General Knowledge Quiz 271 (20 MCQs)

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1. What element has the symbol Cu?
2. In 2009, which was the most dominant women's softball team, having won three of the last four Olympic tournaments and the last six Women's ISF XI World Championships?
3. A dance troupe led by brothers from the Deepak family of Sunam (Manohar, Avtar and Gurbachan) and the dhol player Bhana Ram Sunami were the first significant developers of what?
4. What post was held by Winston Churchill during the 1926 General Strike in the UK?
5. What is the name of the swampy area in Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee?
6. What performer did Bing Crosby cite as a performing influence from his early teenage years?
7. By late 2021, how many people approximately were in the world population?
8. The Plum Judy, Painted Lady, Monarch, Speckled Wood, Mallow Skipper, and Zabulon Skipper are varieties of what?
9. In which Olympic Games were the Olympics and the Paralympics first organised by the same committee?
10. What was the first story book title published by Puffin Books after it was set up by Penguin Books in 1940?
11. The Strait of Kerch connects the Black Sea to what?
12. The X-Files spawned two theatrical movies, "The X-Files" and "I Want To Believe", and which spin-off TV series?
13. The island Commonwealth of Dominica sits in which sea or ocean?
14. What term is applied to the fusion of Roman, Greek and Persian cultures that reached its peak after the 4th century AD during the reign of Justinian, and is seen in mosaics, frescoes, metal work, ivory carving and silk weaving?
15. Which of these is a Bohemian dance?
16. What system, available on the internet, was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes?
17. What sport is featured in the film "Field of Dreams" starring Kevin Costner?
18. Which of these is commonly used in vehicle brake fluid?
19. The term "coalition of the willing", to describe military and / or humanitarian interventions for which the UN Security Council cannot agree to mount a full UN peacekeeping operation, was not applied to which of these?
20. What items are produced in a darkroom?