General Knowledge Quiz 386 (20 MCQs)

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1. What did FISU organise, held in Almaty and Taipei City in 2017?
2. Philippe Croizon was the first quadruple amputee to achieve what on 18 September 2010, at the age of 42?
3. In 2015 the IDA designated a 36, 000 hectare site in the Elqui Valley of northern Chile as what?
4. Roger Federer failed to reach the men's singles final at Wimbledon in 2010. When was the previous time that he had failed to do so?
5. Which of these is a soup that is served cold?
6. Who discovered Uranus and one of its moons, Titania, between 1781 and 1787?
7. The Babylonians invented the clepsydra. What was it?
8. The 2010 film "The Tooth Fairy", starring Dwayne Johnson, Julie Andrews and Billy Crystal, concerns a player of which sport?
9. What nationality was architect Oscar Niemeyer, prominent in the team which designed the United Nations headquarters in New York City and later chief architect of the public buildings for the new Brazilian capital Brasilia?
10. Lake Erie is connected to Lake Ontario by which canal?
11. Eddie Murphy starred in a remake of which Jerry Lewis comedy?
12. What is the most populous country that has English as an official language?
13. What is the term for a section of a building that runs at right angles to the main body, giving the shape of a "T" or a cross?
14. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, served in what service in World War II?
15. In November 1983 a bomb was exploded in the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C. What was the reason given?
16. What style of American Football founded in 2003 is a full-contact 7 a side game where uniforms consist of helmets, shoulder pads, elbow pads, knee pads, bras, and panties?
17. What caused a fire in 1937 in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility?
18. What is a popular, although not fully accurate, name for carnotite?
19. The TV series "The Bletchley Circle" (2012-2014) centres on four women reuniting shortly after the end of the Second World War to use their, now longer recognised, skills honed in what field during the war?
20. What is the sclera?