General Knowledge Quiz 490 (20 MCQs)

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1. As at 2017 which country was the leading exporter of dates?
2. What was the name of the German troops that were sent to assist General Franco in the Spanish Civil War?
3. Before becoming US president, George W Bush was governor of which state?
4. Typically, a male moose sheds its antlers how frequently?
5. The arcade game "Rockford", released in 1988, is a spin-off from what game?
6. Rainforest, despite continuing burning, felling and mining, is still characteristic of a large part of what region in South America?
7. Which of these is a scoring system used in golf which involves scoring points based on the number of strokes taken at each hole?
8. What is the national intelligence agency of Israel?
9. Which French dramatist, one of the "Big Three" of 17th century France and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition wrote the comedy "Les Plaideurs" and the tragedies "Alexandre le Grand", "Andromaque", "Athalie", "Bajazet", "Bérénice", "Britannicus", "Esther", "Iphigénie", "La Thébaïde", "Mithridate" and "Phèdre" ?
10. Which Sultan of Egypt ruled an expanding empire that included Syria, Mesopotamia, and most of Asia Minor until stopped in 1192 by Richard I in the third Crusade?
11. What game involves throwing rings to get them on or near a pin?
12. If you travelled directly west from Luanda, Angola, which of these countries would you reach first?
13. In the 1790s, what were "chouans" ?
14. In mathematics, what is a 3-manifold?
15. Who is the next in this series:Annette Kaye, Frada Miller, Alene Akins, Mickey Sutphin, Alene Akins, Sharon Lepore, Julie Alexander, ..... ?
16. In 2017 the top three golf players in the final world rankings were from the USA; when did this last happen?
17. The Peripatetic School founded by Aristotle was called this for what reason?
18. In probability theory, a stochastic process is what kind?
19. What instrument for measuring radiant heat was devised by Langley, an American physicist, in 1881?
20. British author George Orwell, as well as being renowned for his novels, is widely respected for what?