General Knowledge Quiz 1008 (20 MCQs)

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1. The tiger is native to which continent?
2. When bidding in Auction Bridge, what suit has the highest value below "No trumps" ?
3. Which city, on the River Arno, is the capital of the region of Tuscany?
4. Which of these is a form of textile art, woven on a vertical loom?
5. Which national leader's 3 wives were Aurelia Tizón (married 1929) and Eva Duarte (married 1945) who both died of cancer, and Isabel Martínez (married 1961)?
6. Which of these is an ape that occurs in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia and north to southern China, including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java, and differs from great apes in being smaller and pair-bonded, in not making nests, and in certain anatomical details in which it more closely resembles a monkey than great apes do?
7. Which play's characters comprise two married couples called Honey and Nick, and Martha and George?
8. The ports of Astrakhan and Baku are on which body of water?
9. What was invented in the 1940s by Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, who was building magnetrons for radar sets?
10. Which Indian citizen won a Nobel Prize in 1979?
11. A character from the films "Beetlejuice" and one in several in the Harry Potter series have names which suggest stars from which constellation?
12. What is the title of Luxembourg's Head of State?
13. Which car company, in 1986, commissioned "Cars", a series of artworks to track the evolution of its designs, from Andy Warhol?
14. In what field is or was the art of Ralph Steadman, Thomas Nast, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson usually expressed?
15. In surnames, e.g. Fitzwilliam, FitzGerald, Fitzherbert & Fitzhenry, what does "Fitz-" mean?
16. What island group may be described as a triangle with its corners at Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island, including the island groups Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Niue?
17. What is a characteristic of the moon, Phoebe?
18. The Rance Barrage is the first example of what?
19. Tijuana and San Diego are on either side of what?
20. Maynard James Keenan is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and winemaker, known as the singer and primary lyricist of several rock bands. Which is NOT one of those bands?