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General Knowledge Quiz 1019 (20 MCQs)

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1. What publication did Americans DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace, later wealthy philanthropists, start in 1922 shortly after their marriage?
2. What phenomenon was discovered by Frenchman Joseph Fourier in 1824, reliably experimented on by Irishman John Tyndall in 1858, and first reported quantitatively by Swede Svante Arrhenius in 1896?
3. Which country was the first to legalise same-sex marriage as a result of a referendum?
4. What is the name for the phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere?
5. What part of the body produces insulin?
6. Which of these was a slogan for Coca Cola?
7. Who emigrated to the USA in 1842, co-founded a detective agency in Chicago in 1850, and played an influential role in the founding of the US Secret Service?
8. Titan is a moon of which planet?
9. What was the stage name of Ellen Naomi Cohen, who, after being a member of "The Mamas & The Papas", had a successful solo career until she was found dead in London, apparently from a heart attack, after 2 weeks of a sold-out season at the Palladium?
10. What is vexillology?
11. In the early 19th century Madagascar, until it claimed independence in 1960, was part of what country's colonial empire?
12. Among NATO members, which is the only one with no standing army?
13. Which of these is a small chain of islands that connects Sri Lanka to southern India?
14. Which war, engineered by Bismarck, included the siege and surrender of Paris and ended in the union of German states with William I as emperor?
15. Where do the waters of the Danube rise?
16. What clothing item made of synthetic material was first sold in Wilmington Delaware in 1939?
17. In 1346, Edward III and his son the Black Prince were repeatedly attacked by French forces in which forest?
18. Of whom did the Greek philosopher Plutarch write "Plato admits 4 sorts of flattery, but she had 1, 000" ?
19. Gibraltar was ceded to the UK by Spain in 1713 and although now semi-autonomous is still under UK government; it has been a strategic advantage to the UK at a number of times, which is NOT one of these?
20. The Marowijne (or Maroni) River forms the eastern border of which country?
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