General Knowledge Quiz 523 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the subject of the collection of 12 archaic Greek poems known as The Epic Cycle?
2. Which of these states of the USA is the largest wheat producer?
3. In her "Adventures in Wonderland", Alice said which of these phrases frequently?
4. The inability or near inability in colour blindness to differentiate between some colours is, in the most common form of it, between red and which other colour?
5. The River Tiber runs through which capital city?
6. Which organisation, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, was established as an agency of the League of Nations in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and became a specialised agency of the United Nations after the demise of the League in 1946?
7. Kanukai Jackson represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games at what sport?
8. What are IFC, Epix, HBO and AMC?
9. Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter starred in what 1999 film where a large part of the action concerns an expanding group of people who stage fights?
10. When Metro Pictures took over two other companies to form MGM, MGM adopted the former Goldwyn mascot "Leo the Lion" and what Goldwyn corporate motto?
11. When was the first FIA Formula E championship held?
12. Why did the Roslin Institute in Scotland become known world-wide in 1996?
13. The Quintette du Hot Club de France, one of the earliest and most significant continental groups of their kind in Europe and active from 1934 to 1948, was noted for what type of music?
14. Vila Rica, now Ouro Preto, in the large eastern inland state of Minas Gerais in Brazil was the focal point of what in the 18th century?
15. Charcoal production requires burning of wood in conditions with substantially reduced what?
16. Which area was declared a "free territory" in 1947 and administered by the US, UK and Yugoslavia until 1954 when it was partitioned between Italy and Yugoslavia?
17. What nickname was given to Mary Mallon, who infected a known 53 people working as a cook in New York and, in 1907, was the first healthy typhoid carrier to be identified?
18. Which of these is an English artist who became famous for his humorous drawings, especially of machines and other contraptions?
19. Which of these is not one of the four Teletubbies?
20. Beatrix Potter created a character called Jemima who?