General Knowledge Quiz 508 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who played Rhett Butler in the 1939 film "Gone With the Wind" ?
2. Which school is the setting for the 1939 film "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" ?
3. Who discovered the moons of Saturn called Rhea, Iapetus, Dione and Tethys, between 1671 and 1684?
4. What was the name of ten Kings of Denmark between 1448 and 1947?
5. In 1567 Queen Elizabeth I established England's first what?
6. Which of these was the title of a TV series starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness, who was in charge of a police unit that tackled criminals during the American Prohibition?
7. The islands called the Moluccas were previously known as what?
8. What car was a feature of the US television series "The Rockford Files" (1974-80)?
9. Who was tried for treason on 17 November 1603 for trying to remove James I from the Engish throne?
10. The Maoist organisation Sendero Luminoso is based in which country?
11. Which of these is a Japanese dish of cooked vinegared rice, commonly topped with seafood?
12. Who, in 2004, riding the prototype KTM 250-SXF four stroke, won the MX2 World Championship?
13. Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland, was the daughter of which other English monarch?
14. Which of these was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer and Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter who pursued war criminals?
15. What did Bertolt Brecht call some intellectuals, including members of the Frankfurt School of thought in sociology and critical philosophy?
16. This 19th century Swiss civil engineer and inventor, brother of a talented painter and father of an eminent French composer and pianist, was a pioneer of the automobile industry as well as inventor of an automotive which could loop-the-loop. Who was he?
17. For the type of bet called a "Quinella", how many horses are picked?
18. What was the name of the evil wizard that appeared in the TV series "The Smurfs" ?
19. What does a glazier work with?
20. What is an "echidna" ?