General Knowledge Quiz 363 (20 MCQs)

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1. How many pieces are on a chessboard at the start of a game?
2. Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the prize for, among other things, determining the chemical structure of what in 1945?
3. Which of these is a type of omelette originating from Spain?
4. The phrase "treble bob major" is associated with which of these activities?
5. Which body or object has consistently the highest average density currently known in the universe?
6. In bridge, the four players are referred to as what?
7. What field of activity does the phrase "on tenterhooks" refer to?
8. What is the name for a musical work primarily designed to develop the technique of an instrumentalist?
9. There is a "famed Tahiti Beach" on the .....
10. The phrase "beyond the pale" refers to the history of which country?
11. A famous US trial in 1950 involved Whittaker Chambers and who else?
12. In 2012 an annual international event, GODZone, was established in New Zealand for competitors in what?
13. In what situation would an aubade be played?
14. Who are most likely to perform a "pas de deux" ?
15. Which river rises in dense forest in Zambian highlands, then flows through Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and into the Indian Ocean?
16. Which country had, at various times, included areas known at various times as Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, Vojvodina, Kosovo, Istria and Rijeka?
17. What natural effect is only visible during a total eclipse of the sun?
18. Which was the first of the Baltic states to be occupied, and then absorbed as a constituent republic, by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?
19. According to the nursery rhyme, how much was the Pieman selling his pies for when Simple Simon met him going to the fair?
20. Which of these, the most popular spectator sport in Ireland, is a form of football played mainly in Ireland by teams of 15 on a rectangular grass pitch with H-shaped goals at each end?