General Knowledge Quiz 494 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is missing (e.g. has been airbrushed out) from the cover of later copies of The Beatles "Abbey Road" album that was published in the original?
2. Who, after a distinguished cricketing career, in his last ever test match innings was bowled out for a duck by Eric Hollies?
3. Which is the 17th century German mathematician and astronomer (at one time assistant to Tycho Brahe) whose works, including '' Epitome of Copernican Astronomy", provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation?
4. Where did Emperor Jimmu rule, in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE?
5. Who wrote the play "Oedipus Rex", "Antigone" and "Electra" ?
6. Dampier in Western Australia is noted for iron ore and which other?
7. Which location-based enhanced reality game developed by Niantic for iOS, Android, and Apple Watch devices was released in July 2016?
8. About how long does it take for the moon to make one orbit of the Earth?
9. What nationality was the writer who created the character Pinocchio?
10. In 1929 Frederick Freed and his wife and an assistant founded a UK company which specialises in what?
11. The main character in the film "Memento" (2000) suffered from what mental condition?
12. Where is the Djebel Babor formation, part of the Tell Atlas and one of few remaining habitats for the endangered Barbary macaque, Macaca sylvanus?
13. Who was engaged to two heirs to the British throne, and during her life saw two of her sons become King and her grand-daughter become Queen?
14. Who was "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" ?
15. Where are the adenoids?
16. Which boxers fought in the "Rumble in the Jungle" in 1974?
17. Who is a senior servant in a large household, specifically in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantries?
18. The chemical compound trinitrotoluene is what colour when solid?
19. If you travel due south from midtown Detroit, Michigan, USA, what is the first country you reach?
20. According to a quote from William Congreve's play "The Mourning Bride" (1697), spoken by Zara in Act 3, Scene 2, "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman ..... '' what?