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General Knowledge Quiz 729 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who had major hit records in the 1940s with "Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me)", "Near You" and "Underneath the Arches" ?
2. The ancient Greeks sailed through Propontis (now known as the Sea of Marmora), to reach Pontos; what is the modern name for Pontos?
3. What was the highest grossing American film of 1949?
4. The best known work of which 19th century French writer, who has the same name as his father, is "La Dame aux Camélias" ?
5. John McCain's running mate for the 2009 USA presidential election was the governor of which state?
6. When did the very young Lucasfilm's Computer Division create the first completely computer-animated sequence in a feature film?
7. In 2012 which was the city, second only to Paris, with the most populous metropolitan area in the world?
8. Daisy Ridley and John Boyega achieved world-wide recognition as the two young stars in what film released December 2015?
9. The mountains called the Grampians are in which of these countries?
10. From time to time the Earth's magnetic poles reverse; which of these is a way past reversals can be detected?
11. What latin phrase means "unaccompanied" when applied to music?
12. What was the first land passage between Manhattan Island and Brooklyn that, on its opening in 1883, became the longest suspension bridge in the world and its towers the tallest structures in the Western Hemisphere?
13. The Peloponnesian War, fought around 430 to 405 BC, was primarily a conflict between the city state of Athens and people from where?
14. The technology industry centre known as "Silicon Valley" is in which state of the USA?
15. To go "round the houses" in asking or answering a question means what?
16. Which conflict began in England in 1455 after King Henry VI, following a troubled reign, had a long period of mental withdrawal?
17. Out of the following African countries, which has the largest population?
18. What is the former name of the area that is now called Belize?
19. In 1632 the Puritan William Prynne published "Histriomastix", over a thousand pages, showing that what were unlawful, incentives to immorality, and condemned by the scriptures, the fathers, modern Christian writers, and the wisest of the heathen philosophers?
20. Chinese poet Ai Qing is closely related to which of these?
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