Mixed General Knowledge Trivia

The American Film Institute's 2000 list '100 Funniest American Movies of All Time' ranked 'Some Like It Hot' (1959) as number one. This Billy Wilder comedy starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon topped the list.

The correct spelling is 'onerous' (option C), meaning burdensome or difficult to bear. The word comes from Latin 'onus' meaning burden. Options A, B, and D are all misspelled variations.

Eggs Florentine specifically requires spinach (option D) as the key ingredient - the 'Florentine' designation in cuisine indicates the presence of spinach, named after Catherine de' Medici who introduced spinach to French cuisine when she married the French king.

In Hearts, 'Shooting the Moon' is a high-risk strategy where a player attempts to take all hearts and the Queen of Spades in one hand, giving everyone else 26 points instead of receiving 26 themselves. This term is unique to Hearts and not used in other trick-taking games.

Biennial is the correct spelling for an event occurring every two years. The other options (binneal, binnial, beinnial) are misspelled variations. This is a straightforward spelling/word recognition question.

'The Killer Angels' (1974) is a historical novel about the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975 and was later adapted into the film 'Gettysburg'. The book focuses on the commanders from both sides who fought at this pivotal battle.

Pip, Estella (not 'Stella' as written in the question), and Miss Havisham are central characters in Charles Dickens' 'Great Expectations' (1861). The question contains a typo - the character is named Estella, not Stella. Option A also has a typo: 'Copperfeild' should be 'Copperfield'. This is classic Dickens literature.

Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American to win an Academy Award for acting, winning Best Supporting Actress in 1940 for her role as Mammy in 'Gone with the Wind' (1939). This was a historic milestone in Hollywood, though she faced segregation at the ceremony. Sidney Poitier later became the first African-American to win Best Actor (1964).

'Schindler's List' (1993) is Steven Spielberg's black and white Holocaust drama about Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved over 1,000 Jews by employing them in his factories. The film won 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. 'Life is Beautiful' is a different Italian film about the Holocaust.

While the question incorrectly states De Niro played Pacino's father, The Godfather Part II is the correct answer because De Niro plays young Vito Corleone (father of Pacino's Michael) in the flashback sequences. They never appeared together in this film though.

Scrimshaw is the traditional art of carving and engraving on whale teeth and baleen, practiced by sailors on whaling ships. It's most associated with sperm whale teeth but can use other marine mammal ivory.

George Bernard Shaw wrote Saint Joan (1923), a play based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Shaw portrays her as a proto-Protestant and nationalist heroine, reflecting his own views on religion and politics.

Hamlet has the most lines of any Shakespearean character with approximately 1,560 lines in the play named after him. Iago comes second with around 1,100 lines in Othello. Richard III and Othello have fewer lines respectively.

The Norwegian band A-ha recorded 'The Living Daylights,' the title song for the 1987 James Bond film of the same name starring Timothy Dalton. This was the 15th Bond film and A-ha's theme became a major hit. The other options are Bond films from different eras: Moonraker (1979), Goldfinger (1964), and A View to a Kill (1985) which had Duran Duran, not A-ha.

The island of Monte Cristo is located in the Tyrrhenian Sea between Corsica and mainland Italy, approximately 2.5 kilometers off the Italian coastline. It's part of the Tuscan Archipelago and belongs to Italy. Alexandre Dumas's famous novel 'The Count of Monte Cristo' (1844) used this real island as a key setting, though the fictional version differs significantly from the actual small island.

The G-20 was established in 1999 following the Asian financial crisis as a forum for finance ministers and central bank governors from major economies to discuss international economic issues. The first G-20 meeting occurred in 1999 in Berlin, Germany. It was created to expand beyond the G-7 and include more representative emerging economies.

Despite its name, the G-20 actually consists of 19 individual countries plus the European Union, making 20 members total. The members are: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, UK, USA, and the EU (represented by the European Commission and European Central Bank).

New Zealand is not a member of the G-20. The G-20 includes major economies from all regions, but New Zealand (despite being a developed OECD economy) has never been a member. The other options listed - Brazil, India, and Turkey - are all founding members of the G-20. The membership has remained stable since 1999, with the EU being the 20th member.

India served as Chair of the G-20 in 2002 when the Finance Minister, Yashwant Sinha, chaired the meetings. India has since hosted the G-20 summit in 2023 under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, but the question asks specifically about when India 'acted as Chair' in the G-20's early years, which was 2002.

Tamil actor Thengai Seenivasan holds the record for acting in the most films in a single year - he appeared in 85 films in 1983-84, primarily as a character actor and comedian. The other options are legendary Tamil cinema figures but don't hold this specific record: Sivaji Ganesan and Rajinikanth were lead actors with fewer annual releases, and Manorama (also a character actor) had prolific output but not the record.