General Knowledge Quiz 102 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is a square-mouthed estuary on the northwest edge of East Anglia, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire on the east coast of England?
2. What does "feng shui" mean literally?
3. What was the first satellite put into orbit by the USA?
4. Which peninsula has the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west and the Black Sea to the north, and is separated from Europe by the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus?
5. Which Irish playwright was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance by the French government for his efforts in fighting the German occupation as part of the French resistance in World War II?
6. What are maras?
7. Which was the last drama film to feature the work of veteran American actor and comedian Zero Mostel?
8. The Malvaceae family of plants not only includes marshmallows, the ancient source of a popular herbal sweet, but also ..... ?
9. Where is The Bridge of Sighs?
10. The unit of electrical resistance was named after whom?
11. Which were the last Olympic Games in which East Germany took part as a country?
12. In which of these places is tundra most likely to be found?
13. Chaminda Vaas bowled a hat trick for Sri Lanka in his first 3 deliveries against Bangladesh in which Cricket World Cup?
14. What convex three-dimensional homogeneous body which, when resting on a flat surface, has just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium?
15. Up to 1974, the title of "Negus" was used for the traditional rulers of what country?
16. What is NASA's craft called Ingenuity?
17. The Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt is a statue of a reclining mythical creature with a lion's body and the head of a what?
18. Ira Gershwin, the lyricist for most of George Gershwin's songs, was what relation to George?
19. What is a synonym for the English word "nick" ?
20. Whom did the Lady of Shalott, in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1832 poem, see in her mirror which made her break her enchantment and bring down the curse from which she died?