General Knowledge Quiz 151 (20 MCQs)

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1. According to Christian legend, who, as Jesus was bearing the cross to Golgotha, offered him her veil to wipe his brow?
2. What would be most useful in playing a game of backgammon?
3. What does the "T" stand for in the iniitals of the US agency known as the "NTSB" ?
4. Which of these words is used to refer to a female swan?
5. The Irtysh River in Asia is the main tributary of what major river, the seventh longest globally?
6. What country has the official languages Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu and its own Sign Language?
7. What is the more common name for the white crystalline salt called hydrated sodium pyroborate?
8. The British child-killer, Mary Bell, a close ally of Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer, and the commandant of the Sobibรณr and Treblinka extermination camps, Franz Stangl, were all subjects of books by which biographer, historian, and investigative journalist?
9. Who composed the score for the 1948 UK film "Scott of the Antarctic" ?
10. Who published an autobiography in 2020 titled "A Promised Land" ?
11. A second century CE Roman, a Lusitanian Spaniard by birth, became the highest paid athlete ever, as what?
12. Which of these is an area in France?
13. What is the name of the largest city in Morocco and the Maghreb, Morocco's chief port, and one of the largest financial centres in Africa?
14. The Mississippi River is on what continent?
15. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier became better known as who?
16. In ballet, which of these terms refers to the position of the body supported on one leg, with the other leg extended behind the body with the knee straight?
17. According to an old English poem, who was slain by a dragon?
18. Uruguay is mostly what type of land?
19. Which word best meets the definition "The incline of the stage floor (or the theatre floor) away from the horizontal (lower at the downstage end)" ?
20. What is the name of the line separating the numerator and denominator of a fraction if it is written as a horizontal line?