General Knowledge Quiz 1072 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who was president of the USA during the American Civil War?
2. How old was New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko when she turned professional in 2013?
3. What is a "devil's coach horse" ?
4. Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, which country is completely surrounded by the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, which also divides it in two?
5. What is "schist" ?
6. The Council of Constance 1414-18 had the main purpose of ending the Three Popes Schism, and was convened by the Antipope John XXIII. John had two brothers who were sentenced to death for what?
7. N'Djamena is a city in which country?
8. What is the title of the 41 minute film of the Beatles first US concert?
9. What colour are Mickey Mouse's shoes?
10. Where are Southampton Island and the King George Islands?
11. Where is Cockaigne, or Cockayne?
12. What semi-autonomous unincorporated territory of New Zealand held referenda in 2006 and 2007 on self-determination?
13. In the equation "2 to the power of 3 = 8", 3 is the "what" of 8 to the base 2?
14. Goalkeeper Jens Ramme's debut for Dynamo Dresden was in the quarter-final of the 1985-86 European Cup Winners' Cup, when they were 3-1 up at half-time and he was brought on as a replacement. He let in six goals in 29 minutes:Dynamo lost. They were playing against which team?
15. What, in 1337, caused the Hundred Years' War between France and England?
16. What are onnagata?
17. What was Shoemaker-Levy 9, that crashed into Jupiter in 1994?
18. What is the only African country that has a coastline on both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?
19. What type of drink is vermouth?
20. In 1990 a strip of land seceded from its then parent country and called itself Transnistria, or Trans-Dniester; what is the parent country?