General Knowledge Quiz 647 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which cartoon series relies on the voices of Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Segall Adlon, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick, Stephen Root & Toby Huss?
2. What sport, when it was first played in 1902, was called immoral and "a monster that spreads its claws to all sides" ?
3. Which new category was introduced In 2017 into the Dakar Rally?
4. Table tennis, or ping-pong as it was called then, was delighting the upper class English in the 1880s. It was played with an odd assortment of equipment; which of these was not recorded as one of them?
5. The Balfour Declaration, made by Lord Balfour on behalf of the British Government in 1917, was a promise to do what after World War I?
6. What is the next in this series:3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, .....
7. What is the name for partially decayed vegetable matter that is dug up and used for fuel?
8. Noam Chomsky thought, lectured and wrote on many subjects, including which of these?
9. The premier rugby union tournament known as the Currie Cup since 1892 is held in which country?
10. Juneau, Alaska is the most northern of the US state capitals. What is the second-most northern?
11. Which British TV series, of a total of 82 episodes between 1991 and the end of 1997, was set variously in the UK, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Germany, Cyprus, Australia and South Africa?
12. Who are the Leopold and Loeb of the 2003 musical "Thrill Me:the Leopold and Loeb Story" ?
13. Which 1972 film, set in the 1930s, involved American Sally Bowles dreaming of becoming a movie star while working at "The Kit Kat" in Berlin?
14. What is the name of the French national flag adopted during the French Revolution, consisting of three equal vertical bands of red, white and blue?
15. An adventurous mouse called Anatole who lives outside Paris, France, and a mouse called Basil of Baker Street who lives in Victorian London, UK, were created by a writer who lived where?
16. Which composer was publicly denounced by his country's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, as an "atonal noisemaker", and whose music was banned in 1936 and then included in the 1938 exhibition of Degenerate Music?
17. What word can be applied to someone who devotes their life to pleasure?
18. Which winter sport was contested as an Olympic sport only once, at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
19. When was the first recorded ascent of Mount Fuji by someone who is not Japanese?
20. For a real or complex number In mathematics, its distance from zero is termed its absolute value or what?