General Knowledge Quiz 528 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who plays Mark Sloan in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy" ?
2. Which of these is the largest in area?
3. What is the Roman military formation called the Testudo named after?
4. Which is one matter for which Anne, Duchess of Brittany, (1477-1514), is remembered?
5. Which company, founded in 1950, was the world's first independent credit card company?
6. Singha, Tiger and Kingfisher are Asian brands of what product?
7. In a TV series, who lived in the town of Bedrock?
8. Which of these people was once the Bishop of Cape Town?
9. Where was the saz style prominent in art, textiles and other media?
10. Which Apollo mission was the first to land on the moon?
11. Schwann cells, or neurilemma, react with neuron axons to form what kind of sheath round the axons?
12. A boar is what type of creature?
13. Where is Mozart's 1787 opera "Don Giovanni" set?
14. Which town and Inca archaeological site in southern Peru, northwest of the city of Cusco, briefly served as a stronghold for a centre of the Inca resistance to the Spanish conquest?
15. Which English cricket captain had a well-publicised row with Pakistani umpire Shakoor Rana in Faisalabad in 1987?
16. The parliament of which country has met at the Binnenhof since 1464?
17. What organisation was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1917, 1944 and 1963?
18. When was the 250cc class motorcycle replaced by the new Moto2 600 cc four-stroke class in the FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix?
19. In Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" the Barrister dreams he sees a Snark defending a case where the defendant was what or who?
20. What is the name for a loose mock-biographical quatrain such as "When Alexander Pope / Accidentally trod on the soap / And came down on the back of his head / Never mind what he said" ?