General Knowledge Quiz 9 (20 MCQs)

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1. In 1990, who became the first son and father to play on the same Major League Baseball team at the same time (the Seattle Mariners), and the only father and son pair to hit back to back home runs?
2. According to the New International Version of the Christian Bible, "the love of money is a root of all kinds of ..... " what?
3. Which landlocked country in Southeast Asia is bordered by Burma, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand?
4. What was the name of the US policy to transport suspect terrorists to other countries for interrogation?
5. The 1997 film, "The Castle", portrays a household reacting to a developer's threat to acquire their property compulsorily in order to extend an airport. Where is it set?
6. With what activity is Dame Clara Butt associated?
7. What is sumo?
8. What is the dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada that was completed in 1935?
9. Where was the venue for the Commonwealth Games in 2010?
10. The trilogy of plays known collectively as "Passion Play" (2005-2013) was written by whom?
11. What was the set of industry censorship guidelines which governed the production of the vast majority of US motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968?
12. Where are the Enets and Nenets (or Samoyed) nomadic peoples based?
13. Where would you find a major domo?
14. Where was Christopher Columbus born?
15. The fictional town of Denton in the Midlands was the setting for which British TV series?
16. What country, after having governed it for 155 years, transferred its sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997?
17. In the third century CE, politician, geographer, writer, and cartographer Pei Xiu was the first in China recorded as describing what in full?
18. Which American lexicographer also published a popular and influential speller, grammar book and reader for elementary age students?
19. Maynard James Keenan, frontman of the alt-rock group Tool, is also an accomplished what?
20. Which of these describes a boisterous, knockabout style of humour?