General Knowledge Quiz 534 (20 MCQs)

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1. At what time of day does the church service called vespers take place?
2. Which river begins in the Rocky Mountains in south-west Colorado, crosses New Mexico and forms the border between Mexico and the USA before reaching the Gulf of Mexico?
3. Which wedding anniversary is "coral" ?
4. What was the name of the Flintstones' pet?
5. Which movie star was found dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California on 5 August 1962?
6. Who led the expedition that discovered The Titanic on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean?
7. What ancient form of measurement was represented by the length of the forearm from the elbow to the middle fingertip?
8. What was the common name of the Volkswagen Type 14, a 2+2 sold from 1955 to 1974 in coupe and convertible bodystyles, which was then the car most imported to the USA?
9. When was Nicolae CeauΘ™escu, at the time Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and Head of State in Romania, deposed and later shot?
10. Time magazine was founded in 1923 by whom?
11. Which was the last Monty Python film to include all six Pythons?
12. What device enables a player to use the same chord shapes on a guitar to be played a number of frets higher to raise the key uniformly?
13. SoHo for New Yorkers is what kind of area?
14. The names Corbett and Brambell are most associated with which well-known UK TV series?
15. The first Academy Award winner to refuse to accept their Oscar was Dudley Nichols in 1935. Why did he refuse?
16. Marlborough and Hawke's Bay are wine producing regions of where?
17. Which US TV series (2008-13) had immense audience as well as critical acclaim (and awards, e.g. two of its main actors won Emmy Awards in multiple years) and figures in the Guinness Book of Records?
18. Strictly speaking what would Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh's name lead one to expect?
19. Who was the first US president to succeed to the Presidency upon the assassination of his predecessor and the first US President to be impeached?
20. What is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet?