General Knowledge Quiz 649 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which is the third element on the periodic table?
2. Where did the University of Paris called "La Sorbonne" get its name from?
3. What is the next in the series 1, 4, 25, 676?
4. What large flightless bird found in Mauritius by the Portuguese is believed to have died out in 1681?
5. What cemetery near Sturgis, South Dakota, is associated with a gold rush, land wars, and a famous 19th century last stand?
6. Where is Glacier Bay National Park?
7. What are the names of the two daughters of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall that have embarked on modelling careers?
8. Who was the first artistic director of the National Theatre in London?
9. Which of these might you use if you were mountain climbing?
10. In March 2010, Brean Hammond of Nottingham University claimed that the play "Double Falsehood" by Lewis Theobald is based on the play "Cardenio", which was co-written by John Fletcher and whom?
11. "Well you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk" are lyrics from which song by the Bee Gees?
12. What is the result when NaCl and water are mixed at normal room temperature?
13. Where was the final of the 1999 Rugby World Cup held?
14. Which of these could not be described as "calico" ?
15. What did James Bond frequently ask for that was to be "shaken, not stirred" ?
16. Someone habitually dressed in ragged, worn clothing is sometimes described as "out at ..... " what?
17. Which would be most useful in observing the stars?
18. George Orwell wrote most of his bleak dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", published in 1949, while living on which lonely and bare island in the Inner Hebrides in the south west of Scotland?
19. Alice B. Toklas, who wrote a cook book which has not been out of print since it was first published in 1954 (the most famous recipe in it is "Hashish Fudge") was the life-partner of what American author?
20. Drakensberg is a name for an escarpment in what area?