General Knowledge Quiz 165 (20 MCQs)

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1. The animal has had legal protection in its country since 1895, and is the only living member of the more than 200 million year old order Rhynchocephalia. What is it?
2. When in trouble, which of these characters might reach for a utility belt?
3. Which of these ships was built last?
4. What is a disease of the bone, estimated to affect 2-3 million across Tibet, north-eastern to south-western China, South Siberia, and Korea?
5. How many members are there in the Italian lower house, the Chamber of Deputies?
6. Which one of these could be seen as a mixed metaphor?
7. What thick rich soup is made from lobster or shellfish?
8. What singer recorded with the E Street Band?
9. Up until May 2016 what was the home ground of the UK's West Ham United Football Club?
10. Who, on 2 October 1925, transmitted a picture of William Taynton, an office boy from the offices on the floor below his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in Soho, London, from one room to another?
11. What body of water is 86 feet (26 meters) below sea level?
12. Which of these is a Jacob's Ladder?
13. Which of these has a stub?
14. What principal Dickens character wears a wedding dress throughout her appearance in the novel?
15. Measuring from the closest point of each of these countries to the equator, which is the furthest from the equator?
16. How many of the Great Lakes form part of the border between the U S A and Canada?
17. The Supreme Council of Antiquities was founded in 1859 by the French scholar and archaeologist FranΓ§ois Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (1821-1881), who specialised in what field?
18. Where were the first public performances of the 1956 musical "My Fair Lady", based on George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" ?
19. What was the overall aim of the three so-called Zimmerwald Conferences, held variously in Zimmerwald, Kienthal and Stockholm?
20. What is one of the three most populous cities in Africa?