General Knowledge Quiz 691 (20 MCQs)

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1. In which decade was George Washington born?
2. Which of these areas, along with parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, and most of Arizona, were added to US territory after diplomat Nicholas Trist negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848?
3. The constellation of Gemini includes which two bright stars?
4. Which country produces the most of the world's olive oil?
5. Which of these was a mathematician and author on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois from 1955-1990, and of Eastern Michigan University from 1990-1999, most famous for writing "The Elements of Real Analysis" and "The Elements of Integration" ?
6. What is the nearest land mass east of the Shetland Islands?
7. What is the technical term for a nose bleed?
8. Quickly is what part of speech?
9. Billy Bob Thornton won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for which film?
10. Brother Walfrid, is a celebrated figure in the history of what?
11. Lydia Ko who took the 2012 Canadian Women's Open as a 15 year old amateur, became the youngest person to win an LPGA Tour event. What is her nationality?
12. In July 2009, why did Russian physicists begin trying to synthesize Ununseptium?
13. On what continent is Niagara Falls?
14. What is used on a greyhound racetrack to induce the dogs to race?
15. The most famous films of which English-born comedian were "Road To Morocco", "Paleface" and "The Iron Petticoat" ?
16. What happens in areas where there is a pattern of a mixed semi-diurnal tide?
17. In the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", what were there five of?
18. Whose career, from 1922 to 1946, included World Billiards Champion 4 times and World Snooker Champion 20 times?
19. What people drove out the Toltecs and were conquered by Spain in the 16th century?
20. Which of Shakespeare's plays was made into a film in 1953 starring Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern, John Gielgud, Deborah Kerr and Greer Garson?