General Knowledge Quiz 945 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where and when is "Fiddler on the Roof" set?
2. After a kangaroo court trial in 1989 which European leader and his wife were then executed by firing squad?
3. What is a tabor?
4. What is the name of the target ball in bowls?
5. "Fawlty Towers" was written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, who played main characters. Which character did Connie Booth play?
6. What inspired a February 2017 cartoon on the front page of a weekly German news magazine of the new President of the USA holding the dripping head of the country's Statue of Liberty and a bloody knife?
7. In "The Day of the Triffids", a novel by John Wyndham made into a 1962 film and TV series in 1981 and 2009, what affliction strikes most of humanity?
8. Making their record debut in 1989, what were Squire, Mani, Reni and Brown collectively known as?
9. Formula One world champions James Hunt, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button are all from where?
10. The Boston Tea Party, where tea was tipped into the harbour to protest taxation, precipitated what historical event?
11. What organisation did Hasan-i Sabbah found in 1090?
12. With the history of which of these countries is Rasputin associated?
13. Which US TV programme was broadcast regularly from the Ed Sullivan Theatre?
14. For the lead role in his film "A Fistful of Dollars", director Sergio Leone thought about approaching Henry Fonda, and then made realistic approaches to Charles Bronson and James Coburn. Whom did he approach after they both turned him down?
15. Which adaptation of a Tom Sharpe novel was a TV series of the same name, released in the UK in 1985, which starred George Cole, David Suchet, Geraldine James, Julia McKenzie, and Jimmy Nail?
16. In what year was the German Empire, including all the German states except Austria, with the King of Prussia as emperor, founded?
17. What is the name of the skyscraper in Saudi Arabia, one of the world's 5 tallest buildings, that is in Riyadh?
18. Cortaderia selloana, a grass of the family Poaceae native to southern South America, is more widely known as what?
19. Who was the literary character behind the play Man of La Mancha?
20. What does an anthropologist study?