General Knowledge Quiz 706 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where was ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair born?
2. After whom are the four main spectator stands at the Roland Garros named?
3. Which speeds up chemical reactions?
4. The TV series first broadcast between 1978 and 1982, which had the short title of "WKRP", was set in what city?
5. Who produced the film "12 Angry Men", which was scripted by Reginald Rose, starred Henry Fonda and was directed by Sidney Lumet?
6. If you travelled along the line of latitude from New York on the east coast of the USA to Eureka, California, on the west what would you pass through?
7. As well as Woodstock, New York, made famous by the 1969 music festival held nearby there are Woodstocks in several other places in North America; which of these is not one?
8. In the Brothers Grimm story, a dog, cat, rooster and a donkey run away to go to Bremen to become what?
9. "Hobson-Jobson" is the short title of a book written by Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell, first published in 1886, that contains what?
10. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution came about after what event?
11. Who played Vyvyan, a psychotic punk metal medical student with orange-dyed & spiked hair and four metal stars embedded in his forehead, in the UK TV series "The Young Ones" ?
12. Who is reflected in the name for the Philippines?
13. In which year did the South African government lift the ban on the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress, the South African Communist Party and the United Democratic Front, and release Nelson Mandela from prison?
14. Who was the first female gymnast from outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title?
15. In December 2009, Massimo Tartaglia attacked Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with what?
16. Starz created what 2021 roadtrip TV series?
17. What year did Jean-Francois Champollion publish the first correct translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs from the Rosetta Stone, the Roman Catholic Church take Galileo Galilei's "Dialogue" off their list of banned books, and Britain repeal the death penalty for over 100 crimes?
18. Which American serial drama TV series, first broadcast in 2004, follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a Pacific island after a plane crash?
19. An international treaty supported by 122 nation states and passed on 7 July 2017 in the United Nations aimed to do what?
20. The hammerbeam roof, a mediaeval type of stepped wooden architecture designed for spanning wide spaces, is a feature of which ancient English building?