General Knowledge Quiz 648 (20 MCQs)

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1. What do anthropologists study?
2. Who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize?
3. Bob Fosse won a "Best Director" Oscar in 1972 for which film?
4. What genre is the masala film "Sholay" (1975), ranked top Indian film of all time in the 2002 British Film Institute's poll, and named the Best Film of 50 Years in the 2005 Filmfare Awards honouring Indian cinema?
5. What system was added in 1858 to boost communication via the transatlantic telegraph cable between the USA and the UK?
6. What is the name for the principle that "Anything that can go wrong, will-at the worst possible moment" ?
7. Traditionally, horses were kept in a what?
8. What is chalcedony?
9. Jerrymunglum is a name for a what?
10. With the exception of the last two segments, how many legs does a centipede have on each segment?
11. According to Greek legend, who was the muse of Music?
12. Where is the oldest whiskey distillery still operating, which was established in 1608?
13. What infectious disease, caused by a virus, is characterised by the eruption of successive crops of blisters?
14. What sport was reputedly introduced to England by the 10th Hussars in 1869?
15. Which of these was a song released by the Beatles in 1967?
16. The Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics published in 1910, 1912 and 1913, with a second edition In 1927, was co-written by Bertrand Russell and who else?
17. Which British boxer lost the WBA world lightweight title in 1972?
18. What, in relation to an eye, is sometimes called a haw?
19. The first of which make of car came off the assembly line at Fisherman's Bend in September 1948?
20. If something is described as picayune, what is meant?