General Knowledge Quiz 164 (20 MCQs)

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1. To what country is the Shinto religion indigenous?
2. What office did James Schlesinger not hold in 1973 under US President Gerald Ford?
3. Tinnitus affects what part of the body?
4. Which Latin poet wrote "Satires", "Epodes", "Epistles" and "Carmen Seculare" ?
5. What is a dart board usually made from?
6. What is the name of the classic English horse race run at Epsom, the day before the Derby?
7. The first recorded fatality of a car accident in the USA was Henry Bliss, on 13 September 1899. Where was it?
8. What or who is the Mabinogion?
9. In Japan they are a symbol of luck, longevity and fidelity, and are white birds with black-tipped wings and throat plus what else?
10. When the USSR re-occupied Estonia, first in 1940 and then 1994 to 1991, what was one of the tools of its rule?
11. Which of these words can be applied correctly to 97% of all animal species?
12. Which illustrator, born in what is now Haiti, raised in France, and an immigrant to America at 18, turned early observations and a hobby into creating work which included a book which was published in Britain and which is now considered a classic?
13. For the 2020/2021 year the US Mint confirmed that the cost of manufacturing the cent and the nickel (the 5 cent coin) was what?
14. What metal instrument, 10 to 12 inches long, is used to unfasten knots and loosen rope strands for splicing?
15. The Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in north-western South Africa, is mainly what type of land?
16. What was patented in London by Ralph Wedgewood in 1806?
17. Marie Curie, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911), was born where?
18. The Ironman World Championship, which has been held annually in Hawaii since 1978, with an additional race in 1982, involves which sport?
19. In which sea is The Grenadines island chain?
20. Which US vice presidential candidate made "The Checkers speech", an address on TV and radio on 23 September 1952, which was an early example of a politician using television to appeal directly to the electorate?