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General Knowledge Quiz 417 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which is a method for calculating the height of a geological feature?
2. Commander Shepard, Jacob Taylor, Miranda Lawson, Thane Krios, Grunt, Jack, Mordin Solus, Samara, Morinth, Legion, Zaeed Messani, Garrus Vakarian and Tali'Zorah Vas Neema are characters in which computer game?
3. What sign-off did the cartoon character Porky Pig use?
4. The standard negative pulldown for 35 mm motion picture film is four perforations per frame along both edges, which makes for exactly how many frames per foot?
5. Which is the first children's book in which Dr Seuss did not write in rhyming verse?
6. Kurt Wiese (1887-1974) was born in Germany, lived in China, was a prisoner of war in Japan and Australia, moved to Brazil after the end of WW I, then the USA in 1927, and is well-known as what?
7. What word, invented by Paweł Ciompa in 1910 and first used by Ragnar Frisch in the sense that it is used today, is concerned with developing and applying quantitative or statistical methods to the study and elucidation of economic principles, combining economic theory with statistics to analyse and test economic relationships?
8. Where on the human body are the nares found?
9. What is the generic title of a series of French comic strips that follows the exploits of a village of ancient Gauls as they resist Roman occupation by means of a magic potion brewed by their druid, which gives them superhuman strength?
10. Bushido, developed between the 9th and 20th centuries relates to which culture?
11. What was the largest cruise liner ever constructed when it was completed in 2003?
12. The representatives of how many countries are party to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change?
13. Which film actor (1895-1926) is known for his films "The Four Horsemen", "The Sheik" and "Blood And Sand" ?
14. In 2016 Marcus Reus is the face of the franchise of which computer game?
15. Which of these is a herb used as a flavouring in cookery which grows to about 1 foot high, and has purple flowers and oblong leaves?
16. Which Dutch fabric merchant, surveyor, wine assayer, and minor city official, learned to grind lenses for simple microscopes and discovered bacteria, free-living and parasitic microscopic protists, sperm cells, blood cells and microscopic nematodes?
17. What genre did Howard L. Chace, a professor of French, use when he wrote "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut", the story of Little Red Riding Hood written using English words (but never the correct ones) to demonstrate that the intonation, and context, of spoken English is almost as important to the meaning as the words themselves?
18. A major armed conflict 1768 to 1774 in eastern Europe was a war between the forces of which two?
19. John Scopes was put on trial in 1925 in the USA for teaching the theories of which scientist?
20. Who wrote "Lady Windermere's Fan", "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" ?
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