General Knowledge Quiz 939 (20 MCQs)

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1. In the open-source server-side web application framework known as ASP NET, what does the "P" stand for?
2. What substance is Uluru / Ayers Rock in Australia made of?
3. Britain's largest suspension bridge crosses which river?
4. Which Hungarian-born actor acted in films from 1917 to his death in 1956, and is best known for playing the title role in the 1931 film "Dracula" ?
5. What is the world's largest inland body of water?
6. Which of these is the cleaner most likely successfully to decontaminate surfaces exposed to a norovirus?
7. In 1968, who was the first African American woman to be elected to the US Congress?
8. What does "savoir faire" mean?
9. In 1983 British athlete Ayodele (Daley) Thompson simultaneously held Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games titles in what sport?
10. The plot of the 1959 film "Some Like It Hot", starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, is triggered by what event?
11. Which French composer wrote a large number of works including over 90 songs and the opera "Pénélope" ?
12. Who was the last English monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty?
13. What are the bottom-most 3 to 5 fused vertebra of the backbone called?
14. What was the first mission that returned lunar samples from the Moon to Earth?
15. What continent is described as having a Horn?
16. The Jake Gaudaur Veterans' Trophy, presented annually to the Canadian Football League player "who best demonstrates the attributes of Canada's veterans in times of war, peace and military conflict", was first awarded in 2010 to Mike McCullough who played for which team?
17. What holds the records as the world's longest-running science fiction television show?
18. Which one of these films did director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer Stanley Kubrick NOT direct?
19. Which trophy, damaged by Benjamin Peri Nathan with a sledgehammer in March 1997, was restored to its original condition, free of charge, by London silversmiths Garrard & Co., who had made it in 1848?
20. The first Olympic flag, presented to the IOC at the 1920 Olympics by the city of Antwerp, Belgium, was lost until 1977. Where had it been?