General Knowledge Quiz 476 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which word means to move a camera, lighting effect or sound effect from side to side?
2. Polydactyly in people means someone has what?
3. Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) composed a large body of sacred and secular music, particularly noted for the development of the chorale prelude, the fugue and what other music?
4. In USA, Canada and New Zealand, days highlighted in May, November and April respectively all commemorate what?
5. In which award-winning 1985 film do the two protagonists fall in love and then are hired to kill each other?
6. Which American explorer claimed to have been the first person, on 6 April 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole?
7. What is the result if an acid is added to an alkali?
8. Mount Toubkal, 4, 165 m (13, 665 ft), is in what country?
9. Who ordered the execution of Catherine Howard in 1542?
10. What can be described as a "stout cotton fustian made with a pile so cut as to leave a ridged surface in the direction of the warp" ?
11. The 9th Marquess of Queensberry sponsored the rules for which sport?
12. In which country did student protest leader Steve Biko die while in police custody in 1977?
13. Under what name is the longest river in the region of the European Union mostly known?
14. Which is the name of a Goddess that personifies retribution?
15. Which British journal of political and social satire was first published in June 1841?
16. What structure was designed by John A Roebling, who supervised construction until his death when the project was taken over by his son, Washington?
17. Who wrote "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ?
18. In mediaeval England and other European countries how was the price of a loaf of bread determined?
19. Which of these is a prefix that means "false" ?
20. What name is given to the neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person holds a belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs?