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General Knowledge Quiz 520 (20 MCQs)

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1. Rum is the basis for which of these cocktails?
2. In the 1990s, which country briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre and from 2001 to 2008, accepted aid from the Australian government in exchange for housing an illegal migrant detention centre that held and processed asylum seekers trying to enter Australia?
3. What is sometimes known as a buttonwood tree?
4. What passes between the sun and Earth to make a solar eclipse?
5. After Mao Zedong's death his wife, together with others of the Gang of Four, was put on trial and sentenced to death; when did she die?
6. In a Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 report published in 2017, mussels living around extreme deep-sea hydrothermal vents and methane seeps had genes which strengthened what?
7. What nationality is the director of the BAFTA-and Palme d'Or-winning drama "Paris, Texas" (1984)?
8. The stags of which deer species make a shrill whistling sound during rutting season, rather than a roar or grunt?
9. Which of these is not a European airport first opened for non-military use before 1920?
10. Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is the collective name for a number of activities to search for extra-terrestrial life using scientific methods to search for what, specifically?
11. In the northern hemisphere, what season begins in one calendar year and ends in the next?
12. What is another name for caustic soda?
13. What game is also known as "Literati", "Alfapet", "Funworder", "Skip-A-Cross", "Spelofun", "Palabras Cruzadas" and "Word for Word" ?.
14. The islands of Alderney, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou and Sark are administered directly by a government based where?
15. What is a common factor in the careers of Giacomo Puccini, Paul McCartney, and Arthur Sullivan?
16. Which little girl in a pink-and-white striped dress did author and illustrator Joyce Lankester Brisley feature in her series of children's books?
17. Where did the bouquets presented to athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics come from?
18. The male of which crab has one claw much longer than the other?
19. Which of these played a part, at least figuratively, in the original meaning of "kerfuffle" ?
20. What law is "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure" ?
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