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General Knowledge Quiz 126 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these countries has a border with the Republic of Yemen?
2. Which of these are known to stabilise a coastline?
3. The volcano Mt Pinatubo is in which country?
4. In 2002 the World Hip Hop Championship, founded in 2002 and competed annually, does NOT have competitions specifically in which of these styles?
5. Why was the Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799 and a key to deciphering writing from ancient Egypt, so called?
6. Who was mayor of New York at the time of the attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001?
7. What is the oldest surviving book printed using movable metal type?
8. Which African country was never formally colonized, and resisted all kinds of European rule until 1920?
9. Which of these would you expect to find on a parachute?
10. Which virus, which interferes with the endothelial cells lining the interior surface of blood vessels and coagulation causing hypovolemic shock, first emerged in 1976 in Zaire and came to international attention in 1989 after a widely publicized outbreak in Virginia, USA?
11. Since 2010 what is played at the Commonwealth Games when an anthem for an English athlete is needed?
12. Where was the first international cyclo-cross championship race in 1924 held?
13. During the reign of the Tudors in England, what instrument was used to behead those executed by order of the monarch for treason?
14. The Japanese word, washoku, refers to what?
15. What makes soft drinks fizzy?
16. Who led the Dutch colony of New Netherlands in America until surrendering it to the British in 1664?
17. Hōkūleʻa, Star of Gladness, a double-hulled sailing canoe launched in 1975 in Hawai'I, has completed multiple voyages using exclusively Polynesian navigation techniques. What was its 2014 voyage?
18. The association Mensa International which aims to foster and research high intelligence is frequently known as Mensa; what would that name indicate in Spain?
19. Where is Panmunjom?
20. Askania-Nova is the first nature reserve, established in 1898, of which country?
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