General Knowledge Quiz 389 (20 MCQs)

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1. In 1987, the Fédéracion International del Volleyball arranged the first World Beach Volleyball Championships, which was played where?
2. What is a common name for the Yucca Palm, Yucca brevifolia?
3. Why is the city of Williamsburg, the capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1780, so named?
4. Who scored the league winning goal for Manchester City in the 2011/12 Premier League season?
5. What name is given to musical lines that sound different and move independently from each other, but sound harmonious when played simultaneously?
6. Which of these terms comes from cricket?
7. Cricketer W G Grace, who played first-class cricket from 1865 to 1908, also captained England from 1903 to 1908 in what other sport?
8. Which high profile tennis star was controversially linked by the host country for the 2022 Winter Olympics to the last months of its build up to the Games?
9. What is the fictional character "Babar" ?
10. Who won a (then) record seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich?
11. Which river, the world's deepest on record and the second largest river in the world by discharge volume, rises in the highlands and mountains of the East African Rift?
12. The last line of which 1939 film, spoken by Judy Garland, is "If I ever again go looking for my heart's desire, I won't go looking any further than my own backyard" ?
13. Who was England's goalkeeper when they won the soccer World Cup Final in 1966?
14. What is or are the machair?
15. The Mérida Initiative agreed in 2008 to combat the threats of drug trafficking, transnational organised crime and money laundering is an agreement for co-operation between which countries?
16. In the song "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones, what words follow the line "I see the girls walk by" ?
17. What is "tartine" ?
18. What is common to the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai, Kwanini The Manta Resort in Zanzibar, Hotell Utter Inn in Sweden and Subsix at Niyama in the Maldives?
19. In which continent did Allan Quatermain, the explorer in H. Ryder Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines", search for the mines?
20. When did East Germany build the Berlin Wall?