General Knowledge Quiz 448 (20 MCQs)

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1. Billy Connolly, Robert De Niro, Mia Farrow, Sting, Colin Firth, Pete Townshend, Robert Redford and Damien Hirst were among those who signed an open letter in "The Times" to try to achieve what?
2. Which instrument, with a range of around 3 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to C below middle C, with the others to G, D and A?
3. Where is the radius in the human body?
4. What wine originated in the Spanish town of Jerez de la Fontera?
5. By what name is actor Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez, appearing in a remake of "Anne of Green Gables", better known?
6. Where is it possible to see a solenodon in its native habitat?
7. What are elytra?
8. For what is a slide rule meant to be used in schools?
9. What function does glycerol ester of wood rosin have in foods and drinks?
10. Which of these was published last?
11. Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China has no arable land, pastures, forest, or woodland, and its economy is based largely on tourism with banking, gaming, financial services and what else?
12. Yingluck Shinawatra, the last democratically elected Prime Minister of Thailand (in 2011), is related to Thaksin Shinawatra, the first democratically elected leader under Thailand's 1997 constitution; what relation are they?
13. Three mountains in Japan traditionally revered as holy are Mount Fuji, Mount Tate and which other?
14. What is the capital city closest to due north of Kuala Lumpur?
15. In opera, what is the name given to the person responsible for coaching singers and playing the piano for music and production rehearsals?
16. Several Pragmatic Sanctions are recorded to have been issued, by Justinian I, Emperors Charles V and VI and others. When were the first and the last Pragmatic Sanctions known to have happened?
17. The Unasur Constitutive Treaty, signed on 23 May 2008 in Brasília, Brazil, founded what international body?
18. What is the only US state that touches both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean?
19. To which of these is the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) closest?
20. The Vegan Society defines veganism as "a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable" what?