General Knowledge Quiz 91 (20 MCQs)

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1. If something is called "tuppenny ha'penny" what is meant?
2. Three times F1 World Champion Niki Lauda was severely burnt in a crash on what track in the 1976 F1 World Championship?
3. The epitaph on whose tomb is followed by the deceased's own couplet: "Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it." ?
4. Which of these is a central concept in quantum physics?
5. With what sport are Donald Bradman, Stewie Dempster, Sid Barnes, Graeme Pollock, George Headley, and Herbert Sutcliffe associated?
6. What is a chaconne, or a passacaglia?
7. Where is the kind of water flow known as thalweg found?
8. At which UK General Election was Helen Grant elected, the Conservative Party's first black female MP?
9. What is one of the disciplines in which English artist Kate Tempest works?
10. Which British television series, presented by a wine writer and a co-presenter of a programme for car enthusiasts, tours around the UK sampling locally-made alcohol?
11. The short story writer Katherine Mansfield died in 1923 at the age of 34 from what?
12. Speculation about the possibility of a southern land mass has been around for at least 2, 000 years. When was the first recorded sighting of the Antarctic continent?
13. Belgian landscape and garden designer Jacques Wirtz specialised in sculpture using what medium?
14. What was abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833?
15. To whom anong these would Henry V, as he appears in William Shakespeare's play of the same name, have been able to talk in the period leading up to the play?
16. "Parturient" applies to something which is what?
17. The formula (X²)² is the same as which of these?
18. Who is reputed to have survived over 55 assassination attempts, the most notable of which (the only time in modern history when a Head of State has personally exchanged fire with a potential assassin) was in 1931?
19. Gamekeeping is the occupation of the title character in which of these?
20. Which was the last of these Woody Allen movies to be released?