General Knowledge Quiz 320 (20 MCQs)

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1. To what region is the viscacha native?
2. In which country was actor Sam Neill born?
3. What sport was part of the central theme of the film "Rush" (2013)?
4. What is the form of sugar called "dextrose" also known as?
5. Which of these is a type of horse?
6. Which of these is a book of the Christian and Jewish Bible?
7. Which canal joins the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
8. Where was the birthplace of the actor Anna Paquin, first prominent in film in "The Piano" (1993)?
9. When and where was the inaugural Football World Cup held?
10. The oldest person on record, whose age has been independently verified, reached what age?
11. Where are krugerrands legal tender?
12. What characterises the first and second serve in Padel (or Paddle)?
13. James Chadwick discovered which sub-atomic particles in 1932?
14. In 1988, why did English professional jockey Lester Piggott have his OBE (which had been awarded in 1975) taken away?
15. In 1106 at the Battle of Tinchebray in Normandy, Duke Robert II was beaten decisively and finally by whom?
16. The Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, straits which separate Europe from the mainland of Asia, run through which country?
17. It premiered at the Olivier Theatre in the Royal National Theatre in London, UK, using life-size, non-human puppets. What was the play?
18. Who was the star of "High Noon", the American 1952 western film directed by Fred Zinnemann that tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself?
19. An oologist studies what?
20. For what activity would one use a bunsen burner?