General Knowledge Quiz 409 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which psychological thriller film was the first appearance for Angela Lansbury (currently in long-running US TV serial "Murder She Wrote") and won its lead actress her first Academy Award for Best Actress?
2. Which English football team was both the last to win the FA Cup final at the old Wembley Stadium, and the first to win the FA Cup final at the New Wembley Stadium?
3. What was the capital of West Germany from 1945 to 1990?
4. What was one of the privileges for France in a 1536 alliance between Francis I, King of France, and Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire?
5. The early works of which American playwright (best known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") reflect an "Americanisation" of the Theatre of the Absurd, a movement that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco?
6. What is Plain Bob Minor?
7. What is the aim of the game "7 Wonders:Architects" ?
8. What was the name given to the Minardi Formula One team after it was bought by Red Bull in 2005?
9. San Francisco is closest to which ocean?
10. Who created the character of Hercule Poirot?
11. The game of "racquets" developed into which sport?
12. What does the word "lambada" refer to?
13. If the numbers from 1 to 10 are multiplied by each other, which of these numbers is nearest to the result?
14. Which of these people is a Persian astronomer, poet and mathematician who died in 1123?
15. What 1983 film directed by Brian De Palma, scripted by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, is based on Howard Hawks's 1932 biopic of Al Capone?
16. Which of these is a professional body and learned society established in 1957 and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1984, which has over 70, 000 members in over 100 countries?
17. What are Kali Gandaki, Yarlung Zangbo and Charyn?
18. In thinking about the singularity at the base of the Big Bang which sparked the present universe, some theories about what in turn formed that singularity include ..... ?
19. The Dakar Rally, formerly known as "The Paris-Dakar", an annual off-road automobile race that began in 1978, has usually been held from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal. Due to political instability in Africa, the 2009 rally was run where?
20. Which 16th century Venetian, born Jacopo Robusti, studied under Titian and painted "St George and the Dragon", "Belshazzar's Feast", "The Last Supper" and "Paradise" ?