General Knowledge Quiz 427 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where was singer-songwriter, model and actress Natalie Imbruglia born?
2. Issei is a Japanese term used by Japanese in countries in North America, South America and Australia to describe what?
3. An outbreak of what virus disrupted the runup to a major international sporting event in 2016?
4. What were the middle names of Oscar Wilde?
5. What kind of soil type is found thickest, globally, in land near the Missouri River in Iowa, USA, at the edges of the Gobi Desert and beside the Yellow River in China?
6. In which of these countries do they drive on the right?
7. Mrs Lovett made meat pies from material supplied by whom?
8. Which American carnivorous mammal feeds by night, habitually dipping its prey into water before eating?
9. In rugby union, what is the name of the set play whereby eight members of each team pack together and attempt to heel the ball backwards?
10. What name did the group Girl's Tyme, formed in 1990 including BeyoncΓ© Knowles and Kelly Rowland, perform under from 1997 until they formally disbanded in 2005?
11. Which film carries a link between director Ryan Coogler, writer director and actor Stephen Merchant, writer Noah Hawley, and director Peter Greenaway?
12. Which of these is a clear vegetable soup?
13. Vidkun Quisling, infamous in Europe, allied himself and his country for a time with what other European figure?
14. Which country was the setting for the novels of Nevil Shute?
15. In Greek mythology, who were the children of Uranus and Gaia (or Gaea)?
16. In 1885, who was the first person to attach a petrol fuelled internal combustion engine to a bicycle at Bad Cannstadt near the River Neckar?
17. Which children's book character was named after the London railway station where he was first met?
18. The New Zealand government proposed to create a 620, 000 sq km Ocean Sanctuary in 2016 round what island or islands?
19. Which English cricketer scored a century in his test match debut in 2006?
20. Australian professional golfer Greg Norman is known by which nickname?