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General Knowledge Quiz 592 (20 MCQs)

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1. About 90% of the world's extractable material, used for the manufacture of ornamental objects and jewellery, is in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia on the Baltic Sea. What type of material is this?
2. Which playwright wrote the plays that won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1963 & 2002 and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967, 1975 & 1994, and gained nominations for Tony Award for Best Play in 1964, 1965, 1967 & 1975, Tony Award for Best Author of a Play in 1965, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001 & 2003 and a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2005?
3. How did Steve Rogers (Captain America) acquire his super powers?
4. Why was the Ice Hockey World Championship at Chamonix in 1930 moved mid-championship to Vienna and Berlin?
5. Where was the 1991 film "The Commitments" set?
6. The cruciate ligaments are in which part of the human body?
7. "Unchained Melody", originally released on the soundtrack of the film "Unchained" in 1955, was written by whom?
8. Which major Roman road in England linked London to the Fosse Way, passing through Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring, Aylesbury and Bicester before changing direction towards the south-west, passing Woodstock and Witney to the north before heading into Cirencester?
9. What was the destination of a number of caged chickens which were found abandoned, starving, dehydrated, and (in the case of 35 of them) drowned, in the streets of Brooklyn, New York, in late 2005?
10. Which two are recognised as being the first to adopt Christianity as their state religion?
11. Who composed the music of "Dido and Aeneas", first performed around 1688?
12. Which of these is a fortified town in France?
13. In Spain, what does "cortes" refer to?
14. What is a strumpeteer?
15. In India in the 1930s, the left wing nationalist party was run by Subhas Chandra Bore, and Gandhi's followers were in the centre. What was the main right wing party?
16. Which Greek philosopher and teacher of Alexander the Great, wrote on many subjects including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology, and died in Euboea of natural causes in 322 BC?
17. Between 1973 and 1979, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Nur Mohammad Taraki, Hafizullah Amin and Babrak Karmal were presidents of which country?
18. Military signals are given on which musical instrument?
19. In Scandinavian mythology, who was the son of Odin that had a magic hammer called Miohir?
20. What is Boesmansgat, or Bushman's Hole, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa?
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