General Knowledge Quiz 726 (20 MCQs)

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1. The English sovereigns Henry VII and Mary I were members of which Royal House?
2. The only middle weight boxer to win the World Heavyweight Championship was who?
3. Who, in 1960, made international news for banging his shoe on a table in the UN?
4. Which of these was a nickname for the actor John Wayne?
5. When the Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant Abel Tasman set sail in 1642 under instructions from the Dutch East India Company, what places (as they are now known) did he record as having visited and having been the first European to do so?
6. Who is the subject of "The Future Is Unwritten" , a film by Julien Temple?
7. The basic sound and a few words of the Klingon language as spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Star Trek universe, was devised by which actor for "Star Trek:The Motion Picture" ?
8. Which of these is a British sea captain, whose achievements included circumnavigating the globe?
9. Which of these gospels is last in the Christian New Testament?
10. Where was the word "ghetto" first introduced to describe segregated and restricted areas where Jews were forced to live?
11. In what decade was the oral vaccine against polio developed?
12. Which American is famous for her photographs of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken the day of Lennon's death, Demi Moore nude when 7 months pregnant, and, later, nude with a suit painted on her body?
13. Suu Kyi, who was sentenced to home detention for six years in 2003, is the Leader of the Opposition in which country?
14. Which sport, originated by native Americans and introduced to England in 1867, is played with a stick with a net on one end by 12 players per side on a field around 100 to 150 yards long?
15. Where are more than half of the known mud volcanoes found?
16. Established in New York in 1999, what is the High Line?
17. What is the monetary unit of Cambodia?
18. Lavalava is a word common in the South Pacific. What does it mean?
19. What town is the setting for the film "It's a Wonderful Life" ?
20. Which way is it likely that the head of the successor of Queen Elizabeth II will face on a British coin?