General Knowledge Quiz 1211 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these animals is not a marsupial?
2. Where is the vast and deep depression known as Hellas Basin?
3. If a chemical process is anaerobic it means it is happening under what conditions?
4. What is the Tipitaka (sometimes called Tripitaka)?
5. An "elegant, organic, and rigorously logical" game of strategy developed in China more than 2, 500 years ago is called ..... ?
6. What band released the albums "Wild Life", "Red Rose Speedway", "At the Speed of Sound", "London Town" and Back to the Egg" between 1971 and 1979?
7. Which of these is an infectious disease with patches of inflammation on the skin?
8. In international flag signalling code, what is a rectangular flag centred with a white square?
9. What name was given to a trooper in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War?
10. Which delta blues musician wrote "Love in Vain", "Cross Road Blues", and "Rambling on My Mind" ?
11. What is the chemical symbol for Manganese?
12. The Nazi Party saw which of these people as one of its leading proponents?
13. Which father and son, 17th and 18th century composers, between them lived in Rome, Naples, Florence and Madrid and composed over 120 operas, 600 chamber cantatas, and 500 harpsichord sonatas?
14. What genus of bulbous flowering plants, native to the eastern Mediterranean region east to Iran and Turkmenistan has 3 species:litwinowii, orientalis and transcaspicus?
15. Which of these is NOT a common colloquial expression?
16. Black Bess, the horse of Dick Turpin (1706-39), would have been used to what phrase, if legend is to be believed?
17. In February 1578 the first Roman Catholic diocese was established in the country now known as what?
18. What can a nictitating membrane protect against?
19. The British Royal Mint that was established in the Tower of London in 1279 and moved to an adjacent site on Tower Hill in 1809 is now situated where?
20. The Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 was decisive in which conflict?