General Knowledge Quiz 702 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is a miser or an ill-tempered (frequently old) person full of stubborn ideas or opinions?
2. In what country did rugby football originate, and when were the first rules written?
3. What is a mosquito-borne virus, also known as breakbone fever, that is an acute febrile disease which occurs widely in the tropics, in Asia, South America, Australia and the Pacific and is now endemic in more than 100 countries?
4. What is a link between the religious statues of Our Lady of the Hermits in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, and Our Lady of Tindari, Sicily, and the painting of Our Lady of Jasna Gora, Poland?
5. As what did Lubumbashi, the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, used to be known?
6. Who wrote the book on which the 1973 film "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" was based?
7. What was the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, signed by Charles VI, Habsburg ruler over a swathe of European territories and the Holy Roman Emperor, designed to achieve?
8. Where are the Atlas Mountains?
9. Who had the title role in the 1996 film "The Nutty Professor" ?
10. What name is given to a railway in which a cable attached to a pair of vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope, the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalancing each other?
11. What shape is a bar of Toblerone chocolate?
12. Who was the last to hold the presidential insignia for Poland before democratic election handed it to Lech Wałęsa?
13. In which century is the character of Lancelot of the Lake recorded as appearing in literature?
14. What is the reference in the title of the film "Mr. Pip" (2012)?
15. Dr. Gregory House, Dr. Lisa Cuddy, Dr. James Wilson, Dr. Robert Chase, Dr. Allison Cameron and Dr. Eric Foreman have all worked in which TV hospital?
16. Where is the Great Man-Made River?
17. A TV series first screened in 2014 deals with stunts which fall foul of physics, biology or engineering, and is called what?
18. What US city is home to a basketball team called the Cavaliers and a football team called the Browns?
19. Which of these is an Englishman associated with football (soccer)?
20. A cassowary is a type of what?