General Knowledge Quiz 492 (20 MCQs)

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1. Sir Suma Chakrabarti was the 6th President, serving from 2012 to 2020, of what?
2. Which of these is the highest poker hand?
3. In what decade was the sound barrier broken for the first time in level flight by a pilot in a plane?
4. Who played with the "Runaways" and the "Blackhearts" ?
5. Where is the Thorntonbank Wind Farm which provides electricity to Belgium?
6. What term was used to describe the pattern where, from 1840 to 1960, each American President who had won election in a year ending in zero died in office?
7. Cynthia Harnett, Ian Serraillier, Barbara Leonie Picard, and K.M. Peyton are recognised mainly for their writing for what or whom?
8. Which of these countries lies on the African mainland?
9. What is the accounting term for a liability that may arise depending on what happens with an undecided future event?
10. What does Roe v Wade usually signify in the USA?
11. What are faience, raku and majolica?
12. What flower is the English rugby team emblem?
13. What is the lowest number that is both the square of one integer and the cube of another?
14. In 890 CE (and again in 1010 CE) which of these influential bodies of water froze over?
15. Which term was coined by the US computer scientist Grace Hopper in 1945?
16. Which of these is a native American tribe, originally from the Southeastern USA?
17. The Individual World Championships for which sport, the first of which was in 2005 and are held every two years, include events called "Constant Weight", "Constant Weight Without Fins", "Free Immersion", "Variable Weight", "Static", "Dynamic" and "Dynamic No Fins" ?
18. In what year did Canada win a gold medal for the first time at an Olympic Games that they hosted?
19. What are BΓͺtises de Cambrai?
20. Where is the Walvis Ridge?