General Knowledge Quiz 603 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the name of a measure that is equal to 42 US gallons, 158.9873 litres, or 34.9723 Imperial (UK) gallons?
2. In the film "The Reader" (2008) Michael Berg and Hanna Schmitz were played by which actors?
3. Who ordered the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza?
4. What BBC documentary film, screened in high definition and featuring narration and live orchestral accompaniment conducted by its composer George Fenton, had its world première in Dallas in June 2010?
5. When were the Women's Freestyle Wrestling championships first staged?
6. A country-wide law establishing an Assize of Bread in England was passed in 1266, and similar laws continued in effect until the 19th century. What did the law regulate?
7. Who captained the "Endeavour" and the "Resolution" on 3 voyages to the Pacific in 1768-71, 1772-75 and 1776-79?
8. What is the first geological period of the Paleozoic era?
9. Which of these games has 64 squares on a standard board?
10. Which author wrote: " ..... whatever [women] ask for they had first given to us. They create Love in our natures. They have a right to demand it back" ?
11. Which of these is a palindrome?
12. Which country shares a 530 km border with Saudi Arabia on the west, south, and southeast, a 450 km border with Oman on the southeast and northeast, and a smaller border with Qatar in the northwest?
13. Which of these is a sudden and irrational fear of time?
14. If a person has pieces of metal in his body, such as from shrapnel, a bullet injury or any implanted devices e.g. a pacemaker or artificial joint, which procedure is particularly difficult or may be impossible?
15. Francis Crick and James Watson did their research into DNA at what institution?
16. The painter Pablo Picasso was born in which country?
17. What name is give to a tax minimisation deal whereby a profitable company makes a payment to a loss-making company in the same group?
18. With what sport does one associate sponsor's trade names "Ping" and "Titleist" ?
19. What is the name given to the code of Roman law that was "published" with the approval of the Roman Republic in 450 BC?
20. A broad plain formed by the joining of very gently sloping, and typically concave, inclined bedrock surfaces is known as what?