General Knowledge Quiz 805 (20 MCQs)

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1. What does commensalism between two organisms imply about them?
2. What is the product marketed as Fisherman's Friend intended to do?
3. When was the sculpture of the four faces on Mount Rushmore begun?
4. For what does Greek legend generally agree that Prometheus received eternal punishment?
5. For what was Thomas Bewick renowned in the 18th century?
6. Passiflora edulis, a vine native to South America, is also called passionfruit, maracujá or maracuyá in South America, lilikoʻi in Hawaii and by what name in South Africa?
7. Sir Edwin Henry Landseer's painting "Monarch of the Glen" featured what animal?
8. What does the "D" stand for in the acronym "PDA", that refers to a small computer that has the ability to connect to the internet?
9. What was the name of the two spacecraft that photographed the planet Saturn in 1980 and 1981?
10. Which of these establishments is based in Washington, D.C.?
11. When was the North Atlantic Treaty which established NATO signed?
12. Until Lewis Hamilton's win at Spain in 2007, who held the record for being the youngest driver to lead the Formula One Championship?
13. From 1797 to 1805 and from 1814 to 1866, the city of Venice was part of what country?
14. What shape is a meat or cake roulade?
15. The Koran is the sacred book of which religion?
16. The Gunpowder Plot, by discontented Catholics including Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby, was to blow up the British parliament as it was being opened by whom?
17. What are Marimo, a form of Aegagropila linnaei, filamentous algae which grow in or beside water?
18. Which of these connects the cities of Accra, Bordeaux, Lleida, London and Valencia?
19. In 1991 he was given the National Medal of the Arts by President George H. W. Bush, in 2003 was inducted posthumously into the American Tap Dance Hall of Fame, and in 1987 had appeared in which film?
20. What was the name of the computer in Stanley Kubrick's "2001:A Space Odyssey" ?