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General Knowledge Quiz 439 (20 MCQs)

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1. What make of car was founded in 1963 in a tractor factory in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, and is now a subsidiary of Volkswagen?
2. Which of these countries has a coastline on the Indian Ocean?
3. In which state of the USA is the educational institution known as U. C. L. A.?
4. One of the cratons, or relatively stable areas, in the South American tectonic plate is known as the what Shield?
5. What is the richest horse race in Europe?
6. Which of these is a book by Dr Seuss?
7. What mountain-based military camp in Frederick County, Maryland, is used as a country retreat of the President of the USA and his guests?
8. What is the name for a badger's nest?
9. Who was credited as the first to climb to the top of Mount Everest?
10. The ship "The Beagle" became famous for carrying which scientist on a voyage of discovery?
11. The thymol derivatives concentrated in the roots of which flowering plant are used in ointments for strains, sprains, bruises, and as an anti-inflammatory?
12. The giant toad Rhinella marina (formerly Bufo marinus), introduced to kill pests throughout Oceania, the Caribbean and Northern Australia, and in its turn a major pest in some of those areas, is native to where?
13. The philosopher Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570-c. 495 BCE) believed in transmigration of souls, led a group which proposed that the earth was round, planets have an axis and travel around the sun, and is still widely known for a theorem of what kind?
14. Concorde, a collaboration between British Aircraft Corporation from the UK and Aérospatiale from France, took its first supersonic flight when?
15. Which monotheistic, Abrahamic religious movement accepts Haile Selassie I, the former and final Emperor of Ethiopia, as the incarnation of God, called Jah?
16. When a dish of food is described as poached, what does this usually mean?
17. Which New Zealander, known as "The White Mouse", was a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance, and became one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of World War II?
18. Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I of England?
19. What artistic movement was brought to international attention at the World's Fair in Paris in 1925?
20. Which of these words can be applied to soups enriched with salt pork fatback and thickened with flour or with crushed ship biscuit or saltine crackers, and milk?
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