General Knowledge Quiz 801 (20 MCQs)

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1. What would you mainly expect to see on the US TV series "The Jeff Probst Show" ?
2. Which make of car has won the most 24 Hour races at Le Mans?
3. Whose body was buried in 1543 in an unnamed tomb in the Catholic church of Frombork, Poland, exhumed in 2005, and buried there for a second time in May 2010 in a ceremony conducted by the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland?
4. What does Trendelenburg's sign indicate?
5. The southern border of which country is with the continental USA?
6. The long-running murder mystery play, "The Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie, was developed from an earlier radio play by the same author called what?
7. What was the first, and only complete, novel, published in 1788, written by 18th-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights Mary Wollstonecraft?
8. Who are the only players in an ice hockey game allowed to be in the referee's crease?
9. What 2009 American musical film directed by Kevin Tancharoen is a loose remake of the 1980 film of the same title by Alan Parker?
10. When you see a banana for sale, where is it likely (if not in the country you are in) to have been grown?
11. What is the lining membrane of the cavity of the eyeball connected to the optic nerve which forms the receptor surface for light rays?
12. What is the next in this series:2000, Me, XP, Vista .....
13. Who was in all of these films: "Alfie", "The Man Who Would Be King", "Educating Rita", "Little Voice", "Batman Begins", "The Dark Knight", "Last Orders" and "The Quiet American" ?
14. One of the unique qualities of the Moconá (or Yucumã) Falls in the Uruguay River is that they run along the river rather than across it, and another is what?
15. What is trokosi as practised among the Ewe people in Benin, Togo and Ghana?
16. Who became the first President of the French Republic by popular vote in 1848, became dictator after a coup in 1851, then ruled as "Emperor of the French" from 1852 to September 1870, when he was captured in the Franco-Prussian War?
17. Ballet dancer Chase Johnsey broke a major custom when he was offered the opportunity to dance in female corps roles in what 2018 English National Ballet production?
18. Once a fish has been gutted and butterflied, what turns it into a kipper?
19. An early type of futures market, and a huge speculative bubble and collapse, related to what?
20. After winning the silver in equestrian dressage 1932 Summer Olympics, why was Swedish rider Bertil Sandström demoted to last?