General Knowledge Quiz 650 (20 MCQs)

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1. Whose memoirs inspired and largely provided the basis for the UK television series "Call the Midwife" ?
2. What British television programme starring Stephen Fry, based in a small Norfolk town (where the local pub is called the "Startled Duck"), was cancelled after 3 series?
3. Which National Basketball Association (NBA) team won the 2019 Championship?
4. Which country owns most of the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego?
5. What does the "e" in Juice, the acronym for the mission launched on 14 April 2023 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, stand for?
6. Leo Joseph Ryan Jr., the first US congressman to be killed in the line of duty, was murdered where?
7. Malagasy is an official language of which country?
8. What was the colloquial name given to women volunteers to the US Navy during the second world war?
9. What excise levied from 1746 to 1845 in the UK resulted for a while in hollow-stemmed glasses?
10. Which band performed at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia in 2009 and in the halftime show of the Super Bowl in Miami Gardens, Florida in 2010?
11. Evidence has been found in which cave, that modern man (homo sapiens) may have reached South-East Asia at least 60, 000 years ago?
12. Which describes the climate of Sierra Leone in West Africa during most of the year?
13. What created fjords?
14. Who entered Studio 54 in New York City in 1977 for her 32nd birthday party on a white horse, resulting in publicity that established it as the preferred nightclub for celebrities?
15. Moshing refers to what?
16. A logarithmic spiral, frequently seen in natural phenomena and called spira mirabilis by Jacob Bernoulli in the 17th century, is characterised by what?
17. What was the first French settlement in North America?
18. In the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, and other French venues, where is the venue for the surfing competition?
19. What do the initials MCC, of a sports organisation founded in England in 1787, stand for?
20. The oldest commercial TV network in the UK is named what?