General Knowledge Quiz 145 (20 MCQs)

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1. With the history of which of these countries is Josip Broz Tito associated?
2. What men's golf tournament was held on The Hills Golf Course, a privately owned golf course in an area known as Arrowtown, in 2007, 2009 and 2010?
3. What is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel whereby tightly folded balloons are passed into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size using water pressures some 75 to 500 times normal blood pressure (6 to 20 atmospheres)?
4. Which country has the longest straight stretch of railway line?
5. Where are the Straits of Bonifacto?
6. Which award winning building was built directly underneath Waterloo Bridge, London, in the 1980s and has stalactites (from water leaking through the Bridge) growing in it?
7. Where are most of the oil, or bituminous, sand deposits in Canada?
8. Who wrote the songs "Suzanne", "First We Take Manhattan" and "Everybody Knows" ?
9. Who was Formula One Champion driver from 2010 to 2013?
10. According to the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church, how many "stations" are there in "The Stations of the Cross" ?
11. What did the country which later became Zambia and Zimbabwe but was at that time led by the European Ian Smith proclaim in 1965?
12. Which of these is a term used to describe a pathological fear of contact with dirt, to avoid contamination and germs?
13. In tennis, the annual Grand Slam season consists of the French Open, the U.S. Open, the Wimbledon Championship and which other?
14. Which King of Macedon created one of the largest empires in ancient history between 336 and 323BC, including most of the city-states of mainland Greece and the (then) Persian-ruled Asia Minor?
15. What number do the numbers on opposite sides of a standard cube-shaped die always add up to?
16. With what activity is Italian Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni associated?
17. In the fifth year of his reign the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV, or Amenophis, changed his name to what?
18. What would one normally do with veloutรฉ?
19. Before becoming president of the USA, Theodore Roosevelt was vice president to whom?
20. Which of these is another word for the thumb?