General Knowledge Quiz 745 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these cities is not a port?
2. Muslin and chenille are two what?
3. Where did the early 19th century art movement which reacted against Neoclassicism, the academy system and virtuosity in art, take shape?
4. What kind of event is the Welsh word Eisteddfod applied to?
5. Which of these US states is the furthest south?
6. Harry Osborn is the offsider to which comic book superhero?
7. The ice field which contains the world's third largest reserve of fresh water and is the world's second largest contiguous extrapolar ice field, lies across which two countries?
8. In 1919, Rev Philip (Tubby) Clayton founded which organisation as a club and church for returned soldiers?
9. Which book of the Bible contains the story of the visit of the Queen of Sheba to the court of King Solomon?
10. Which American abolitionist was one of a group who seized the Arsenal at Harper's Ferry in October 1859, was wounded, captured and, in December, hanged at Charleston?
11. Where are the islands of Mayotte, a French overseas department and region, and single territorial collectivity?
12. What did the non-violent resistance group known as White Rose target?
13. Who wrote "Farewell To Arms" (published 1929), "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (1940), and received a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature for "The Old Man And The Sea" (1952)?
14. What vitamin is thiamine?
15. What word was used by poets and nineteenth-century Irish nationalists in English as a romantic name for Ireland, that is the name sometimes given to the female personification of Ireland?
16. Which of these golfers was born in Scotland?
17. The "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests In The Atmosphere, In Outer Space And Under Water", known as the "Partial Test Ban Treaty", "Limited Test Ban Treaty" and "Nuclear Test Ban Treaty", introduced in 1963, was signed by a number of countries including the UK, the USA and which other?
18. What time did the Everly Brothers wake up in the movie theatre in the song "Wake Up Little Suzie" ?
19. What cooking technique involves frying quickly in a small quantity of hot grease?
20. Which Beatle wrote the music for the film "The Family Way", starring Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett, released in 1967?