General Knowledge Quiz 546 (20 MCQs)

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1. A halt in 1648 to what must have seemed at the time almost endless wars in Europe, is called what?
2. What currency is used in China?
3. Abyssinian, Balinese, British Shorthair, Birman, Bombay, Burmese, California Spangled, Devon Rex, Egyptian Mau, Himalayan, Japanese Bobtail and Javanese are all breeds of what?
4. For what event in 1215 is Runnymede, England, famous?
5. Which of these is not found on the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
6. The film The Philadelphia Story was made into which musical?
7. Who starred with Bette Davis in the 1962 film "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" ?
8. What does "REM" stand for?
9. How did Nigerian man Umar Farouk Abdulmutallah make world news on 25 December 2009?
10. In which country was the Althing, a legislative and judiciary parliament, founded in 930?
11. The 328 metre high Sky Tower is in which city?
12. He was a founding member, songwriter, and guitarist with the rock band Magic Alex, made his professional acting debut in 1992 in UK TV, and in TV has starred alongside Robbie Coltrane, Philip Glenister, David Tennant and Jim Broadbent. Who is he?
13. June Middleton, of Melbourne, Australia, who died aged 83 in 2009, was in the Guinness Book of Records for spending the most time in what?
14. Why is Harvard University named after John Harvard, a young clergyman from the London Borough of Southwark, England?
15. Score, in relation to an opera, means what?
16. Which actor and musician, born in 1935, won a scholarship to study organ at Magdalen College, Oxford?
17. What is the word for the apparent change in frequency of a vibration due to the relative change in position of the observer?
18. What type of animal is a gelada?
19. Sometimes called elephant or chinese chess, what is this game known as in the Asian Games?
20. "A Dictionary of the English Language", first published in 1755, becoming one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language, was by whom?