General Knowledge Quiz 381 (20 MCQs)

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1. In which state of the USA is the private research university known as M. I. T.?
2. The Treaty of Kiel, between the UK, Sweden and Denmark-Norway was intended to ease hostilities relating to which war?
3. Which is one of the materials recommended for caviar serving spoons?
4. Which author is the ex-wife of British designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer Sir Terence and the mother of designers Sebastian and Jasper?
5. How many sides does a trapezoid have?
6. When was the first public passenger train run in India?
7. Which French singer and actress was in a relationship with American actor Johnny Depp from 1998 to 2012, with whom she has a daughter and a son?
8. Which of these is not one of the Hindu Trinity?
9. Who discovered Uranus in 1781?
10. When was the first Zeppelin, of which the Hindenburg was the last disastrous example in 1937, first successfully flown?
11. What links American Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) and James Wyld (1812-1887) MP for Bodmin, UK?
12. Which of these was a 14th century Mongol emperor who chose Samarkand as his capital?
13. What is the name for an argument presented in logical form, containing 2 premises and a conclusion?
14. A 1982 film directed by Ingmar Bergman, initially prepared for television as a 4 part serial, was what?
15. What is Britain's richest horse race?
16. In which country is the city of Tangier?
17. What was the first general-purpose electronic computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems which, though designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the US Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, was first used in calculations for the hydrogen bomb?
18. In Morse code, what letter is represented by "dash dash dash" ?
19. In April 1969, Pope Paul VI approved the "new Order of Mass" (promulgated in 1970), which included radical changes to Catholic Church rituals. Which of these was not one of them?
20. What is a method of preserving and sterilising food, in which a product is processed under very high pressure, leading to the inactivation of certain microorganisms and enzymes in it?