General Knowledge Quiz 243 (20 MCQs)

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1. The Arctic Council, established in 1996, consists of 8 member states, which are Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, the United States of America and which other?
2. Two tectonic plates and small corners of two others lie under the African continent. These are the African Plate, part of the Eurasian and the Arabian Plates and which other?
3. A Canadian-American adventure and military scifi TV series which first screened in 1997 was one of the longest lasting. What was it called?
4. Where is the city of Medellin?
5. The Rio Grande forms the border of Texas with what other area?
6. Which of these is NOT a type of weaving?
7. What sport does IFOCE, set up in 1997, govern?
8. Which teams contested baseball's American League Championship series in 2009?
9. In 1954 Obninsk, USSR, was the place for what?
10. "Hamlet" is largely set where?
11. Which is most likely to be seen wild in Laos?
12. What was King George VI's first name?
13. Where is the Topkapi Palace?
14. What is the capital of Algeria?
15. What was remarkable about Kathrine Switzer's competing as runner no.261 in the 1967 Boston Marathon?
16. What is the name of a spectacular group of six canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the southwestern part of Chihuahua, northwestern Mexico, a name derived from the colour of the walls?
17. What Royal residence in London, originally part of St James's Palace, was used as the London residence of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh from 1949 to 1952?
18. Whose germ theory led to his devising a means to heat-treat milk to reduce disease?
19. The Billabong Pro Teahupoo, Tahiti, founded in 1999, is a professional competition in what?
20. Australopithecus sediba, an early hominid, whose only discovered remains date to 1.78 to 1.95 million years ago, is known from two partial skeletons discovered where?