General Knowledge Quiz 822 (20 MCQs)

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1. In December 2005 a beach at Cronulla in New South Wales in Australia saw what media headline-grabbing happening?
2. Where is the Halley Research Station?
3. Which American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001, consisting of Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Bob Bryar, released the albums "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love", "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge", and "The Black Parade" ?
4. Which Olympic Games were the first to be broadcast worldwide on television?
5. The first Oscar awarded to someone playing the opposite sex was for a role in which film?
6. Two American athletes protested during their respective medal ceremonies at the 2019 Pan American Games and were put on probation for 12 months. What sports did they represent?
7. The owner and promoter of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is also associated with what?
8. The "Apokalypsis Ioannou" is the Greek name for what?
9. What is the word for the projection on a ship that holds a lifeboat?
10. What word in Australia and New Zealand has among its meanings to "undermine another's diggings, work over waste heaps for gold" ?
11. What relation is Mme Marine Le Pen to the founder of the National Front (now National Rally) in France, Jean-Marie Le Pen?
12. Which light-heavyweight boxer won a gold medal when he competed at an Olympic Games for the first time in 1960 at Rome?
13. The cricket game at the Oval in London, England, on 31 August 2017 was interrupted and then called off, due to what?
14. Which is one of the rivers which feeds the large tidal estuary known as Lake Maracaibo?
15. Which of these is a 1952 comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds?
16. The 2001 film "A Beautiful Mind" on the life of Nobel prize-winner John Nash was based on the book of the same name written by whom?
17. What name is given to the unnatural fear of men?
18. The "Duckworth-Lewis method" (or D/L method) is used in which sport?
19. What is the usual diet of armadillos?
20. Which of these is a fashion designer?