General Knowledge Quiz 5 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the minimum number of members to sit in the German Bundestag?
2. Ellen Page and Ian Daniel are journalists and presenters for which television channel?
3. What are traditionally kept in a humidor?
4. What is the fourth planet from the Sun?
5. In which century did Henry VIII, king of England, die?
6. Which part of the body would be treated if the patient was suffering from laryngitis?
7. Which city, since the 14th century BC, has been controlled by Israelites, Judaeans, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Hasmoneans, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Mamluks, Turks, and the British and for a short time after World War II was occupied by Israel and Jordan?
8. Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya and Natalia Makarova, artists from what was the Soviet Union, have what else in common?
9. Which of these is closest to the Equator?
10. In terms of atomic radius, which is the smallest known atom?
11. Where is Lake Coipasa and its bordering salt flats, 20 km north of the world's largest salt flats (Salar de Uyuni)?
12. What structural element of a building protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface, creating usable space in the roof by adding headroom and usually enabling addition of windows?
13. For which song did Irish singer-songwriter Magda Davit (under a previous name) become first well-known?
14. Which of these was a famous economist?
15. In which country did Queen Isabella secure the throne when her opponents (Carlists) were defeated in 1868, following a civil war between those who wanted a king and those who wanted a queen?
16. Why is the ship the "Mayflower" famous?
17. What is the Spanish word for "house" ?
18. What is stuxnet?
19. What is regarded as the second largest parasitic killer in the world?
20. Which description best fits an enzyme?