General Knowledge Quiz 258 (20 MCQs)

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1. In the James Bond film "The World Is Not Enough" who played Bond girl Elektra King?
2. The game of pinochle uses what?
3. The 2023 Esports World Championship included eFootball, Dota 2, Tekken 7, CS:GO, PUBG Mobile and which other?
4. Which direction does the biggest river in South America flow?
5. What is a specialized linear-beam vacuum tube used as amplifiers at microwave and radio frequencies to produce both low-power reference signals for superheterodyne radar receivers and to produce high-power carrier waves for communications and the driving force for modern particle accelerators?
6. The MacRobertson Shield international competition, hosted in New Zealand in 2013-14, in the US in 2017 and in Australia in 2022, was in what sport?
7. Which of these is a Welsh retired soccer star who made a career in film with his debut in "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" ?
8. What is one of the terms for a type of mediaeval base coin made elsewhere but circulating in England, and made illegal there in 1299 CE?
9. Which one of these scripts was not written or co-written by Harold Pinter?
10. What are the Yeoman Warders, who have guarded the Tower of London since 1485, commonly called?
11. What is the name of the surface used to play a game of curling?
12. To which of these places would you go to buy wine in Spain?
13. Playwright Athol Fugard, multi-award-winning honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is best-known for what theme in his works?
14. Which of these is not a drupe?
15. It is believed that which building stands on the site of temples built successively by Micah, Zerubbabel and Herod in Jerusalem?
16. What bird is nicknamed "man of war" because it steals food from other birds in the air?
17. A Duesenberg was a make of what?
18. In 1932 the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd unified with the regions of Al-Hasa and Qatif to form which country?
19. What does a draper traditionally sell?
20. Ludwig Leichhardt was a Prussian naturalist and explorer of what area between 1842 and 1848?