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General Knowledge Quiz 775 (20 MCQs)

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1. What 1956 opera is based on a novella developed from a screenplay written by Georges Bernanos for a film of "Die Letzte am Schafott" (The Last on the Scaffold, or Song at the Scaffold)?
2. In autumn 2012 which phenomenon was observed in Alsace?
3. Phil Davis, Leslie Ash, Toyah, Sting and Ray Winstone among others star in the 1979 film "Quadrophenia", which follows Phil Daniels as which young London Mod?
4. Who was elected joint Vice-Chancellor by the Swiss Federal Assembly in August 2005 and became Federal Chancellor of Switzerland in December 2007?
5. Who is second in the line of US presidential succession, following the Vice President?
6. Roughly how many days does it take the moon to orbit the earth?
7. Which Frenchman was a Franciscan, then a Benedictine monk, a teacher, a professor of anatomy and a priest, who wrote "Gargantua et Pantagruel", a huge comic narrative full of miscellaneous learning from the 16th century?
8. Two Eastern Christian missionaries, brothers from Thessalonika, came as missionaries to Moravia in the ninth century CE as part of Christianisation requested by the Byzantine Emperor Michael III, and invented what?
9. How was the Olympic cauldron ignited at the opening of the Summer Olympics in 1992?
10. The Great Plague, an outbreak of disease in England that killed an estimated 100, 000 people, lasted for how long?
11. What group, consisting of vibraphonist Milt Jackson, bassist Percy Heath, drummer Kenny Clarke and pianist John Lewis (as musical director), was formed in 1952?
12. Which lake in Canada has the same name as a constellation?
13. What was the name of the British India "Special Force", the brainchild of British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate, that operated behind Japanese lines in Burma & India in 1943/1944 during World War II?
14. What ancient people, whose major cities were Tyre and Sidon, founded Carthage?
15. What was the film to win a "Best Picture" Oscar in 2009 without receiving any acting nominations?
16. Which sport was developed in 1895 when the Rugby Union refused to allow professionalism?
17. Judi Dench won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for playing which character in the 1998 film "Shakespeare in Love" ?
18. What animal other than a cat is an integral part of the musical Cats?
19. What is the name of an official judge at a cycling event?
20. Against which area of Germany were the raids of the Dambusters directed in World War II in May 1943?
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