General Knowledge Quiz 1140 (20 MCQs)

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1. Alongside the red cross and the red crescent symbols which identify relief societies for wounded soldiers, what further symbol was formally adopted in 2005?
2. When Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the 1983 World Figure Skating Championship with the world's first perfect scores and the routine "Barnum", who was a third member of their team?
3. What is the cube root of 64?
4. What was the surname of 20th century authors Victoria and Edward, who were brother and sister?
5. Which of these is the name for a group of magpies?
6. When was the repeal of the US federal law called the "Chinese Exclusion Act" (1882) which banned Chinese immigration?
7. What does the "e" stand for in Einstein's famous equation?
8. The national flag of which of these countries has a lion on it?
9. Which war ended as a result of peace negotiations at Panmunjom, completed on 27 July 1953?
10. According to the legend, Peeping Tom was looking at whom?
11. Plato and Xenophon are the most famous pupils of which Greek philosopher?
12. What is a form, sett, drey or nide?
13. In what year did Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reach the South Pole, the first known to do so?
14. What does "bona fides" mean?
15. Hawaii is in which ocean?
16. Which country, the capital of which is Monrovia, was founded by the American Colonisation Society in 1820 as a home for freed slaves?
17. Whose wife, Elin, gave birth to his son, Charlie, early in 2009?
18. In which state or states of Australia would you find the Nullarbor Plain?
19. What name was given to a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005?
20. Jean Louis is associated with what activity?