General Knowledge Quiz 40 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where is Loch Ness?
2. In the film "Pink Floyd-The Wall" (released in 1982) what role did Bob Geldof, at the time lead vocalist of the Boomtown Rats, play?
3. Matsuri, festivals of religious worship and celebration, are a feature of life in what country?
4. According to the Bible, what did Samson kill 1, 000 Philistines with?
5. A bean bag is a substitute for what item of furniture?
6. In April 2010, what word used by Robin Williams on "The Late Show with David Letterman" caused the Australian Prime Minister to respond in such a way that Alabama newspapers demanded he apologise?
7. Where was the Chacaltaya glacier, one of the highest in South America, which was 0.22 km2 (0.085 sq mi) in 1940 and effectively gone in 2009?
8. Where is the Arafura Sea?
9. What does the Chytrid fungus particularly affect?
10. During the cycling road race at the Rome Games of 1960, Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen fell from his bicycle. Which of these was not a result of that?
11. What term is familiarly applied to the university where one received one's education?
12. What is a description of the process of frying an egg?
13. At what age did James VI of Scotland, later James I of England, Ireland and Wales as well, succeed to the Scottish throne?
14. Canadian-born Lionel Blair was particularly known in which discipline?
15. Which of these countries lie along, beside and close to the Scandes?
16. What is the name for a wasps' nest?
17. Brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier were the inventors of a style of what?
18. Where would you find a person called a seamer?
19. Where was the 1994 earthquake, magnitude MW of 8.2, resulting from the Nazca plate's being pushed beneath the mantle of the South American continent?
20. The holocaust carried out by Hitler during World War II is frequently described solely in terms of the death of nearly 6 million Jews. However, in addition to this appalling figure the holocaust included the focussed slaughter of many other non-combatants; which of these is not recorded as part of this?