General Knowledge Quiz 814 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is kept in the sump of a motor car engine?
2. In jazz, what kind of singing is vocal improvisation with nonsense syllables or without words at all, whereby singers have the ability to create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using their voice?
3. A pink gin is gin mixed with what?
4. In 1991 the PYA was formed to represent people in what field?
5. "Now is the winter of our discontent" is a line from which play?
6. Which of these might have a piilion passenger on board?
7. What surgery most benefits from the Trendelenburg position?
8. Helen of Troy's face was said to have launched a thousand ..... what?
9. What name is given to the unnatural fear of death?
10. John Mills won an Oscar in 1970 for his role in which film?
11. What six-note trumpet fanfare, composed in 1946, is often played at the beginning of sporting events in the USA?
12. What TV series was set on Craggy Island?
13. Which law enforcement agency was established in 1908 as a branch of the U S Department of Justice?
14. Which of these shapes does not contain a right angle?
15. If 3 consecutive numbers add up to 27, what is the smallest of those numbers?
16. What is "the American smooth" ?
17. Who discovered the moon of Saturn called Titan in 1655?
18. Who is said by some experts to be the "master" referred to in the English nursery rhyme "Baa baa black sheep" ?
19. Who was the other half of the Bucket household, played by actor Clive Swift, in the UK TV comedy series "Keeping Up Appearances" ?
20. The character "Eliza Doolittle" in "My Fair Lady" was originally created by whom?