General Knowledge Quiz 700 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which 1986 Oscar-winning film borrows part of its structure from Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" ?
2. Which racquet sport game is played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball?
3. Who published an autobiography entitled "A Journey" on 1 September 2010?
4. On 30 September 1399, Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, became better known as whom?
5. Mt Kilauea, a volcano in Hawaii, has been erupting continuously since when?
6. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was formed in April 1949; when did Germany become a member of NATO?
7. What 1999 film had the tag line "Bigger, Longer and Uncut" ?
8. What effect does annealing glass have?
9. How many tentacles surround a sea cucumber's mouth?
10. The Honda Formula One team was taken over by which team for the 2009 season?
11. Which of these is a description of a mordent?
12. What is the next in this series:Rome, Tokyo, Mexico City ..... ?
13. The Himalayan mountain range runs through Eastern China, Tibet, Nepal, India and which of these?
14. "Degras" is what?
15. What is referred to as earth's sister planet due to its similar size and mass?
16. What decided the International Olympic Committee to hold the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics a year later, in 2021?
17. The best selling 1976 autobiography of which leading country vocalist and songwriter during the 1960s and 1970s, "Coal Miner's Daughter", was made into a film starring Sissy Spacek (who won an Academy Award for Best Actress) and Tommy Lee Jones in 1980?
18. Which of these is a popular ballet by Tchaikovsky?
19. What was the first name of the painter Manet?
20. "In the Land of Blood and Honey", set in Sarajevo in the 1990s in the Bosnian war, was the directorial debut of what USA actress?