General Knowledge Quiz 785 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where would one most usually find a wishbone boom?
2. What 1949 film about racial prejudice in the USA by Clarence Brown, from a novel by William Faulkner, involved a black boy, a white boy and an old woman assisting a black man accused of murder?
3. Which South American country counts at least 5, 000 islands (larger than 100, 000 m2 (1, 100, 000 sq ft)) in its territory?
4. What major sporting event was held, also in London, shortly after the London 2012 Summer Olympics?
5. On what day in 1066 was William I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey?
6. What were antimacassars used for?
7. Which of these is a restaurant?
8. What is Teeline?
9. What are the first names of comedians French and Saunders?
10. When C.B.C. Sales Film Corporation changed its name in 1924 to Columbia Pictures, what did the logo they developed show?
11. Which of these is not a prison in the state of New York, USA?
12. Which US President was assassinated by Leon Frank Czolgosz at the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York?
13. In September 2009 the wife of which newly-elected Prime Minister made international news because of her claims to have been abducted to Venus by aliens?
14. The mountain massif called Maxwell Montes contains the highest point on the surface of which planet?
15. Where did Harold of England fight William of Normandy in 1066?
16. Marcel Duchamp, whose work was associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, abandoned his successful career as an artist in the later part of his life to do what?
17. What is a group of rooks called?
18. With what country is the sombrero associated?
19. Who, in 1919, achieved the first nuclear disintegrations by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles?
20. The constellation Volpecula means what?