General Knowledge Quiz 49 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which Swedish-Danish crime TV series starts with a body, cut in half at the waist, discovered in the exact middle of the Øresund Bridge which connects Copenhagen with Malmâ?
2. Who was the king of Iraq from 1921 to 1933?
3. Where is the Bayerische Staatsoper's home base?
4. Which of these was imprisoned for causing the explosion of a Pan American airliner over Lockerbie in 1988?
5. David Attenborough is best known for narrating what kind of TV programme?
6. "Cassata Siciliana" is a type of what?
7. David Leadbetter and Butch Harmon are coaches in which sport?
8. What won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 2000?
9. After Mao Zedong, chairman of the Communist Party of China, launched the Cultural Revolution on 16 May 1966, he attempted to mobilise China's youth, who formed what groups around the country?
10. The European parliament meets in Strasbourg and which other city?
11. Who is the star of TV series "The F Word" and "Hell's Kitchen" ?
12. Although the speed of light is a constant 186, 000 miles per second (299, 792, 458 metres per second) when passing through a vacuum, it slows in dense mediums. What is the densest of these mediums, i.e. slows light the most?
13. Which of these is contained in the nucleus of an atom?
14. Which of these is an Italian film-maker who has an airport named after him?
15. When is Emancipation Day observed in much of Canada, and in the parts of the Caribbean in which there were British possessions in 1833?
16. Where was the Republic of Katanga?
17. If a person has a kit containing dental picks, trowels, brushes, line levels, a sieve, shovels, storage bags, pens/pencils and a tape measure what are they likely to be?
18. Of all of the capitals of sovereign countries that are closest to each other, which two are the furthest apart?
19. Which of these is not an alternative name for a game of dice for one or more players, mostly played in a group of two to four where traditionally a counting box is used with tiles numbered 1 to 9, known as Klackers, Zoltan box, Batten down the Hatches or High Rollers?
20. Where does the €10 Greek commemorative coin, minted in 2003 to commemorate the 2004 Summer Olympics, showing handball take its design from?