General Knowledge Quiz 529 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these people was, according to several early sources, the second Pope?
2. What shape ball is used in the sport of kabaddi?
3. What is a Pyrrhic victory?
4. Where is the World Golf Hall of Fame located?
5. What was the name of Julius Caesar's last wife?
6. Trig stations are installed on the highest point of a hill or mountain for what?
7. When in trouble, which of these characters might reach for a can of Duff?
8. Which of these is a fully independent country?
9. After leading a rebel army for 20 years, Ahmed Sukarno was elected the first president of which country after it was granted independence in 1949?
10. Which cold, low-salinity ocean current flows north-westward along the west coast of South America from the southern tip of Chile to northern Peru and can extend 1, 000 kilometers (620 miles) offshore?
11. In 1815 the Congress of Vienna created United Netherlands, but in 1830 the restive south split off again to form what?
12. What is the block-chain-enabled NFT used for in transactions concerning digital material?
13. What is a species in the legume family, native to North and South America, an annual herbaceous plant growing 30 to 50 cm (1 to 1 1/2 feet) tall?
14. Professional sportsperson Leticia Bufoni has been ranked the #1 women in her field by the World governing body in the sport; what field is that?
15. The Ishtar Gate, constructed around 575BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II, was a gate to which city?
16. Which country voted in November 2012 to work to become the 51st state of the USA?
17. Antonin Dvoล™รกk (1841-1904) used folk material in his music drawn from his homeland where?
18. Which Summer Olympics was the first to exclude South Africa?
19. The annual BBC Sports Personality award was first given in 1954 and as at 2020 includes how many other categories?
20. Some rivers do not flow to the sea, but empty instead into inland sinks or aquifers, or dry up or similar. Some of these are the Okavango, the Humboldt, the Kern, the Chu and ..... ?