General Knowledge Quiz 1118 (20 MCQs)

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1. What name for an army unit composed of New Zealand and Australian troops was applied to them in World War I?
2. Which of these is native to South America?
3. What is next in the sequence:Lima, Quito, Bogota ..... ?
4. As at 2022, who has won the most medals in Olympic Games since the modern Olympics began in 1896?
5. Which wars, from 1839 to 1842 and 1856 to 1860, were due to Britain smuggling goods from India into China in defiance of China's laws?
6. What organisation financed Henry Hudson's voyage when he explored much of what is now Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay in 1610?
7. What is apiphobia the fear of?
8. Who wrote "A History of Richard III" and "Utopia" ?
9. In 2016 Dubai, UAE, hosted the first international Grand Prix in what discipline?
10. Taiko are used in music of what kind?
11. The semi-autobiographical Canadian French language films "1981, or the year I became a liar", "1987" and "1991" trace events in the life of the director from the age of 11. Who is he?
12. Where would a catafalque be used?
13. How many languages does Bolivia recognise as official languages?
14. What type of show is the US/Canada TV series Stargate SG-1?
15. In 1991 talks between North and South Korea resulted in what?
16. Fashion designer Ozwald Boateng specialises in what?
17. The 2014 Man Booker Prize, the first to be open to any full length novel written in the English language and not just to those from the UK Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe, was awarded in October to which writer?
18. What was entertainment promoter Bill Graham's rock palace in operation from March 1968 to June 1971 at Second Avenue at East Sixth Street, New York City, New York, in the East Village area of the borough of Manhattan?
19. In 2015 pop artist Taylor Swift won a disagreement over pay with what organisation?
20. African and Indian elephants have a different number of nails on their feet. Respectively, they are ..... ?