General Knowledge Quiz 399 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a cwm?
2. What is an antirrhinum?
3. Which play by Arthur Miller used events from early US history to mirror Senator McCarthy's communist witch hunts in the 1950s?
4. What was the setting for "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", a 2008 film directed by Mark Herman starring Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, and Vera Farmiga, based on the book by John Boyne?
5. What game involving reptiles is based on the Indian game called Vaikuntapaoli or Paramapada Sopanam?
6. Which mountain range runs through the US states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico?
7. Which of these is the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding?
8. The Italian cheese called dolcelatte translates into English as what?
9. Although well-known for the dance styles he popularised, which singer, equally known for his music, released as his first single "The Class" which demonstrated his singing in multiple styles?
10. Who was known as "The Godfather of Soul" ?
11. Alberta is one of two Canadian provinces that is land-locked. What is the other?
12. What is the name of the daughter of Ginger Spice (Geri Halliwell), born in 2006?
13. What letters of the modern basic Latin alphabet do not occur in the Turkish alphabet?
14. Who recorded his ground-breaking research on the properties of magnetic iron ore, the Earth's magnetism, and static "electricus" in the book "On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth" (published 1600)?
15. "April is in my mistress' face, And July in her eyes hath place" are the first two lines of what popular work in Britain?
16. Most of Yellowstone National Park is in which state?
17. Which endangered large sea duck winters over exclusively in polynyas in the Arctic?
18. In August 2005 the robotic rover Spirit explored the surface of what?
19. Which medieval work of literature, sometimes called the world's first novel, is still available today?
20. Who was the 2005 European Eventing Champion?