New General Knowledge #1

What territorial overseas collectivity of France is situated near Newfoundland?

What is the name of the anthropomorphic white
Japanese Bobtail cat-inspired character with a red bow?

What Nobel Prize hasn't been awarded 19 years since its creation,
more times than any other Nobel Prize?

What is another name for the chemical element Tungsten?

What Irish novelist and poet is best known for Ulysses (1922)?

What is the NBA team that plays its home games at the United Center?

How do you call a male singer with a voice intermediate between tenor and bass?

Who is recognized to be the first known woman mathematician in history
and credited with writing three major treatises on geometry, algebra and astronomy?

Who was the scientist and Augustinian abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno
that is considered the founder of the modern science of genetics?

What is the prefix with the meaning “round about, around,” found in Latin loanwords?

Who is the Romanian gymnast who became the first in
Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal?

What is the country whose only border is with South Africa?

Who was the first female filmmaker to receive the
Palme d'Or for her acclaimed film The Piano (1993)?

What is the country that the Alaouite dynasty has been ruling since 1667?

What animal is a medium-sized, burrowing, anteater nocturnal mammal
native to Africa and the only living species of the order Tubulidentata?

Who is the Sabine-derived goddess of flowers
and of the season of spring in Roman mythology?

What country has the city of Putrajaya as its federal administrative centre?

Who was the South African singer and civil rights activist,
nicknamed Mama Africa, best known for the song Pata Pata?

What was was the largest Asian war in the 20th century?

Who is the eleventh managing director of the
IMF - International Monetary Fund (5 July 2011 - Present)?