General Knowledge Quiz 892 (20 MCQs)

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1. In which country is Lake Como?
2. What genre is the British television series "Spitting Image" ?
3. For a point in mathematics, what describes a set of points containing it where one can move in any direction away from that point without leaving the set?
4. The killing of 58-year-old Robert Krentz and his dog, shot on 27 March 2010 on his ranch roughly 19 miles (31 km) from the Mexican border, led to increased public support for a bill to combat illegal immigration in which US State?
5. The name given to a group of which of these is a rafter, a gobble or a flock?
6. The Pantanal in the south of South America is known as the world's largest what?
7. Which of these people married Spanish film actor, film director, film producer and singer Antonio Banderas in May 1996?
8. The 12th century French poet ChrΓ©tien de Troyes is credited with introducing which figure into legend and literature?
9. What is the name of a musical form and genre created within the African-American communities in the deep south of the USA at the end of the 19th century?
10. The critically acclaimed, but only 2-season, American TV series "Lot 49" (2018-19), described by one critic as "a fantastic puzzle of a series", references a book by which writer?
11. The Great Barrier Reef lies off which country?
12. What was the subject of the 2017 Fairbanks Declaration
13. Thursday 4 May 1780 saw the first running of which annual horse race for three-year old colts?
14. In general, shallow seas are seen as marginal or inland extensions of ocean with average depths of less than how much?
15. Which UK TV series, set in Peckham, London, over 7 years chronicled the attempts of an ambitious market trader and his younger brother to get rich?
16. In which city are O'Connell Street, known as 'Sackville Street' until 1924, and O'Connell Bridge, known as Carlisle Bridge until the early 1880s, which were renamed for Daniel O'Connell, a nationalist leader of the early 19th century?
17. Which animal character, who first appeared on film in 1933, was conceived by Merian C Cooper and created by Willis O'Brien?
18. When the Lyttelton Railway Tunnel was completed in New Zealand in 1867 it was what?
19. Which of these countries has coastline on the English Channel, the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean Sea?
20. When was the eastern part of Australia claimed by Great Britain?