General Knowledge Quiz 458 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who wrote "Futility" (1898) about an enormous "unsinkable" British passenger liner called the Titan, which hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of nearly all on board?
2. What does the "I" in the acronym IKEA stand for?
3. Where did Portuguese traders begin to settle in the 16th century, administering the area until 20 December 1999?
4. What is the first name of "Seinfeld" ?
5. Which of these can be a synonym for "capital" ?
6. Which of these is a chemical released by one or more cells that affects cells in other parts of the organism, only a small amount of which is needed to alter cell metabolism that, in animals, are often transported in the blood?
7. Someone in disgrace is said to be where?
8. Whose album after July 2011 became posthumously the UK's best-selling album of the 21st century up until that point?
9. Frank Langella and Anthony Hopkins have both played which historical character?
10. Room 40, or 40 O.B., active 1914 to 1919 in the UK, was a forerunner to a complex known as what?
11. What is another name for a police van?
12. Which of these is a gemstone formed inside some molluscs?
13. In 2001, close to 130 people in Ghana died as a result of a stampede in a stadium towards the end of what?
14. When did art competitions become part of the modern international Olympic Games?
15. One of the requirements to compete in elite ICSD-sanctioned deaf sport is to have a hearing loss of at least how much (in pure tone average)?
16. The term "a glee" could most appropriately be applied to ..... ?
17. Which islands mostly belong to the USA, since they were purchased from Denmark in 1917?
18. What was the first name of Mr. Micawber, who appeared in Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield" ?
19. Which of these is a medical term for the escape of blood from a blood vessel?
20. What are the narrows between Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic?