General Knowledge Quiz 590 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who, from 1940 to 1949 was Jane Wyman's third husband?
2. A 19th century French physicist, chemist, botanist and teacher is particularly well-known for his seminal work in establishing entomology. What was his name?
3. Stubble goose is a traditional dish served in places in the Northern Hemisphere to celebrate what?
4. The term, "soccer", coined first in the 1880s in the UK to distinguish types of football comes from what?
5. What is a "put you up" ?
6. Who was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1066?
7. Which of these is found mainly in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, and lives on lizards, birds, fruits, eggs, termites, the young tips of palm trees, nests of bees, berries, sprouts, insects, roots, cocoa, nuts and coconuts?
8. "Monkey's fist" is a type of what?
9. Which 2008 Western film starred Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen as lawmen, Jeremy Irons as a rancher and Renee Zellweger as a piano-playing widow?
10. A former member of the band "Man Jumping" and composer of several operas, Scottish musician John Lunn also composed music for more than one UK TV series. Which one was BAFTA Award-nominated?
11. What Shakespearean play begins "When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning or in rain" ?
12. If you are holding a musical instrument with F-holes what are you likely to be holding?
13. Az, buky, vědě and glagoli and dobro are the first 5 letters of which alphabet?
14. Until Tony Blair, which of Britain's Labour Prime Ministers was in office for the longest overall time?
15. The film actor Norma Jean Mortenson is better known by what name?
16. Rheumatism affects what part of the body?
17. The Singapore Declaration issued in 1971 and the Harare Declaration issued in 1991 are considered to be the two most important documents to what union of nations?
18. Rob Pilatis and Fab Morvan were collectively known as what?
19. Which of these is a disease affecting the eye?
20. In the first decade of the 1900s, Henry Ford established the Ford Motor Company in which city of the USA?