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General Knowledge Quiz 1138 (20 MCQs)

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1. What saline basin in Central Asia, once the world's fourth largest lake with an area of 68, 000 square kilometres (26, 000 sq miles), has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s when the rivers feeding it were diverted by irrigation projects?
2. Where was the French open tennis championship held in 1928?
3. Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north are known as what?
4. In what language does the word "taonga" mean "treasure" or "treasured possession" ?
5. Mathematicians or code breakers from what country were the first to break the codes in the Enigma machines used by the German military from the 1920s to the 1940s?
6. What material is the narwhal's horn?
7. How does a traditional military bugler change pitch?
8. Where was film actor James Mason born?
9. The Books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are collectively known as what?
10. What was the occupation of the George Eliot character of Silas Marner?
11. What is the largest island administered by the People's Republic of China, which is due east of Vietnam?
12. Which of these is a French liqueur made in the town of Voiron, which composed of distilled alcohol flavoured with 130 herbal extracts and is named after the monastery where it was formerly produced?
13. What was named after American frontiersman James Bowie?
14. Why was the colour pink, instead of the traditional red, officially adopted for the cricket balls used for the inaugural day-night test in Australia in 2015?
15. In 2020, choreographers Geeta Kapoor and Terence Lewis became two of the judges of what TV show?
16. What was the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by Germany in World War II?
17. In 1822 Brazil declared its independence from what European power?
18. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays both of the twins, separated after the death of their parents, in which 1991 film?
19. Whose remains, after he died in 1506 at Valladolid, Mexico, were taken to San Domingo then to Havana, and then, in 1898, to Seville in Spain?
20. The Australian city of Hobart is on which river?
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