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General Knowledge Quiz 549 (20 MCQs)

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1. In 300 CE, the country now known as Spain was part of which empire?
2. Which old London market for cloth goods, founded by a charter from Henry I in 1133 and held annually at Smithfield and then Islington, was abolished in 1855 due to the disorderly rabble?
3. In 1963, US President Kennedy sanctioned a coup d'état in which country to overthrow Ngo Dinh Diem, the Roman Catholic President, by his own army generals?
4. Which of these is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey, formed in 1983 with a singer, guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, bassist Alec John Such and drummer Tico Torres?
5. Which were the first Olympics to be held in Japan?
6. Wharton's Jelly is the gelatinous liquid found where?
7. Which company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 4 April 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for a new microcomputer, the Altair 8800?
8. Where is 0 degrees latitude and 0 degrees longitude?
9. Who was the world snooker champion in 1998, 2007, 2009, and 2011?
10. The word for a territory under British rule that was not part of Great Britain itself was "colony" or "Crown colony" , until the British Nationality Act 1981 which called each one a "British-Dependent Territory" . What name are most of them known by since?
11. St Peter's, Chambly, Welland, Sault-Ste-Marie and Lachine are ..... ?
12. On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian-Serb student and member of Young Bosnia, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia, which led to the start of which war?
13. Netflix is best known for what?
14. "Ratatouille the Musical" (also known as "Remy The Ratatouille", or "Ratatousical") is what?
15. In 1927 one of the players involved in a USA scandal 8 years earlier alleged that 1917 games were "thrown by Detroit in exchange for money, and that Chicago had thrown three games in 1919 as a kind of belated thank you" " . What was the sport?
16. "And death shall have no dominion" is a poem by which of these?
17. Which film features a large green, earwax-eating "hero" ?
18. Which famous American bodybuilder had the advertising slogan "You too can have a body like mine" ?
19. Which 74 year old singer performed most of his 2009 world tour in a dark suit, topped with a black fedora?
20. What part did Josiah Wedgwood, of the famous English pottery, play in the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of the Species?
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