General Knowledge Quiz 819 (20 MCQs)

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1. How many sports were competed in the 2018 Winter Paralympics?

Correct Answer: B) 6.

2. How did a "Just Stop Oil" climate activist disrupt the 2023 World Snooker Championship?

Correct Answer: A) He climbed onto the table and threw a bag of orange powder over it.

3. In Greek legend, Aphrodite turned Adonis into what?

Correct Answer: C) Anemone.

4. A doping scandal in 2012 involving Lance Armstrong relates to which sport?

Correct Answer: C) Cycling.

5. Which of these is part of a television set?

Correct Answer: D) Receiver.

6. Who play the two lead characters in the UK TV 2010 series Sherlock?

Correct Answer: A) Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman.

7. In the song 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' what pudding was asked for?

Correct Answer: C) A figgy pudding.

8. Who played Colonel Potter in the TV series "M*A*S*H" ?

Correct Answer: C) Harry S Morgan.

9. Which of these is a piece of music by Franz Schubert?

Correct Answer: A) The Trout Quintet.

10. The first electric tramway in the former Russian Empire was established in 1892 where?

Correct Answer: D) Kiev.

11. Who led troops against the Russians at the Battle of Borodino?

Correct Answer: C) Napoléon.

12. Which of these was a Scottish explorer of the African continent and is credited as being the first Westerner to encounter the Niger River?

Correct Answer: B) Mungo Park.

13. Which of these men has walked on the moon?

Correct Answer: C) Neil Armstrong.

14. In US sport, what do the initials MLB stand for?

Correct Answer: A) Major League Baseball.

15. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces plus one autonomous city named what?

Correct Answer: B) Buenos Aires.

16. In which sport do participants compete for "the Auld Mug" ?

Correct Answer: D) Yachting.

17. In what month is Thanksgiving in the USA?

Correct Answer: A) November.

18. Who initiated the interactive 1961 art work "Painting to Hammer a Nail" ?

Correct Answer: C) Yoko Ono.

19. Who is one of the stars of the film "Frost/Nixon" (2008)?

Correct Answer: A) Michael Sheen.

20. What gas filled the Hindenburg zeppelin which spectacularly crashed and burnt in 1937?

Correct Answer: D) Hydrogen.