General Knowledge Quiz 432 (20 MCQs)

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1. Danny and Sandy are the main characters in which musical?
2. Whose motto is "Je Maintiendrai" ?
3. The game of Rummikub, invented in Israel in the 1930s, can be played with either tiles or cards; which describes best how many are needed?
4. Where is the incus found in the human body?
5. Where in the human body can a Phrygian Cap be found?
6. What function does a pistil serve?
7. A sabre is what type of weapon?
8. The mandrill is the word's largest what?
9. Which Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under a parabola, and provided formulas for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and a system for expressing very large numbers?
10. What function do rhizomes perform for a plant?
11. Alfonso de Albuquerque took areas of which modern day country for Portugal in the early 1500s?
12. Which of these would you expect never to be prescribed for someone suffering from haemophilia?
13. Which of these darts scores is the lowest?
14. In the 1960s, Margaret Rutherford starred in four films as which famous detective?
15. What mechanical device allows the wheels of a vehicle to turn at different speeds when cornering?
16. What word is applied to the cutting down of trees in, e.g., the Amazon basin?
17. Where is the term leitmotif traditionally used?
18. In the 17th century, who invented the measurement called the "chain" used in surveying, which is made up of 100 "links" ?
19. What links the UK television programmes Dr Who and Lewis?
20. Which of these was a Swiss painter of German nationality whose style was influenced by expressionism, cubism, and surrealism, who taught at the German Bauhaus school of art and architecture?