General Knowledge Quiz 531 (20 MCQs)

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1. What workers make up the majority of the Teamsters Union in the USA?
2. Which state donated the land occupied by the US capital city, Washington, District of Columbia?
3. There are 22 of which of these to the measure known as a chain?
4. Hadrian's Wall, built following 122 AD, stretches for 73 miles from Solway Firth to where?
5. The group "Smile", formed in 1968 by Roger Taylor, Tim Staffel and Brian May, changed their name to what after Tim Staffel was replaced as vocalist?
6. "Pollywog" is another name for what?
7. In 1498, Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach which area by sea?
8. What position did Liechtenstein take during World War II?
9. In 1888 in London, 1400 women, most of them teenagers and some as young as 12, staged a sustained strike for better working conditions at what factory?
10. A celebration held annually during the last full week of July in Cheyenne, Wyoming, includes what as its main events?
11. In 1984, who had a hit single singing about how he "got my first real six-string, bought it at the five-and-dime, played 'til my fingers bled. It was summer of '69" ?
12. Ding Junhui is a star in which sport?
13. What note does an orchestra tune to?
14. In "Blade Runner 2049" (2017) a number of people reprised their original roles in "Blade Runner" (1982); this included Harrison Ford, Edward James Olmos and Sean Young, plus who else?
15. Trophies of the same name were awarded to the champions of Major League Baseball, the International Hockey League's coach of the year from 1985 to 2001 and the Canadian Hockey League's coach of the year from 1993 to 2001. What is the name of these trophies?
16. What compete at the Burghley Trials, Badminton, the Rolex Kentucky Three Day, the Adelaide Trials, the Luhmรผhlen Trials and the ร‰toiles de Pau?
17. Franklin Roosevelt was fairly fluent in which languages other than English?
18. Unusually for vertebrates, hagfish and lampreys have no what?
19. Which of these is a meaning of bare?
20. Luigi and Lucia Galeazzi Galvani are credited with the first studies in what, published in 1791?