General Knowledge Quiz 705 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement who in 1945 married Lee Krasner, an important influence on his career?
2. What is the focus of the 2020 Netflix series "The Healing Powers of Dude" ?
3. What was the first book to be printed in England, in 1477?
4. What is a pinetum?
5. Which country is led in 2016, in fact though not in name, by someone held by the country under house arrest for almost 15 of the 21 years from 1989 to 2010?
6. Who worked with Rihanna to choreograph her performance at the Superbowl 2023?
7. What dance was Elizabeth I, Queen of England, described as particularly liking?
8. What relationship does T S Eliot have to toilets?
9. Where are tenrecs mostly found?
10. In 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed when a IRA bomb exploded where?
11. In 1968, which book by Philip K Dick was published that became the basis for the 1982 film "Blade Runner" ?
12. What sounds the closest to a low point?
13. What tournament was threatened in 1976 because of the shortage of horse chestnut seeds in Northamptonshire, England?
14. What or who is a gongoozler?
15. In 1937, what name was given to the part of Ireland that was not under British rule?
16. "The Miracles" backed which singer?
17. Which of these is an historical novel by Arthur Conan Doyle which deals with the Duke of Monmouth's landing in England in 1685, the raising of his army, its defeat at Sedgemoor, and the reprisals which followed?
18. What is the title of Mike Leigh's 2014 film, featuring Timothy Spall in the title role in a biopic of a celebrated British painter?
19. Which of these has the smallest land area?
20. What is the only country not to identify itself on its postage stamps?