General Knowledge Quiz 817 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these was not the name of one of the three "Angels" in the first TV series of "Charlie's Angels", first broadcast in the US in 1976 / 1977?
2. Who claimed to be a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and worked to achieve the independence of Abyssinia?
3. What is the aim of the game known as Scythe?
4. In which of these games can the term Grand Slam apply?
5. What year did Shakespeare die?
6. In Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and among Persian-speaking populations of Central Asia, what is the sport called that involves two teams of horse riders, a dead goat and few rules?
7. What was the first black and white short cartoon film to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack, produced by Walt Disney?
8. According to the saying, what "never boils" ?
9. What is the name of the thick dark green fluid manufactured by the liver?
10. Yvette Williams, Mary Rand, Willye White and Kathy McMillan are all medal winners in which Olympic sport?
11. To which organisation, formed in Tennessee in 1865, was Brian A Scates elected as Leader and President in 1867?
12. In the human body, the adrenal glands are directly above which organ?
13. Where are the headquarters of the Arab League, which currently has 22 members?
14. What is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora belonging to the nightshade family?
15. The sopranos Teresa Stolz and Maria Waldmann premiered which Verdi work in 1871?
16. The sun is hot because of the nuclear transformation of hydrogen to which other gas?
17. What computer game was invented by Toru Iwatani, first released in Japan in May 1980?
18. The name of a brand famous since 1899, and known internationally for its range of canned meat and pies, comes from what major South American port?
19. What branch of mathematics was founded from a paper "On a Characteristic Property of All Real Algebraic Numbers" (1874) by Georg Cantor, who built on the work of Zeno, Bernard Bolzano & Richard Dedekind, which, in turn was followed up by Bertrand Russell, Ernst Zermelo, Abraham Fraenkel & Henri Lebesgue?
20. What is the name for the grades in judo from learner to proficient?