General Knowledge Quiz 451 (20 MCQs)

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1. What forms roches moutonnΓ©es?
2. Who played Jasper in "The 101 Dalmatians", a 1996 live-action film produced by Walt Disney Pictures?
3. What is the current name of the country that was ruled by the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 to 1979?
4. Where is the Celebes Sea?
5. Which is the capital city of New Zealand?
6. What is a synonym for hypothecated?
7. Tony Robinson, well-known as the scruffy offsider Baldrick in the UK TV series "Blackadder", has been the presenter for a series of UK TV programmes since 1994, which focus on what?
8. Of the 6 Summer Olympics held between 1988 and 2008 inclusive, how many were in Europe?
9. What term describes a deep ravine with sloping sides that is often dry in summer?
10. What is the official language of Brazil?
11. Which company was founded and named after the inventor of vulcanised rubber in 1898, almost 4 decades after his death, by Frank Seiberling?
12. Complete the title of this James Bond film: "Quantum of ..... ''
13. What was the first propeller driven ship and the first iron ship to cross the Atlantic?
14. The sci-fi horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (released 1959) marked the last appearance on film by screen icon Bela Lugosi. How did some critics describe it by the 1980s?
15. What is a food consisting of sweetened milk thickened with rennet into a curd, sometimes flavoured with brandy?
16. Which of these is a type of psaltery with strings stretched across a triangular frame which are struck with hammers?
17. What is the connection between the computer programming language ADA, developed in 1980, and the daughter of poet Lord Byron?
18. What colour connects 29 October 1929, 19 October 1987 and 22 November 1963 in US history?
19. The flag of which country is a horizontal tricolour of "deep saffron" at the top, white in the middle, and green at the bottom with, in the centre, a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes?
20. The country of Belgium is on what continent?