General Knowledge Quiz 362 (20 MCQs)

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1. When was windsurfing first competed at the Olympics?
2. Where are monkfish typically caught?
3. Which of these is a light automatic personal weapon with limited range and accuracy, getting its power solely from the recoil, which was mass-produced cheaply during World War II?
4. "Alfabet/alphabet:A Memoir of a First Language" is a record of the transition of which award-winning Canadian poet to speaking English?
5. In which US state are the Catskill Mountains?
6. Which son of a king of Kent, chosen king of the West Saxons, conquered Cornwall, Mercia and other parts of England and is generally accepted as the first King to be recognised by all England?
7. The Taj Mahal is nearest to which city?
8. World War I flying ace Baron von Richthofen, the Red Baron, was credited with how many "kills" before he himself was killed?
9. Set up in 1954 as a merger of smaller groups, the Front de LibΓ©ration Nationale fought a war for independence from France until 1962, when the French government signed a cease-fire agreement. The FLN became the only legal party in which country?
10. When Major-General Benedict Arnold of the US Army planned to surrender West Point in 1780 to whom did he plan to surrender?
11. Where is the Guinness Book of World Records published?
12. What did Breton artist Jeanne Malivel (1895-1926) join with two other young artists to create?
13. What is a sextant used for?
14. Rabbets are used in what?
15. What is the national anthem of the UK?
16. Who is credited with inventing the railway sleeping car?
17. Which of these is not a member of Enid Blyton's Famous Five?
18. Who was Sancho Panza companion to?
19. Which of these is a Canadian journalist, documentary-maker and BBC presenter?
20. Which American jazz musician, clarinettist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman", in the mid-1930s led one of the most popular musical groups in America, which was also one of the first racially-integrated musical groups?