General Knowledge Quiz 566 (20 MCQs)

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1. What item of sporting equipment usually has three holes drilled in it, although the rules allow for up to five?
2. What is the next in this series:Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta?
3. According to the English nursery rhyme, who "called for his pipe and called for his bowl and called for his fiddlers three" ?
4. Who created the comic strip "Doonesbury" ?
5. Who arrived to play a concert at the Milan's Arena Civica in July 2006, a 12, 000 seat venue, found that the organisers had not put the tickets on general sale and that only 45 people had shown up, and refused to go on stage for such a small audience?
6. Which painter's most famous works include "Portrait of Mrs. Graham", "Mary and Margaret:The Painter's Daughters", "William Hallett and His Wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen", known as "The Morning Walk", and "Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher" ?
7. What word means "a ceremonial meeting of Australian Aborigines" ?
8. A long running television series about a division of police in the UK is ..... ?
9. The Vardon Trophy, first awarded in 1937, and the Byron Nelson Award, first given in 1980, are given in what sport?
10. Who famously flew a kite in a thunderstorm in 1752 to demonstrate the effects of lightning?
11. On a complex Cartesian Plane where is the unit usually represented as i or j?
12. Donald Campbell, the car and motorboat racer who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 60s, was born in which country?
13. Which country music artist performed at the 2017 Superbowl in the USA?
14. Crossword clues are divided into which of these two categories?
15. The 2017 documentary feature film "Kim Dotcom:Caught in the Web" documents what?
16. In which war did forces led by the Duke of Marlborough and the Duke of Savoy beat a combined French-Russian force at Blenheim in Western Bavaria in 1702?
17. Which Greek God is the equivalent of the Roman God Neptune?
18. What was the name for a form of stencil duplicator used for making numerous copies of a document?
19. What was the name of the first turbo prop airliner, built in 1950?
20. To call someone a whiffler can indicate that you think they do what?