General Knowledge Quiz 602 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the collective name for The Colossus of Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Pharos at Alexandria, the Pyramids of Egypt, Pheidias' Statue of Jupiter at Olympus, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus?
2. Which character is the first to die in the British TV soap "Coronation Street" (in the seventh episode)?
3. Who developed and built Catch Me Who Can?
4. Which of these is a New England state of the USA?
5. Who was the principal villain in the 2004 movie 'Spider-Man 2'?
6. It started as a play in Germany in 1897 by Oscar Blumenthal and actor Gustav Kadelburg, was recreated as a silent film in 1926 and then as a musical in 1930 as which it has remained popular. What is the title?
7. What is Sirius B, the smaller body of the Sirius binary star?
8. What would audiences watching the play "The Comedy of Errors" by William Shakespeare expect their main response to be?
9. What military slang term for members of the US Marine Corps was derived from a special collar once worn around the neck by both American and British Marines and soldiers from 1798?
10. What is a wyvern?
11. When Kobe Bryant of the Lakers played the farewell game of his 20 year NBA career in 2016 what was his score as part of his side's 101-96 win?
12. In November 2015 how did Michelle Payne make history?
13. Actor John Wayne is mostly associated with what type of film?
14. What was the name given to the line of German defences that ran across Italy from east to west, through the Apennine Mountains via the mountains behind the town of Cassino, to the mouth of the Sangro River in the east?
15. Claude Rouget de Lisle composed which well known tune in 1792?
16. What does the Latin term "compos mentis" mean?
17. What characterises "Los Angeles smog" ?
18. Which American singer who starred in "The New Mickey Mouse Club" from 1993 to 1994 and released her debut album " ..... Baby One More Time" in 1999 was ranked by Forbes in 2009 as the 13th most powerful celebrity and the 2nd biggest-earning young musician?
19. If the sides of a triangle measure 5, 13 and 12, what is the angle defined by the sides which are 5 and 12?
20. What does the suffix "some" mean in relation to the word to which it is attached?