General Knowledge Quiz 985 (20 MCQs)

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1. Snowflake was the name of what albino animal that died in the Barcelona Zoo in 2003?
2. The series ran from 1985 to 1992, during that season won two Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Comedy Series, three Golden Globes for Best Television Series-Musical or Comedy, Emmys for each of its four stars, and continues to rerun. Which was the series?
3. Which of these songs is from "The Sound of Music" ?
4. The Homestake Experiment in the late 1960s was designed to observe what?
5. What do ethnologists call people occupying most of North Africa, after one of Noah's sons who is, according to legend, their ancestor?
6. All or part of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Greece and Turkey are often described as being in what?
7. What is Donald Duck's middle name?
8. What was Gregorian chant or plainchant developed for?
9. In which tennis event finals did Serena Williams notably lose to Naomi Osaka in 2018?
10. What is involved in a course Camarguaise, or course libre?
11. Which of these countries gained independence from France in 1953 and became an independent constitutional monarchy under King Norodom Sihanouk?
12. In a film script, what do the letters EXT mean?
13. Who gave Harry Potter his first kiss?
14. Banksy's 2015 work on the walls of a ruined building in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, depicts what?
15. The island of Alcatraz is closest to which of these cities?
16. To which astronomer and cosmologist is what became known as the "big bang theory", the currently leading cosmological theory as modified by George Gamow, attributed?
17. Why was the 2005 IBSF World Snooker Championship, due to be held in Pakistan, cancelled?
18. What was the official name of the first code of French civil law (published in 1804), given in 1807?
19. What is a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community?
20. Songhai Empire, more than 600 years old and from the 15th to the late 16th centuries one of the largest Islamic empires in history, was where?