General Knowledge Quiz 712 (20 MCQs)

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1. In which game do players take the roles of children sneaking to the refrigerator?
2. The Serra do Espinhaço runs roughly north to south in which country?
3. Which pole vaulter won 6 consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympic gold, broke the world record 35 times (17 outdoor and 18 indoor records), was the first to clear both 6.0 metres and 6.10 metres (20 ft)?
4. A mastodon was an early form of what animal?
5. Who has played the role of Indiana Jones most often in films?
6. In card games, what is the name for a proposal by a player to take no tricks?
7. When was Credit Anstalt, the first bank in Vienna, founded?
8. What do "cruciverbalists" do?
9. How many members are there in the UK's House of Commons?
10. What is the next in this series: "Born to Run", "Darkness on the Edge of Town", "The River", "Nebraska", "Born in the USA", "Tunnel of Love" ..... ?
11. Which of these is in Copenhagen?
12. Who invented the spa bath?
13. What is Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941 reported to have mainly led to?
14. One of the oldest known board games involves a grid of thirty squares and sets of pawns, figured in a 1999 video game, and is called what?
15. A function whose logarithm is a quadratic equation is represented graphically as what?
16. What British TV series, that aired between 1967 and 1972 starred Edward Woodward as a reluctant professional killer for a branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section', and Russell Hunter as his unwilling assistant?
17. The musical term "scherzo" takes its name from the Italian word for what?
18. Although the position was not officially designated as such for nearly 200 years who was the first person (in 1721) unofficially called the Prime Minister of the British Parliament?
19. King Herod's song in the 1970 musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber is based on a song originally intended for what?
20. Ella Galbraith is a childhood fantasy name invented for herself by which British author?