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General Knowledge Quiz 426 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the symbol of the Tour de France, worn every day by the leader of the general individual classification at the end of each stage, and awarded at the end to the overall winner?
2. In September 2009, it was rumoured that which 5 foot 5 inch (1.65 m) politician ensured that people who stood around him when he was on television were no taller than him?
3. At the 1988 Summer Olympic Games, Swedish athlete Kerstin Palm competed in the last of how many Olympics?
4. What was the blue dye used by the ancient Britons as battle paint?
5. Where was the first competition named the FIFA Club World Cup held in 2006?
6. Journalist, author, broadcaster and academic Dr Gary Younge was Editor-at-Large and long-standing columnist for which media outlet, where he served for 26 years until appointed professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in 2019?
7. At the start of a game of chess, there are 16 of which pieces on the board?
8. Apart from its shape what is seen as the reason for the name of an island known for its part in an expedition by Sir Ernest Shackleton 1914-17?
9. Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson wrote most of the songs for which pop group?
10. Which American jazz drummer and bandleader, billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove, and speed, had his most widely seen TV performances in a 1978 episode of "The Muppet Show", where he played against "Animal" in a drum battle?
11. What is the nationality of playwright Henrik Ibsen?
12. Which ancient belief about the third finger of the left hand is the reason why engagement and wedding rings are worn on it in many countries?
13. Who wrote the first stage musical version of The Phantom of the Opera, and when?
14. Pierre Konowaloff, a Parisian engineer, sued New York's Metroplitan Museum of Art to recover which painting that, he says, the Bolsheviks stole from his grandfather during the Russian Revolution?
15. What does "lugubrious" mean?
16. What name was given to the force raised by the British Government in 1920 from World War I veterans, withdrawn in 1932, to put down disorder in Ireland?
17. In November 2010, who released a song for which a repeated line of the chorus is "I'm In love, I'm In love, I'm In love, I'm In love, I'm In love, I'm In love, I wanna do it" ?
18. Who used the name "Henry", in communication with Westerners between 1920 and 1932?
19. Richard, Duke of York, the father of the English kings Edward IV and Richard III, was killed at the Battle of Wakefield in which ongoing campaign?
20. Which planet or planets in the Earth's solar system spin in a clockwise direction?
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