General Knowledge Quiz 690 (20 MCQs)

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1. What does the classification "K-1" mean in canoe competition?
2. What is a set of table top games simulating team sports such as soccer, cricket, both rugby and hockey, and closely associated with soccer, which for many years was marketed as "the replica of Association Football" ?
3. Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Matthew Macfadyen are part of the ensemble cast of what award-winning US TV series, first aired in 2018?
4. What character did Sharon Stone play in the 1992 film "Basic Instinct" ?
5. What is used in paper or textile making, and to form a protective coating on a canvas or other surface to be used for some art techniques?
6. The Vistula is the longest river in which country?
7. Which species of shark is the largest fish in the world?
8. Which art movement, founded in a Zurich café during World War I and consolidated at a meeting held in Paris in 1920, was led by Tristan Tzara?
9. In the late 1950s the American Medical Association publicised, and commissioned research on, what?
10. How did ex-South African cricket team captain Hansie Cronje die in 2002?
11. What is the real name of the artist known as Fatboy Slim?
12. Which festival in honour of a Roman god was forbidden in Rome in 186 BC?
13. What effect does an analgaesic have?
14. Which sculptor is famous for his work "The Thinker" ?
15. Which of these words describes plaster made from 3 or 4 parts sand and 1 part hydraulic lime that can be applied to the walls of buildings?
16. What is the literal meaning of the Latin legal expression "habeas corpus" ?
17. To travel in a direct line from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine in the USA how many major mountain ranges would need to be crossed?
18. Collections of drawings by Santō Kyōden (1761-1816) and ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760-1849) were described as being in what genre?
19. Who developed the live attenuated polio vaccine which has led to hopes of global eradication of the virus?
20. Which of these was famous as a jazz drummer in the mid 20th century?