General Knowledge Quiz 35

1

The online game Fortnite recently released an update which features a collaboration with the longest running sitcom on television, which TV show is that?

2

The Fate of Ophelia, Taylor Swift’s most recent offering, tells the story of a character in which of Shakespeare’s plays? 

3

The subject of a new documentary on HBO, the infamous Pusher Street, where drugs, particularly cannabis, are illegally bought, can be found in which Nordic capital city? 

4

Name these four people, born on November 20th

5

Prominently featured in “Crazy Rich Asians,” Changi is Singapore’s super-modern… what?

6

Vy is the national Public transport company of which Northern European country?

7

What classic Russian novel written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1878, begins “Happy families are all alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way…”?

8

Name these six empires

9

Which country has the most territory in the Arctic Circle?

10

What is the only country in the world whose name, in English,ends with the letter H?

11

Name the four musicals where these songs feature.

12

On September 12th, 1962, US President John F Kennedy announced in a speech what ambitious plan to be achieved before the end of the decade?

13

Born on July 6th, 1945, in London, Ilyena Lydia Mironoff became one of Britain’s best known actresses playing parts in many award winning films. She is still active today appearing in a film about to be released directed by Kate Winslet. By what name is she better known by?

14

Identify the breeds of these six sharks

15

The Vatican is the least populated sovereign state in the world with a population of 882, which Pacific island nation is the second smallest with a population of just under 11000 people, this country is the 189th state to be recognised by the UN on September 5th, 2000. 

16

Flags, tabs, and page markers: Just a few of the mission-adjacent spinoffs of what ubiquitous product that launched in 1980?

17

Teaching us the difference between the two fields, the “Da Vinci Code” featured symbologist Robert Langdon tag-teaming with cryptologist WHO Neveu?

18

Name these four characters created first for Comic Books. 

19

Harper Lee’s controversial “Go Set a Watchman” was published in what year that was the year *before* she died?

20

Chemically speaking, Boron would be an apt alternative title. Which 1997 film?

21

The writer Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry , Hugh Laurie and all of the members of Monty Python were members of the Footlights comedy sketch association, was this association based in Oxford or Cambridge University?

22

Three mashups, three classical pieces of music and three pop songs. Name the composers and the artists who performed the songs