General Knowledge Quiz 545 (20 MCQs)

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1. Cape Crozier is a small promontory on what tiny and very cold island?

Correct Answer: C) Ross Island, Antarctica.

2. Which of these is not part of the same family of German composers?

Correct Answer: C) Barbara Bach.

3. Which of these is a make of guitar?

Correct Answer: D) Epiphone.

4. Bernard Gui (1261-1331) was primarily well-known as a what?

Correct Answer: D) Papal inquisitor.

5. How many books in the Bible's Old Testament are included in the Catholic version but not in the Protestant one?

Correct Answer: D) 7.

6. About two thirds of Africa's active volcanoes follow roughly what line?

Correct Answer: A) The East Africa Rift.

7. In music, which word means "lively" or "animated" ?

Correct Answer: C) Vivace.

8. What is the venue for the first World Outdoor Youth Ball Hockey Championship held in August 2009?

Correct Answer: B) Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

9. Which of these has played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, Los Angeles Galaxy, A C Milan and England?

Correct Answer: B) David Beckham.

10. The Belgian organisation APOPO supplies a method of detecting tuberculosis and TNT in landmines. What is it?

Correct Answer: A) Southern giant pouched rats.

11. What is a green ormer?

Correct Answer: D) A type of abalone.

12. Which of these is an Early Modern English word for "bumblebee" ?

Correct Answer: C) Dumbledore.

13. Which of these trained to be a priest until opting for a different path?

Correct Answer: C) Joseph Stalin.

14. What influential and enduring company did the 22 year old Paul Allen co-found in April 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA?

Correct Answer: D) Microsoft.

15. In the acronym NTSC, used in the television industry, what does the "S" stand for?

Correct Answer: A) System.

16. Which US TV series is set in the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital?

Correct Answer: D) House.

17. Where would barn doors, fresnels and gobos be found together?

Correct Answer: C) In a theatre.

18. On what continent is The Gambia?

Correct Answer: D) Africa.

19. Which of these is a golfing term?

Correct Answer: B) Address the ball.

20. Why did Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles delay their wedding by a day?

Correct Answer: C) The death of Pope John Paul II.