General Knowledge Quiz 24 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is hyssop?
2. What electricity voltage is provided as mains power in Japan?
3. What was a fleam used for?
4. Beat Mändli, Daniel Deusser, Markus Beerbaum and Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum are world ranking competitors in which sport?
5. What dramas popular in Europe especially during the Renaissance have characters personifying abstractions such as charity or vice, or such as death or youth?
6. In 1840 Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom married her cousin. What was his name?
7. In 2009, what name was proposed for the bridge connecting roads for a new route across the Colorado River for U.S. Route 93, known as the Hoover Dam Bypass?
8. Originally a UK TV series using string puppets it first aired in 1952 with an idiosyncratic version of English called Oddle Poddle; what was the series?
9. What form of water is part of the name for a digit found high up on the leg of many mammals, birds, and reptiles?
10. The Serengeti in Africa is predominantly what kind of countryside?
11. During the Cold War, what Eastern European alliance was the equivalent of NATO?
12. What is an epic poem from Ancient Iraq, originally titled "He who Saw the Deep" or "Surpassing All Other Kings", of which the most complete version exists on 12 clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th century BCE Assyrian king Ashurbanipal?
13. In a 1934 song, Noël Coward warned Mrs Worthington: "Don't put your daughter on the ..... " what?
14. What period was labelled "the Phony War" in Europe?
15. What was the family name of the rulers of Russia from 1613 to 1917?
16. Which country withdrew from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 2008 after it became a net importer of oil?
17. Which of these "Mary"s was never a Queen?
18. Which of these is a nutritional disease, the symptoms of which are dryness of skin, anaemia, swelling of the gums, and haemorrhages into skin, muscles and joints?
19. Where are the Crown Jewels for the reigning monarch of Great Britain stored?
20. The American TV series "Grown-ish", first series broadcast 2018, is a spin-off from which other series?