General Knowledge Quiz 942 (20 MCQs)

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1. What was the first name of Mrs Dalloway, a fictional character created by Virginia Woolf?
2. Members of which family were, at various times, Kings or Emperors of Germany, Austria, Rome, Hungary, Spain and Bohemia between 1273 and 1918?
3. When did the European Space Agency launch its first successful rocket, Ariane I?
4. Where is the Torres del Paine National Park, designated in 1978 as a World Biosphere Reserve?
5. When was the first annual World Championship for "Magic:The Gathering" held?
6. The Hapsburg dynasty originated in which country?
7. Hell's Angels are associated with what type of transport?
8. What French landmark was almost consumed by fire in 2019?
9. In 2009 Iceland underwent its greatest emigrations since 1887, as a result of what?
10. Who designed Britain's first atomic bomb, which was exploded aboard HMS Plym in the Monte Bello Islands in October 1952?
11. Who is the co-director and co-writer of British television shows with Ricky Gervais?
12. Which of these is a lighthouse on a rocky island off the coast of Cork?
13. Which guitarist collaborated with David Bowie on his music projects from 1988 to 1999?
14. What genus of about 70-75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia and North and South America are mostly shrubs 1 to 3 metres tall, though some are small trees, and others are lianas reaching up to 30m by climbing trees?
15. Why might a medical practitioner speak of fomes or fomites with concern or warning?
16. Where is the town of Asbestos?
17. The first Commonwealth Games, then called the British Empire Games, was held where, in 1930?
18. After public outrage over a painting by Goya of a nude woman ("the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art"), he refused to paint clothes on her, and created a new painting of the same woman in the same pose, clothed. The paintings are known as "The Nude ..... '' what and "The Clothed ..... " what?
19. In 2022 gymnast Simone Biles was awarded what?
20. What is the nickname of Nike's company logo?