General Knowledge Quiz 972 (20 MCQs)

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1. What equation is considered to be remarkable for its "mathematical beauty", because 3 basic arithmetic operations occur exactly once each (addition, multiplication, and exponentiation), and it links five fundamental mathematical constants:(the numbers 0, 1, π, e, and i)?
2. What is dialysis intended to do?
3. By what name is Abyssinia now known?
4. Standing on the highest peak in the Andes what country or countries could you see?
5. What group finances the LIV golf tour?
6. What US state borders both Kansas and Utah?
7. Guion "Guy" Bluford, Jr. made history as what in 1983?
8. John Muir is known as the father of which US national institution?
9. Which of these was a film starring Tom Hanks about the war between the Mujahideen in Afghanistan and the USSR?
10. What were the characters Simon and Simon in the US TV series (1981-89) of the same name?
11. Which of these is an American investigative journalist and author of several best-selling unauthorised "poison pen" biographies of celebrities and politicians, including Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family and "the Bush Dynasty" ?
12. "Coronation Street" is set in what suburb?
13. On 15 December 1940, whose remains (except for his heart, intestines and viscera) were transferred from Vienna to the dome of Les Invalides in Paris as a "gift" to France by Adolf Hitler?
14. What instrument is associated with Pablo Cassals?
15. The Snake River runs through Hells Canyon on the border of which two US states?
16. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. in 1949 by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, UK, US, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Canada and which other country?
17. In what country, between the 1950s and 1980, would one have found "Rusticated Youth" ?
18. What geographical feature is Bull Run, the site of a battle that was famously lost by the new Union army which included troops commanded by George Armstrong Custer, later General Custer?
19. In astronomical terms during the latter half of the 19th century what was Vulcan?
20. Who sang with the Wailers?