General Knowledge Quiz 55 (20 MCQs)

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1. What Irish dramatist, whose first produced play was "Widowers' Houses" in 1892, won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926?
2. What does pemmican consist of?
3. Geoffrey Palmer played the reticent husband of his wistful wife, and Nicholas Lyndhurst one of their two young-adult sons, in which bittersweet 1978-1983 British TV series?
4. What part of the body does interstitial nephritis affect?
5. What does the Latin phrase "ad infinitum" mean?
6. What is the tournament, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship?
7. North, South, East and West are the way that players are designated in which game?
8. Aberdeen is known as what?
9. Which song has the line: "Girls don't like boys, they like cars and money" ?
10. The Neckar, Main and Ruhr are tributaries of which river?
11. Which race when first run on 30 September 1906 from Paris, France, was won by Frank Purdy Lahm of the USA who, with co-pilot Henry Hersey, reached the northeast coast of England?
12. In 1835 Maori from the mainland of New Zealand went to Rekohu, or the Chatham Islands, and slaughtered or enslaved the entire population of which people?
13. Which country suffered the largest number of deaths from a tsunami on 26 December 2004?
14. In the stories by Enid Blyton, what is the name of the best friend of Big Ears?
15. What nationality is the soccer player Dennis Bergkamp?
16. Where is the Pantanal?
17. Which part of the cardamom plant is used as a spice?
18. The Allied forces signed four armistices in the last 6 weeks of World War I. What was the final one known as, in which Germany accepted defeat?
19. What is silver service for?
20. One of the top songs for 2012 featured Gotye and which other artist?