General Knowledge Quiz 579 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is Crémant?
2. Which culture is known for deliberately mummifying its dead as long ago as 5050 BCE?
3. By what name was US president Andrew Jackson affectionately known?
4. What is the word for the minimum number of people necessary to formally constitute a meeting?
5. Louis Farrakhan, the National Representative of the Nation of Islam and an advocate for black interests, is an activist in which country?
6. In what discussion is the term "sett" appropriate?
7. What is an aramaic word meaning "father" that is used as a title of respect to bishops and patriarchs in Coptic, Syrian and Abyssinian churches?
8. Historically, anthrax was recognised as a common industrial disease of which of these professions?
9. Where is the Chungyang mountain range?
10. Which of these countries has a border with France?
11. Which ancient people were thought to have built large pyramidal structures at Tula and Teotihuacan, Mexico?
12. When the UK version of the biographical documentary "This Is Your Life" TV series aired who was the first presenter?
13. Which of these is a famous aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot that means "None shall sleep" ?
14. Who, before being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003, was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice?
15. The line "It did always seem so to us, but now in the division of the kingdom it appears not which of the Dukes he values most, for equalities are so weighed that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety" is spoken by which Shakespearean character?
16. The Indonesian Army special forces group, founded in 1952, that conducts special operations missions for the Indonesian government is called what?
17. In the 19th century, who wrote "Stancliffe's Hotel" when she was 23, a decade before she found a public audience, that was not published until 2003?
18. Who was the nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and heir to the throne, who renounced his children's right to succession in order to make a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek and was assassinated with her in Bosnia in 1914?
19. Which comic character was introduced in More Fun Comics #73 in November 1941?
20. Neo, Morpheus and the city of Zion feature in what 1999 film?