General Knowledge Quiz 1120 (20 MCQs)

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1. How many feet (metres) above sea level is the great saline lake known as Salton Sea in California, USA?
2. The Montreal Biodome in Montreal allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas. What was the building originally constructed for?
3. Who compiled the 5 volume "The Canon of Medicine", completed in 1025 and still in use as a standard medical textbook through the 18th century in Europe?
4. Canaletto is famous for his 18th century paintings of which city?
5. What sort of fish is in the Scandinavian dish called gravlax?
6. Which of these places is furthest from Chicago, Illinois, USA?
7. What are most corals formed from?
8. What are the symbols on a standard playing card, the number of which show the value of the card, called?
9. What song contains the lyrics "Steak Knife, Caro Shark, Con Job, Boot Cut ", "Dog Town, Blood Bath, Rib Cage, Soft Tail", "Black Jack, Dope Dick, Pawn Shop, Quick Pick" and "Song Bird, Main Line, Cash Back, Hard top" ?
10. Which of these is an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary?
11. What is the name of the calms and light baffling winds in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans?
12. What is the feature on the Moon which is named after the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon, and the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body?
13. When in 680 CE a part of a nomadic warrior people moved to the northeastern Balkans, defeated the Byzantine army and secured recognition from the Byzantine Empire, that began what?
14. The Jewish King Solomon was the son of whom?
15. Isaac Kwame Amuah, who in December 2010 turned himself in to South African police to face extradition charges in relation to accusations of rape from 1993 while he was a lecturer in the US, has what connection to Nelson Mandela?
16. What was the nickname of Lawrence Peter Berra, a former Major League Baseball player and manager who played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972?
17. What is often shouted by the first person to have a full card in a game of bingo?
18. Which of these firms, founded in 1835, is a prestigious maker of hand-made sporting rifles and shotguns, based in London, England?
19. Which English village, which grew from a tiny fishing hamlet in 1864, was completely drowned due to coastal erosion by 1921?
20. What term is applied to an animal or plant produced by crossing two different varieties?