General Knowledge Quiz 519 (20 MCQs)

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1. What part does Greek legend assign the Titan, Prometheus, in the development of science (among other things) on Earth?
2. In what activity would a "waulking song" occur?
3. What is a group of stars called?
4. Who became Heavyweight world boxing champion after Riddick Bowe refused to fight him in 1992?
5. Which of these is Marge Simpson's mother?
6. How far is our Earth from its sun?
7. Which theme park in LA County, California, USA, initially created to offer tours of soundstages and sets, is one of the oldest movie studios still in use and was the first of many similar theme parks in, for example, Florida and Japan?
8. For administrative purposes, Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, formerly termed vilayet, which are now called ..... what?
9. What is the distinguishing colour of a male morpho butterfly?
10. What was the last year in which there was just one World Darts Championship?
11. How many sports are there in a decathlon?
12. Atlantic equatorial currents pushed westward by the Trade Winds unite in the Gulf of Mexico and then flow northward. What is the north-flowing current called?
13. Fennec Shand teams up with the eponymous character in a Star Wars-type adventure TV series released from what streaming service?
14. The Eusébio de Queirós Law passed in 1850 in Brazil did what?
15. The long-established ceremony in Oxfordshire, England, of "scouring the Horse", described by academic and archivist Francis Wise in 1736, relates to what?
16. Which Austrian performed the winning song, "Rise Like a Phoenix", at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014?
17. Which Olympic Games were the first where all continents were represented, with all athletes competing in one stadium?
18. What is an element of the game bossaball which distinguishes it from volleyball?
19. Who principally studied transplant rejection and immunosuppression after World War II, which led him to perform the first successful living kidney transplant in the UK on 30 October 1960?
20. Where was the opening ceremony for the 1948 Summer Olympics held on 29 July?