General Knowledge Quiz 1082 (20 MCQs)

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1. Besides a back complaint, what else did John F Kennedy suffer from?
2. Where is the Republic of Karelia?
3. What does the "P" stand for in the CRISPR system used in gene-editing?
4. Which of these is a species of flatfish native to marine or brackish waters of the North Atlantic, Black Sea, Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?
5. An Iranian/Arabic word for wax, bitumen or asphalt is the stem for some senses of which English word?
6. After the ending of the Civil War in the USA in 1865, slavery was abolished in the south and many of the freed slaves were given voting rights; what is another result?
7. Some parts of the Amazon rainforest are being laid waste by activities, including deposits of mercury, as part of what?
8. Yaris Varoufakis first became well-known in Europe in 2015 in what capacity?
9. Who was assassinated by FranΓ§ois Ravaillac, a mentally unbalanced defrocked monk, on 14 May 1610?
10. Which of these boxers was the last to win an Olympic gold medal?
11. In the UK during the First World War, what did "Dora" mean?
12. What is produced by the cortex of supra-renal glands that stimulates the autonomic nervous system?
13. Who had their first cooking series on UK television in the 1970s?
14. The highly fertile land beside which South American river gives one type of sugar its name?
15. How many countries in South America have land which lies south of the equator?
16. In the James Bond film "Thunderball" who played Bond girl Domino Derval?
17. After World War II ended in Europe in 1945 when did rationing of food, clothing, petrol, etc (supplies restricted during and after the war) finally end in the last of the countries involved?
18. Who of these was a US senator for the state of New York from 2000 to 2008?
19. What name is used for the index of activity on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange?
20. What is the effect of mixing manganese dioixide with hydrogen peroxide?