General Knowledge Quiz 818 (20 MCQs)

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1. Before taking office, both US president George W Bush and his vice president Dick Chaney had been convicted of what?
2. A social experiment conducted with a hoax film star in a shopping mall in Virginia, USA, in April 2012 and posted online, concerned what?
3. Which trophy is affectionately called the "Auld Mug" ?
4. What 1939 film, set during the American Civil War, starring Clark Gable and Vivienne Leigh, was based on a book by Margaret Mitchell?
5. After the STASI, together with its foreign-intelligence service HVA, was dissolved in December 1989 what became the final home of the vast remnants of its even vaster records?
6. What is the third planet from the sun?
7. What was the first name of Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement?
8. "He's got this dream about buyin' some land. He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands. And then he'll settle down, there's a quiet little town, and forget about everything" is a line from which hit song of the 1970s?
9. If you travelled down the Missouri River from Bismarck, North Dakota, which city would you be in when you reached the ocean?
10. In the history of the Iberian Peninsula in the 11th to 13th centuries, what was a "taifa" ?
11. What name is given to the activities of the specially constituted group of British, American, Russian and French judges that tried NAZI Party leaders and German military commanders after World War II?
12. Who is the next in this series:Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, George H. W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Al Gore ..... ?
13. When was the first Super Bowl for American football held?
14. Which of these is not a type of pipe?
15. According to Arthurian legend, who was the father of Galahad?
16. Of these which is North Korea's nearest neighbour?
17. One of the stresses that causes a metal object to break is called metal what?
18. One US gallon is equal to how many pints?
19. Where have Luk Thep, or Angel Children, been popular?
20. What was the result of the internationally noted 1956 Treason Trial, which tried 156 men for treason and lasted about 5 years?