General Knowledge Quiz 871 (20 MCQs)

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1. What fluid results from lachrymation?
2. What contest takes place when two teams pull at opposite ends of a rope?
3. Where is the muscle group called "quads" found?
4. Which of these mountains is in the Swiss Alps?
5. What is the popular name of light green apples that originated in Australia in 1868 from a chance seedling propagated by Maria Ann Smith?
6. What word best describes a triangle where all angles are less than 90 degrees?
7. In medicine, the suffix "-itis" means the presence of what?
8. In 1936, prototypes of a car called "strength through joy", with a round shape and air-cooled, flat-four, rear-mounted engine, appeared and was developed to become which car that is still recognisable?
9. What genre is the UK TV series "8 Out Of 10 Cats" ?
10. Who composed, and sang, the love song "My Heart Will Go On" which was featured in an epic American film in 1997?
11. The cocktails Algonquin, Blood and Sand, Bronx, Crystal Bronx, Chocolate Soldier, Gibson, Income Tax, Man O'War, Martinez, Martini, Manhattan, Mephisto, Pall Mall, Rob Roy and Satan's Whiskers all contain what?
12. The government in the UK 1935 to 1945, leading up to the partition of India in 1947, and from 1951 afterwards was Conservative; what was the UK government which saw the partition into effect and who led it?
13. Where in the human body is the coccyx?
14. What is the component in grasses, wood, and algae which is used to produce ethanol as a biofuel?
15. In the 1984 Winter Olympics Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean set what never-to-be-repeated record?
16. Which country was proclaimed a People's Republic on 1 October 1949, following the defeat of forces led by Chiang Kai-shek?
17. AndrΓ©-Jacques Garnerin carried out what feat on 22 October 1797 at Parc Monceau, Paris?
18. Wild Bill Hickok is a character in which musical?
19. In which decade was Queen Elizabeth II born?
20. Who led his troops to victory against Guthrum the Dane's Great Heathen Army at the Battle of Edington?