General Knowledge Quiz 787 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a distinguishing characteristic of Saturn's largest moon, and the second largest moon in our solar system, Titan?
2. Where in London is Nelson's column?
3. The first Telstar satellite, that relayed the first television pictures, telephone calls and fax images through space, was designed to provide satellite communications frrom one side to the other of what area?
4. Which British crime TV series set in Northumberland, UK, first broadcast in 2011 and continuing popular, centres round DCI Stanhope?
5. In Victorian times, what was an item of wardrobe known as a "stovepipe" ?
6. Sheep are aged by their teeth and are referred to by the number of permanent incisors that have erupted. About how old is an "eight-tooth" or full-mouth sheep, which is also referred to as 'aged'?
7. What is old Delhi's military fort, built by Shah Jahan, known as?
8. In which film did Johnny Depp play a policeman called Ichabod Crane?
9. When was the order of the Knights Templar founded?
10. What collective name includes the Samburu, the Arusha and Baraguyu (or Kwafi) peoples in eastern Africa?
11. The following lyric is from which song: "Other eyes see the stars up in the skies, but for me they shine in your eyes" ?
12. Which of these facts about The Beatles' album cover Help! (1965) is not true?
13. Electric, fuel cell, gravity, Wankel are all types of what?
14. In 1957 the Governor of Arkansas, USA, called in the state's National Guard to do what?
15. Which of these points of a horse is at the lowest point when it is standing up?
16. Olympic gold medallists Fanny Blankers-Koen, Inge de Bruijn, Leontien van Moorsel, Yvonne van Gennip, Ard Schenk, Jochem Uytdehaage, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Gianni Romme, Marianne Timmer, Wim Ruska, Charles Pahud de Mortanges and Adolph van der Voort van Zijp represented which country?
17. Where is the Dune of Pilat found?
18. What is the next in this series:Conrad Hilton, Michael Wilding, Michael Todd, Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton, ..... ?
19. No Direction Home is a documentary about whom?
20. Where was the ancient kingdom of Aksum?