General Knowledge Quiz 935 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who was exiled to Siberia three times, was active in the plot that overthrew Kerensky in 1917, and became Secretary of the Russian Communist Party?
2. Who wrote "Auld Lang Syne" in 1789?
3. What are muslin and chenille?
4. Do-si-do is a term used in what activity?
5. What does an ichthyologist study?
6. What is the name for a rotating rod with oblong lobes sticking out of it, that is fitted in a car's engine block?
7. Geologically speaking, where would you go to stand on land at the southernmost point of the North American continental plate?
8. After gaining independence from the UK in 1970 the Republic of Fiji was a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. How many years did that last?
9. Who or what are the competitors in the main race run every May between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado, USA?
10. What is haloumi?
11. What 21, 196 km (13, 171 mi) long feature has been built, dismantled, ignored, re-built, breached, abandoned and is currently serving mainly as a largely ruined tourist attraction?
12. Which 1946 song did Ethel Merman introduce, which was almost immediately covered by Betty Hutton and Dinah Shore?
13. A "bodice ripper" is a type of what?
14. What is the symbol for a 60th wedding anniversary?
15. What is the nickname of the Australia national rugby league team?
16. What is the name of mid-ocean ridge which separates much of north America from Africa and Europe?
17. Vishnu and Shiva are gods in which religion?
18. In the TV series "Red Dwarf", Dave Lister, the one surviving human woken from suspended animation 3 m years after his mining space ship's radiation catastrophe, had what job on the ship?
19. In 1984 Sir Paul McCartney from Wings and The Beatles wrote, produced and starred in a film; what was it called?
20. What was the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" ?