General Knowledge Quiz 962 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who invented the revolver?
2. Which avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque around 1906, revolutionized European painting and sculpture and inspired related movements in music and literature?
3. In which US state did the siege of the Alamo take place?
4. Which of these is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyses the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity?
5. What organ in the human body does the term amaurosis apply to?
6. These are the last lines of which play: "I made the last payment on the house today. Today, dear. And there'll be nobody home. We're free and clear. We're free. We're free ..... We're free ..... "
7. What process does fracking use to promote access to oil, natural gas, geothermal energy, or water from deep underground?
8. In which of these years did the Spanish Armada sail to attack England?
9. What were the women nicknamed "canary girls" in World War I in Britain?
10. Before he became a major criminal and one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives what was the occupation of the central character of the US TV series "The Blacklist" ?
11. The Straits of Florida flow between the Gulf of Mexico and where?
12. Which of these names refers to a Mexican ritual that involves 5 people climbing a 30 meter pole from which 4 launch themselves (tied with ropes) to the ground while one stays on top, dancing and playing a flute & drum?
13. Who is the 45th person to hold the post of President of the United States since it was established in 1789?
14. The 1961 film "The Misfits" was the last film made by Clark Gable and who else?
15. What award is the equivalent of the Oscars for live American theatre?
16. From which continent are native tribes and ethnic groups called the Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Amhara, Somali, Fula, Shona, Zulu, Hutu, Maasai, Tutsi and Nubians?
17. Which of these is a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C in the diet?
18. Which Winter Olympics sport has involved the use of a .30-06 Springfield?
19. What happens when Venus is said to be in "inferior conjunction" ?
20. What is the word for an itinerant tinsmith who mends household utensils?