General Knowledge Quiz 581 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is FMT trialled for?
2. Which is one of two territories which have declared themselves independent since 2008 but remain claimed by their parent country as its occupied territories?
3. The Sex Pistols' initial career lasted two and a half years. How many studio albums of fresh material did they issue officially in that period?
4. Where would you find the river Bug?
5. Which composer's works include the operas "La Bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly", and the arias "O mio babbino caro", "Che gelida manina", and "Nessun dorma" ?
6. Haricot beans are commonly used in what common canned product?
7. Where are the islands called Amherst, Bayfield, Greene, Simcoe, High Bluff, Nicholson, Waupoos and Wolfe?
8. The caffeine-rich infused drink, mate, is prepared from a species of South American holly called what?
9. In 1977, Hamida Djandoubi was involved in what act that was special in French history?
10. "Chateau Snavely", "Amanda's", and "Payne" were three attempts to remake which UK TV series for the US market?
11. What is a cantaloupe?
12. What is a half-pipe used for?
13. When was the island and port of Lagos, part of what is now the most populous city in Africa, ceded to Great Britain?
14. Who was the first British monarch to make a Christmas broadcast to the nation?
15. Robert Allen Zimmerman, American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist, is better known as what?
16. Miss Worlds 1999 and 2000 both represented which country?
17. What shape are the 20 faces of a icosahedron?
18. Which polemical and lastingly influential book about writing and freedom was published in England in 1644 at the height of the English Civil War by a scholar and philosopher later known and celebrated more for poetry?
19. What is the name for the point on the ecliptic when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equator?
20. Which of these is a river?