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General Knowledge Quiz 422 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where in Europe was the Great February Flood of 1825, the worst natural disaster in its area in the 19th century?
2. Olympe de Gouges, a French playwright and political activist, is today best known as an early feminist who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men. How did she die?
3. A call of "do-si-do" or "dosado" is heard during some what?
4. Which of these is an ingredient of marzipan?
5. What is the focus of the annual festival known as Lollapalooza Chicago?
6. What is the real name of "Baby Spice" of the Spice Girls, whose 2007 single "All I Need to Know" was the lowest-charting single of her solo career?
7. What did Joseph Smith say that the Book of Mormon that he translated was written on?
8. In 2017 it was announced that the unofficial geographical centre of North America had been recalculated as being near which town?
9. Who wrote "Desperate Remedies" (1871) and "Under The Greenwood Tree" (1872)?
10. Which play by John Osborne features a character called Archie Rice, a part written for Laurence Olivier, who played it on stage and in a 1960 film version?
11. The viola is tuned one fifth below the violin and therefore they have three strings tuned in common:G, D, and which other?
12. Who started "Poor Richard's Almanack" in 1732, helped draw up the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution and invented the lightning conductor?
13. What is or was scapulimancy used for?
14. British archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) was known for what invention?
15. Who is a mythological lumberjack who appears in tall tales of American folklore, usually believed to be a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, who was first documented in the work of American journalist James MacGillivray?
16. Which was the first Olympic Games hosted in Germany since the 1936 Games in Berlin?
17. Where would you find the Machu Picchu mountain?
18. Who was the first black woman, second African American, and the second woman to serve as U S Secretary of State?
19. What was the title of Graham Norton's autobiography, published in 2004?
20. Which Ohio-born woman joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and was known as "the greatest woman marksman of all time" ?
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