General Knowledge Quia 443

Questions

1. Which major South American country derives its name from the Latin word for silver?

2. 20. In the film series, what is the real first name of swashbuckling archaeologist and adventurer known as "Indiana" Jones?

3. Which American won gold medals in the 100m, 200m, long jump and the 4x100m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics?

4. Government buildings in which capital city were infamously burned to the ground by the British army during the War of 1812?

5. In the Looney Tunes cartoons, Taz was which kind of marsupial animal - native to an island state of Australia?

6. Which post-impressionist painter spent much of his later life in Tahiti and other islands of French Polynesia, producing many of his paintings before his death in 1903?

7. Lhasa is the capital of which former nation and current autonomous region of south-western China?

8. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, which rock bands' Greatest Hits is the highest selling album of all time, with over 38 million copies sold?

9. Tom Hanks won his second Best Actor Oscar in 1994 for Forrest Gump - for which film had he won his first Academy Award the year before?

10. 19. For the 2002 film The Pianist - which man became the youngest ever Best Actor winner, at the age of just 29?

11. Which Siberian lake - the deepest in the world - contains around 22-23% of all of the Earth's fresh surface water, more than all the American great lakes combined?

12. 3rd in line to the British crown, what is the Duke and Duchess and Cambridge's eldest child called?

13. In 2018, which country replaced Trinidad and Tobago as the least populated to play at a FIFA World Cup?

14. In 2004, which film directed by Peter Jackson matched Ben Hur's record of 11 Academy Awards?

15. In 1972, who became the first American president to ever visit the communist People's Republic of China?

16. After escaping Elba in 1814, to which island in the South Atlantic was Napoleon exiled following his defeat at Waterloo?

17. For the 2002 film The Pianist - which man became the youngest ever Best Actor winner, at the age of just 29?

18. In the film series, what is the real first name of swashbuckling archaeologist and adventurer known as "Indiana" Jones?

19. 11. Which man - the founder of Amazon - leapfrogged Bill Gates to top Forbes 2018 Billionaires List?

20. 3. Which American won gold medals in the 100m, 200m, long jump and the 4x100m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics?

21. 4. Government buildings in which capital city were infamously burned to the ground by the British army during the War of 1812?

22. 5. In the Looney Tunes cartoons, Taz was which kind of marsupial animal - native to an island state of Australia?

23. 6. Which post-impressionist painter spent much of his later life in Tahiti and other islands of French Polynesia, producing many of his paintings before his death in 1903?

24. 7. Lhasa is the capital of which former nation and current autonomous region of south-western China?

25. 8. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, which rock bands' Greatest Hits is the highest selling album of all time, with over 38 million copies sold?

26. 9. Tom Hanks won his second Best Actor Oscar in 1994 for Forrest Gump - for which film had he won his first Academy Award the year before?

27. 10. Which nation is due to host both the next Summer Olympics (2020) and the next Rugby World Cup (2019)?

28. 2. By what name was the city of Volgograd in Russia known from 1925-1961 (before that, it was known as Tsaritsyn)?

29. 12. Which major South American country derives its name from the Latin word for silver?

30. 13. Which Siberian lake - the deepest in the world - contains around 22-23% of all of the Earth's fresh surface water, more than all the American great lakes combined?

31. 14. 3rd in line to the British crown, what is the Duke and Duchess and Cambridge's eldest child called?

32. 15. In 2018, which country replaced Trinidad and Tobago as the least populated to play at a FIFA World Cup?

33. 16. In 2004, which film directed by Peter Jackson matched Ben Hur's record of 11 Academy Awards?

34. 17. In 1972, who became the first American president to ever visit the communist People's Republic of China?

35. 18. After escaping Elba in 1814, to which island in the South Atlantic was Napoleon exiled following his defeat at Waterloo?