General Knowledge Quiz 524 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who are Anne Valerie Hash, Stephanie Rolland, Alexis Mabille, Rebecca Taylor, Marc Jacobs and John Galliano?
2. What military strategy involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while passing through an area, first used by the Scythians against King Darius the Great of Persia around 500 BCE, and known for its use by both sides when Germany attacked and then retreated from the USSR in World War II?
3. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are within the realm of which European nation?
4. Which of these is not an alternative name for a wolverine?
5. In mid 1949, barely 4 years after the end of World War II, the UK's Ealing Studios released the comedies "Passport to Pimlico", "Whisky Galore!" and which other film (included in 2005 in Time's list of the top 100 films since 1923)?
6. Who created the characters of Tom Wingfield, Blanche Dubois, Big Daddy Pollitt and T Lawrence Shannon?
7. A 1993 film starring Tom Hanks was "Sleepless in ..... '' where?
8. What is the motto of the Invictus Games?
9. How were Plรกcido Domingo, Josรฉ Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti known collectively?
10. "Facebook" was launched in what year?
11. Parametricism is a tool and style within which of these fields?
12. Which is a 1959 book by Nobel Prize-winning German author Gรผnter Grass?
13. Which of these Mexican cities is closest to the Gulf of Mexico?
14. What is a kittiwake?
15. What is the overtly female version of the "Mr. Men" series?
16. Which of these people is a poet?
17. What was the last battle where a British monarch led troops into battle?
18. What does the "B" stand for in the name of the computer language called "BASIC" ?
19. In geological terms, what are Rodinia and Pannotia?
20. Which country launched the space station "Skylab" in 1973?