General Knowledge Quiz 97 (20 MCQs)

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1. The US TV series, "Mrs America", centres on the struggles in 1970s America to do what?
2. Which professional surfer who died on 2 November 2010, the only surfer to have won a title at every venue on the ASP calendar, had won 3 world titles (2002, 2003, 2004) and as recently as 3 September 2010 had won the Billabong Pro in Tahiti?
3. Which of these dishes is named after a Napoleonic battle?
4. The letters "G I", when applied to dietary matters, stand for what?
5. Skier Jure Franko, from the host country, won his country's first Winter Olympics medal in which Games?
6. Which of these mountain ranges is mainly in the US state of California?
7. Which of these names is associated with reference books about ships and aircraft?
8. The two athletes, Rafer Johnson and Yang Chuan-Kwang, won gold and silver in the 1960 Summer Olympics in a long and extremely tight contest in what?
9. Which of these is a British entrepreneur and inventor of the slim-line electronic pocket calculator in 1972 and the ZX Spectrum series of computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s?
10. What beverage was introduced to England from China by the Dutch in 1645?
11. Charles Higson's book "Silver Fin" concerned the adventures of which fictional character as a teenager in the 1930s?
12. In what sport do the tests include an "away drive", "shedding", "singling", a "cross drive" and a "double lift" ?
13. Whose film career from 1940 to 1966 included starring roles in "Scaramouche", "Salome" and "Beau Brummell" ?
14. What is a caduceus?
15. What family name is next in the series Ivaniőević, Hewitt, Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, and Murray?
16. In the nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built", what was wrong with the cow?
17. What profession was Larry Nassar who was sentenced in the USA in December 2017 to 60 years in federal prison, in January 2018 to an additional 40 to 175 years in Michigan State prison, and in February 2020 to yet another 40 to 175 years in Michigan State prison?
18. It is in Rwanda, delivers 8.5 megawatts of power and is designed so that, from a bird's-eye view, it resembles the shape of the African continent; what is it?
19. What is the term for one of a pair of arched fibre tracts that join under the corpus callosum of the brain, or for the line of reflection of the conjunctiva from the eyelid to the eyeball, or for the annular recess around the outside of the cervix?
20. Which island is governed in the western half by Indonesia and is independent in the eastern half?