General Knowledge Quiz 933 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where is the British TV series "The English" (2022) set?
2. Richmondtown is in which borough of New York?
3. Which of these titles is applied to someone who is in charge of a prison?
4. What 1956 film, that satirises the U.S. occupation of Japan following World War II, starred Glenn Ford & Marlon Brando?
5. Each team in the Oxford and Cambridge race which takes place near to each Easter on the River Thames is required to have what?
6. In 2005, Dan Wheldon became the first British competitor to win what event in over 30 years?
7. Bacha posh, whereby a family in which there are no sons may have a girl dress in characteristic male clothing and have her hair cut short, occupying a status in which she is treated as neither daughter nor son, is a cultural practice in areas of which country?
8. Which 2003 drama film, named after a painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and directed by Peter Webber, stars Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson & Cillian Murphy?
9. What is one of the unusual features of the 4 mile (over 6 km) long Shanay-timpishka River in Amazonian Peru?
10. In the UK, there is an annual celebration held on the evening of 5 November. What event does it commemorate?
11. What does the "G" in the World Championship CS:GO stand for?
12. What is a word for the heart, liver and lungs of a slaughtered animal?
13. In the lyric "If I were a rich man ..... ", from the musical "Fiddler on the Roof", what describes "were" grammatically?
14. In the southern hemisphere, when does the winter solstice occur?
15. For a proper fraction, the numerator is
16. City Of Dreams was the second casino owned by James Packer to open in which European ex colony?
17. Which of these wines comes from Germany?
18. What is the name of the Moslem prayer that adherents repeat 5 times daily?
19. Which is the style of music, characterised by staccato offbeat rhythms, and owing much to the influence of mento, jazz, ska and rhythm and blues?
20. Who was the second Stuart king on the English throne?