General Knowledge Quiz 1034 (20 MCQs)

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1. What, in ancient Rome, was a "sudatorium" ?
2. When French politician Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès called in 1799 for "a sabre", what or who was his solution?
3. One of the tools proposed in detecting skin cancer is called what?
4. At the 1996 Olympics, what did Carl Lewis become the fourth person to do?
5. Which of these tools would an astronomer use in their research?
6. What is the overall subject of the sentence "UTC replaced GMT in most places in the world on 1 January 1972" ?
7. Who wrote the opera "The Magic Flute" ?
8. A pyroclastic flow from a volcano is called that, strictly speaking, because it what ..... ?
9. What war, begun in 1740 when Austrian Emperor Charles VI died and his daughter Maria Theresa came to the throne, involved attacks by Prussia, Bavaria, France, Spain, Sardinia and Saxony, and ended in 1748?
10. Which of these is a short haired odd-toed vegetarian mammal native to Central and South America and Southeast Asia?
11. What annual event, to have been held in 2008, was cancelled after al-Qaeda's murder of four French tourists on Christmas Eve in December 2007 in Mauritania?
12. What wine is named after a city in the south of Iran?
13. There were three state funerals in the USA in 12 months in 1963/64. Which of these was not one of them?
14. Which of these religions does not regard Jerusalem as a Holy City?
15. Who, according to the Sumerian king list, was the fifth king of Uruk around 2700 BC, and became the central character in one of the best known works of early literature, where he was described as two-thirds god?
16. Where does a grunion lay its eggs?
17. What is found in a banket?
18. Who was variously leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, of the World War II Yugoslav resistance movement, of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and until his death in 1980 Marshal of Yugoslavia?
19. Which of these has an Atlantic coastline?
20. What does "HM" mean, when referring to a Queen on the throne of the United Kingdom?