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General Knowledge Quiz 1108 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these countries is not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations?
2. The "Big Day Out" was what?
3. How many events were competed at the first World Championships in Athletics?
4. When Sir Edmund Hillary earned newspaper acclaim in 1953 in relation to Mt Everest what was he doing?
5. Who threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference on 14 December 2008?
6. In 2012 the X Games were held in the USA, together with Games at Tignes in France and Shanghai in China. Which of the following had not yet hosted an X Games?
7. The Belgian Revolution of 1830-31 resulted in the secession of Belgium from what country?
8. Fort Knox, home to the US Bullion Depository (the US gold reserves), the US Army Armor Center and the US Army Armor School, is in which state?
9. What language does the colloquialism "shufti" come from?
10. What chemical element with atomic number 55 is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of 28 $^\circ$C (83 $^\circ$F), and one of only five metals that are liquid at or near room temperature?
11. "Monkey bread" is the fruit of what tree, indigenous to the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to northern South Africa and Madagascar?
12. A drink dating from the 15th century and popular through to the 17th, was regarded as a health-giving drink and good for fevers. It contained curdled milk, sugar, spices and ale or other alcohol; what was it called?
13. Until the year 2000, how many US presidents had previously served as vice president?
14. What is the name for the decrease in size of tissue or an organ due to physiological change from old age, or lack of use, nutrition or nerve supply?
15. The uninhabited Malgas Island, or Bird Island, off the Western Cape of South Africa, is the largest breeding colony in the world of what?
16. In Japanese cuisine, what are "udons" ?
17. As the oceanic Pacific Plate subducts beneath the continental Okhotsk Plate, what does this create?
18. "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live", attributed to Socrates 5th century BCE, is an example of what figure of speech?
19. In 2015 Sebastian Coe, Baron Coe, became President of what international body?
20. The first Canadian province to adopt one of these officially was Nova Scotia in 1955, and now all provinces and territories (except Nunavut) and Cape Breton Island have officially adopted a ..... what?
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