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General Knowledge Quiz 823 (20 MCQs)

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1. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, what were the family of Bill, Bob, Barry, John, Susan and Paul known as?
2. The character Mimi appears in what late nineteenth century opera?
3. A tirade by Christian Bale directed at Shane Hurlbut, director of photography was on the set of which 2009 film?
4. In the banking system, highlighted in the 2008-12 international scandals, what does LIBOR stand for?
5. Which is the common name of the perennial herb, crocus sativus, with purple flowers and orange coloured stigmas?
6. Pea aphids are generally wingless, but can develop wings in what conditions?
7. Who wrote "A Room With A View", "Howard's End" and "A Passage To India" ?
8. What is the habitat of a velella?
9. What did the original name of the game now known as mahjong mean?
10. What is the name of the dark nebula in the constellation Orion that is approximately 1500 light years from Earth?
11. What colour or colours did the English national football team wear for its first away kit?
12. What theory, developed by Franz Joseph Gall, in which personality traits were determined by "reading" bumps and fissures in the skull, was once considered a science?
13. What was the name of Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee?
14. What is the meaning of the name Jezero, chosen for a crater on Mars?
15. In which sea is the island of Barbados?
16. Why is the scarlet pimpernel, a low-growing annual plant found in Europe, Asia and North America, known as 'the poor man's barometer' and 'the poor man's weatherglass'?
17. A quadruped has four what?
18. At the 2008 Olympic Games, which event began its competition at Beijing before the Opening ceremony?
19. Pol Pot became the de facto leader of which country in mid-1975, forcing city dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects, toward a goal of "restarting civilization" in "Year Zero", which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people, approximately 21% of the population?
20. What do Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill, Athol Fugard and Frances Boothby have in common?
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