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General Knowledge Quiz 678 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the scientific study of plate tectonics and seabed geology, ocean currents, waves and geophysical fluid dynamics, and fluxes of chemical substances and physical properties within an ocean and across its boundaries?
2. The Misses World for both 1999 and 2000 represented which country?
3. In 1508-9 the British-born Venetian explorer Sebastian Cabot led one of the first European expeditions to the north of North America to find what?
4. Why was the Eiffel Tower built?
5. In what field would the terms Nikkei, Dow, and DAX be used?
6. Where were statues of lamassu built in the first millennium BCE?
7. Which Greek letter usually denotes the brightest star in a constellation?
8. Where was the Year of the Great Stink (1858) which led to the installation of an efficient underground sewage system?
9. After Mac Bethad mac Findláich, or MacBeth as he is known in English, the Mormaer of Moray, claimed the throne of the recently united Scotland when his young cousin King Donnchad mac Crinain (Duncan) died in battle, how many years did he reign?
10. Approximately what shape is the Chinese island of Hainan?
11. In the game called Boggle, played using a grid of lettered dice used to find words in sequences of adjacent letters, what kind of skills are being exercised?
12. Which of these James Bond films is the most recent?
13. Which 2001 film swept the Golden Globes (in Drama) and the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay?
14. Who carried out his early experiments at Villa Grifone, Bologna, Italy, with his brother Alfonso?
15. The didgeridoo is an instrument from which country?
16. What was ordered by Pope Paul IV in 1555 to be set up on the left bank of the Tiber?
17. The musical "The Sound of Music" is associated with which geographical area?
18. Which seabird that ranges widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific has the largest wingspan of any existing birds?
19. What is at the centre of the flag of Brazil?
20. How many songs from the Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" were released as singles?
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