General Knowledge Quiz 79 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is a type of crane?
2. Immediately after leaving his band Roxy Music in 1973, Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, more usually known as Brian Eno, released which solo album?
3. Where is Wrangel Island Reserve?
4. Patrick Swayze headed a cast including Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn and Vincent Schiavelli, in what 1990 fantasy film?
5. What name is given to the ancient preserved dead bodies found in Egypt?
6. Which opera singer, and oratorio and concert soloist with the New York Philharmonic, London Symphony and Israel Philharmonic orchestras is even better known for dubbing the singing in films of musicals including for Margaret O'Brien in "The Secret Garden" (1949) and for singing roles on Broadway in 2000-2003?
7. Jane Horrocks plays which role in the TV series "Absolutely Fabulous" ?
8. Which of these is a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean?
9. What does the Chandrasekhar limit relate to?
10. The author of the 16th century treatise, "Spiritual Exercises", simple meditations, prayers, and other mental exercises, was which career Spanish Basque soldier, courtier and later university student?
11. Who was the central figure in the 2015 film "Amy" ?
12. Where is the Gulf of Ob?
13. Which of these is a graph of a function showing smooth repetitive oscillation?
14. Tamerlane was a 14th-century conqueror of Western, South and Central Asia, founder of which empire?
15. "The Year of Three Popes", involving Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II, is the name given to which year?
16. Which Caribbean country, consisting of two main islands, is the smallest nation in the Western hemisphere?
17. What sport was competed in the Home Nations Championship, now the Six Nations Championship?
18. The Battle of Khafji was the first major ground engagement in which war?
19. The ancient sport of Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu involves riding or taming what?
20. What was the favourite vegetable of Catherine de Medici, who, when she left Florence to marry the king of France, brought her own cooks, who could prepare it in the ways that she especially liked?