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General Knowledge Quiz 550 (20 MCQs)

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1. When someone in Davis Guggenheim's team is reported to have called his film, "An Inconvenient Truth", just prior to its release in 2006 a "feathered fish" what was meant?
2. By what name is English singer-songwriter, Ms A. L. B. Adkins MBE, better known?
3. The pull of gravity on the earth is how many more times stronger than that on the moon?
4. Sherpas and Gurkhas are native to which country?
5. Who watched his daughter win her first professional boxing bout in October 1999?
6. In 2021 Scarlett Johansson and Walt Disney Films settled a lawsuit over the release of what film?
7. The valet to Inspector Clouseau, Cato (originally Kato) Fong, in the "Pink Panther" series of films was scripted as an expert in martial arts; what was his speciality?
8. In what mountain range are the four Presidential heads in Mt Rushmore National Memorial carved?
9. Which pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV, one of the "little princes in the Tower" who, legend has it, was executed by Richard III?
10. Which of these was a singer who died at the Landmark Motor Hotel, Los Angeles, officially from an overdose of heroin, possibly combined with the effects of alcohol?
11. What is claimed to be the fastest bird in level flight, (though its record is in dispute from supporters of the White-throated Needletail)?
12. What kind of beverage is "oolong" ?
13. By what name is Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus better known?
14. Where was the sport called "Tossing the caber" developed?
15. The catastrophic disaster at a plant in Chernobyl in the Ukraine in April 1986 is described as what kind of accident?
16. Where does the beat, or accent, fall in a waltz-time bar of music?
17. "Handy" in its Middle English form of "hende" meant what?
18. Which president of the USA had previously been a film star?
19. Towards the end of which century CE did the Roman Empire start to disintegrate prior to separating into Western and Eastern Empires?
20. Which singer recorded "Unforgettable" in 1951, which his daughter, Natalie Cole, made into a duet with herself in 1991?
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