General Knowledge Quiz 109 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the national language of Australia?
2. On which river are the coffee-coloured Kaieteur Falls?
3. The second incarnation of which organisation was formed at a meeting led by William J Simmons on the top of Stone Mountain, Georgia, in 1915?
4. Which of these was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist who did not begin his career as an artist until he was about 27 and committed suicide at the age of 37, yet produced more than 2, 000 pieces, including around 900 paintings and 1, 100 drawings and sketches, including portraits, landscapes, and sunflowers?
5. Which English composer wrote "The Planets", "Somerset Rhapsody" and the ballet "The Perfect Fool" ?
6. What territory was sold by Russia under Tsar Alexander II in 1867, for about 1.9Β’ per acre ($ 4.74/km2), a total of US$ 7.2 million?
7. Which of these is one of the 7 letters used by the Romans to signify numbers?
8. The Olympic torch travelled within South Korea in the 2018 Winter Olympics by ways including sailboat, marine cable car, zip-wire, steam train, marine rail bike, yacht and a replica of what specialised antique warship?
9. US baseball player Pete Rose was accused in 1989 of (and he confessed in 2004 to) what, that has made him ineligible to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
10. Thomas Hughes wrote about the schooldays of which of the Browns?
11. A full moon or a new moon at or close to its perigee (the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit) is often called what?
12. Which of these is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source?
13. Who wrote the 6 "Brandenburg Concertos" ?
14. Where was the TV series Stargate-SG1 filmed?
15. In astronomy, what is the word applied to the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line?
16. Tofu is made by coagulating what, and compacting the resulting curds into blocks?
17. In which sport is the Currie Cup offered?
18. Which of these is a master woodcarver, famous for his work with Christopher Wren?
19. At the 1992 Winter Olympic Games, New Zealand skier Annelise Coberger became the first what?
20. The name of Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula commemorates a landing in 1915 by what or who?