General Knowledge Quiz 447 (20 MCQs)

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1. Kylie Minogue released which perfume in 2006?
2. Which of these is a treatment used to combat mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia?
3. Mike Moore, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation from 1999 to 2002, was from which country?
4. Cramp affects what part of the body?
5. With which organisation is European star JiΕ™Γ­ KyliΓ‘n most associated?
6. In Australia, what is used to stuff a "carpetbag steak" ?
7. Who or what, at one level, is the "Half" in American author Brit Bennett's book "The Vanishing Half" (2020)?
8. Syntax is the study of the underlying principles and the ways of what?
9. Who was an American serial killer active in various states between 1973 and 1978 who confessed to over 30 murders (estimates range from 26 to over 100)?
10. What is an alternative name for a hydrolaccolith, a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic that can reach up to 70 metres (230 ft) in height and up to 600 m (2, 000 ft) in diameter?
11. One of the children in the 19th century family at the centre of the famous murder trial dramatised in the UK TV show "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher", William Saville-Kent, became a naturalist whose seminal work shaped Australian practice in what area?
12. What is buttock mail?
13. Which classic poem contains the line "Far from the madding crowd" ?
14. As what was Ernest Evans, American rock 'n roll singer and dancer famous for covers such as "Pony Time" and "Limbo Rock", better known?
15. Who was the hero in the "Die Hard" series of films?
16. What is a document that sets out the disposal of assets after death?
17. Which of the following roles was not played by Peter Sellers in the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb" ?
18. What is the term used when one team is beaten throroughly by another?
19. Where was the centennial Winter Olympics held?
20. Which monastic order, founded in 529 CE, was based at a monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy, until it was sacked in 580, when the monks fled to Rome and then spread throughout Europe?