General Knowledge Quiz 692 (20 MCQs)

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1. The earliest known example of what was built by Micah, according to Judges 17, verse 5?
2. Ash from what volcano, when it erupted in June 2011, grounded flights in Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay and disrupted air traffic over Australia and New Zealand?
3. Which company won a formative case in UK labour law that held that a union taking strike action could be liable for loss of profits to an employer?
4. Which of these countries produces the greatest quantity of crude oil?
5. A brief and vicious rebellion in India in 1857-8 led to what?
6. When athlete Simone Biles took a break from competition after the Summer Olympics in 2021, lasting until 2023, she ascribed it to difficulties with what?
7. The rock musical "Rent", about a group of artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side under the shadow of AIDS, is based on which Puccini opera?
8. How, it is generally agreed, did John Wilkes Booth (who assassinated Abraham Lincoln) die?
9. Which film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat, begins and ends with public performances by The Memory Man in a London music hall?
10. Who was the Philistine warrior, famous for his battle with David, the future king of Israel, as described in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament and, more briefly, in the Quran?
11. David Seaman and David Beckham are connected with which sport?
12. Which of the following actors has never played the title role in the British science fiction drama "Doctor Who", in its TV series or on film, radio or the internet?
13. Which country has Nukualofa, on the island of Tonjatabu, as its capital?
14. Who was the first recipient of the Pierre de Coubertin World Fair Play Trophy, awarded since 1965 to honour an athlete or a team for an act of fair play that cost, or could have cost, them victory, or could have downgraded their sport performance?
15. In 1815 a fund was set up for 'securing provisions to widows, sisters and other females', which now includes a bank, life assurance, income and critical illness insurance, annuities fund and more; what name is it known under?
16. Stylets are a feature of tardigrades, diptera, aphids and some invertebrates. What purpose do they serve?
17. The 1996 record "Macarena" was by which artist?
18. What was the capital of Yugoslavia from 1918-2006?
19. What was the name of the first commercial spacecraft to transport people to a space station?
20. What name is applied to the general stiffening of the muscles caused by a coagulation of the muscle-plasma?