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General Knowledge Quiz 743 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where is the Gulf of Urabá?
2. Although much reduced and fragmented, the Atlantic Forest stretches where?
3. Which of these is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series?
4. After sporadic visits by European explorers and merchants from the 17th century onwards, the eastern half of which continent was claimed by the British in 1770, and officially settled as a penal colony on 26 January 1788?
5. What was the nationality of the scholar Erasmus?
6. The version of Magna Carta accepted by King John of England at Runnymede and given the Royal seal was annulled shortly afterwards by Pope Innocent III; who then issued the version which survived to become the basis of much of modern Western law?
7. If a group have gathered for a bonspiel, and have the appropriate stones, brooms and hacks what other equipment is also needed?
8. Why do haloclines in parts of the coasts of New Zealand's rain-drenched Fiordland foster a unique shallow water growth of deep water coral?
9. Who played Skylar in the film "Good Will Hunting" ?
10. To say something is "bootleg" implies that it is what?
11. Where, since 1839, is the steeplechase known as the Grand National run over 4 1/2 miles in England?
12. The "Giant Marbles" rock formation in the USA is in which national park?
13. Julian Edwin Adderley, a jazz alto saxophonist of the small combo era of the 1950s and 1960s, was known by what nickname?
14. What science features in the "Indiana Jones" film series?
15. One form of ascorbic acid is commonly known as which vitamin?
16. Which English explorer commanded the ships "Discovery" and "Terra Nova" to explore the Antarctic?
17. Where was the Two Seas Canal built, of which the first part was constructed 1666 to 1681?
18. Where does Harry Potter have a scar in the shape of a bolt of lightning?
19. What dye used in cooking for crimson tints is made from the body of a female insect inhabiting Peru and Mexico?
20. From which play is the quotation "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players" ?
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