General Knowledge Quiz 837 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the subject of the "Zhou Bi Suan Jing", one of the oldest and most famous Chinese texts dating from the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC-256 BC), and added to into the Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 BC)?
2. During the 16th century Christian priests together with Spanish or Portuguese soldiers and adventurers destroyed almost all of the written "paper" records of what civilisation?
3. What was the capital of the Portuguese empire from 1808 to 1815?
4. Benedict Cumberbatch appears as the eponymous hero, created by Steve Ditko, in what 2016 superhero film?
5. Which British prime minister resigned as a result of the Suez Crisis?
6. What make of car is associated with Trevor Wilkinson?
7. What temperature is the equivalent of 0 degrees Kelvin?
8. The Cocos, Andaman and Nicobar Islands are an extended archipelago stretching north between the north-western tip of Indonesia and what other country?
9. The earliest work of Japanese history is attributed to Prince Shลtoku, who is said to have written the Tennลki and the Kokki in what century?
10. Who was the author of "Around The World In 80 Days" and "20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea" ?
11. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play US Marshalls investigating the disappearance of a psychiatric patient in the 1950s in which 2010 film directed by Martin Scorsese?
12. What was the height achieved at the 2012 Olympic Games, an Olympic record, by Reynaud Lavillennie to win the men's pole vault?
13. What do Bruce Banner, James Howlett and Selina Kyle have in common?
14. In 1907 American anthropologist and ethnographer Frances Densmore began fifty-plus years of studying and preserving what?
15. In the "Harry Potter" books, students board the train to Hogwarts at Platform 9+3โ„4. Which London railway station has erected a sign at a wall between tracks 9 and 10 to commemorate this?
16. When this trophy was first offered for award in the 1871-72 season of its sport, how many teams competed and what was the trophy?
17. A type of behaviour characterised by living together in mutigenerational colonies headed by one productive female, cooperative brood care, individuals with specialised non-transferable skills, is known as what?
18. Where is the National Monument known as McLear's Beacon, first established in 1844 and still used as a triangulation station by cartographers?
19. Which of these is not one of theatres that make up the British National Theatre complex on the South Bank, London?
20. What is the choking didymo, didymosphenia geminata, in waterways better known as?