General Knowledge Quiz 600 (20 MCQs)

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1. Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis starred as Madeline "Maddie" Hayes and David Addison in which TV series (1985 to 1989) that revolved around cases investigated by Blue Moon Detective Agency?
2. Billie Piper played the travelling companion to the lead role in which TV series that played in Great Britain in 2005?
3. Which animal has eyes with up to 16 different photoreceptors, which can see UV, visible and polarised light, which can perceive depth with one eye, and can move independently?
4. What organisation developed the Rosetta space mission?
5. Where is Nassau a national capital city?
6. What did Bayer name its new over the counter drug in 1898, developed and advertised as a morphine substitute and cough suppressant that did not have its addictive side-effects?
7. Which European discovered New Zealand in 1642?
8. In the Olympic shot put competition, what is the weight of the men's shot?
9. Six states in the USA are split between two time zones, Eastern and Central. They are Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee and which other?
10. It was released as a video game in 1994, was restructured as a subscription-based MMORPG in 2004, and in February 2012 had more than 10 million subscribers. Which is it?
11. Which of these is the lowest suit when bidding in the card game Five Hundred?
12. Which of these was an English cricketer who played for Middlesex and England in 78 Test matches, and was a footballer at Arsenal F.C. in the 1930s to 1950s?
13. Which of these was a 1990 / 1991 TV series starring Clive Owen?
14. Although the Somali sengi was known locally it had not been observed by scientists after 1970 and was considered extinct, until 2020 when scientists found it again. What is its English name?
15. Which of these lies on the equator?
16. What is a common factor in the land forms of Bhutan, northern Italy and the Basque region of Spain and France?
17. What Latin phrase means "my fault", literally "my blow" ?
18. Which of these is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen?
19. Which coach of the Notre Dame american football team was killed in a plane crash in 1931?
20. In 1863 the Société d'Encouragement launched an event to see international contest between what or who?