General Knowledge Quiz 628 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which building on the Île de la Cité in Paris took 300 years to build from 1163, and was one of the first to have flying buttresses?
2. Anna Wintour is famous in what field?
3. How many years is Methuselah recorded as having lived?
4. Barolo, Cava, Colombard and Gamay are varieties of what?
5. Although he never bore the title of "Pope", the Catholic Church recognises which of these people as the first Pope?
6. If you were to sail directly south from Los Angeles, USA, where would you find yourself?
7. The feet of which are referred to as trotters?
8. Much of Egyptian faience is what colour?
9. What nationality was the artist, caricaturist and author Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)?
10. After the Battle of Landriano, French monarch FranΓ§ois I was forced to concede defeat in which war?
11. Which Beatles number ends with a piano chord that is over 40 seconds long?
12. Which highly contagious disease, characterised by the sudden onset of rigor, headache, delirium and fever, followed by a rash, is caused by a virus conveyed by lice?
13. The assassination of Salvatore Maranzano in 1931 led to a major change in what organisation?
14. Which poisonous compound can be a gas, solid or liquid, the most infamous application of which was use by the Nazi regime in Germany for mass murder in some gas chambers during the Holocaust?
15. What is a function of benzotriazole?
16. A few months after the 1984 Summer Olympics a team of athletes in which sport was disclosed as having taken blood transfusions to improve their performance?
17. Which of these is a vegetable, one of the oldest known to have been cultivated?
18. Which of these historical figures is most associated with the year 1793?
19. The countries of Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, and Russia border which body of water?
20. By what name is Theodor Geisel better known?