General Knowledge Quiz 756 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a terrifying and disturbing dream?
2. The term "tessellated" refers to what type of art?
3. Which country contains the most large lakes in the world?
4. Over 40% of the population of the US state of Alaska live in which city?
5. What was the occupation of Anna Lindh, who was assassinated in 2003 while shopping in the ladies' department at the Nordiska Kompaniet store in Stockholm?
6. Which province of Canada has the longest border with the USA?
7. Which Shakespearean play is the basis for films directed by Orson Welles in 1948, Roman Polanski (1971), Geoffrey Wright (2006), Akira Kurosawa (1958), Billy Morrissette (2001), and Vishal Bharadwaj (2004)?
8. What title, meaning "general", was held by Japan's military commanders from 1192 to 1867?
9. Which author famously upset her publisher by beginning a book with "I am quite tired of making goody goody books about nice people" ?
10. Brucellosis is what kind of disease?
11. The Wallace Line in Indonesia, characterised by particularly deep water e.g. between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi, is also characterised by what?
12. Who includes in his repertoire since 2009 films as different as "Fantastic Mr Fox", "The Men Who Stare At Goats", "The Ides of March", and "Gravity" ?
13. In the nursery rhyme, what is the ladybird told to do?
14. Which of these countries does not administer part of the area known as Kashmir?
15. One of the most endangered mammals lives only in 2 square kilometres of remnant rainforest on Hainan Island in the South China Sea. Which animal is it?
16. In what profession did "The It Girl" of the 1920s and 1930s work?
17. Easter Island belongs to which country?
18. The lowest point in Africa and the second lowest in the world is in which country?
19. What is featured on the flag of Mexico?
20. Which of these was a 1981 hit for Bananarama?