974, to August 1977, and an additional eight times during his career (a total of 268 weeks), winning 8 Grand Slam singles titles and two Grand Slam doubles titles (with Ilie Năstase)?
16. Which of these was a famous British artist?
17. What is one thing which distinguishes narwhals from dolphins and most other whales?
18. The initial slogan for the American War of Independence was "No taxation without ..... " what?
19. Which is the only butterfly known to overwinter in its adult form?
20. The people of which country are the majority in the eastern foothills of the Annamese Cordillera?