General Knowledge Quiz 204 (20 MCQs)

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1. Table Mountain in South Africa overlooks which city?
2. Who would Gwalchmei, also known in legend as Sir Gawain, be most likely to have talked with?
3. The "promession" technique, announced in May 2010, was proposed to be used for what?
4. What is the approximate speed of light in miles per second?
5. In Scottish legend, what is a kelpie?
6. Which issue in the state of Western Australia has been defeated each time it has been put to a plebiscite in 1975, 1984, 1992 & 2009?
7. What best describes geometry?
8. Where in Africa is the Great Escarpment, which surrounds a plateau part of which is known as the Great Karoo?
9. How did Princess Grace of Monaco die in 1982?
10. For which Olympic Games was the longest torch relay in Olympic history to that date held?
11. When did the style of football known as "Total Football" reach the World Cup?
12. What was the first of the World Trade Centre buildings to be rebuilt after 9/11?
13. The main ingredients of gunpowder are saltpetre, charcoal and what else?
14. When did boxing first appear as a contestable sport in an Olympiad?
15. What is the chemical symbol for Nickel?
16. What is the stage name of Roberta Joan Anderson, whose recording career began in 1968?
17. What is the mathematical result of taking a number, squaring it, multiplying by double the first prime number, quartering the result, dividing by the first number, and then taking away the first number?
18. What is typically used to make bullet casings or cartridges?
19. Loihi Seamount, an active undersea volcano, is around 35 km (22 miles) off the southeast coast of where?
20. Between them, who controls over half of the shares and voting rights of the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company, L'Oréal?