General Knowledge Quiz 565 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these states of the USA is rectangular?
2. Which of these is a person who can read and write?
3. Carve, Cutback, Drop in, Floater, Goofy foot, Grommet and Off the Hook are terms used in which sport?
4. Anthony Nesty won which country's first Olympic medal, a gold in the 100 m butterfly in the 1988 Summer Olympics?
5. Which is the nearest large high altitude lake to Lake PoopΓ³ in Bolivia?
6. When it was enacted in 1883 what did the Pendleton Act establish in the USA?
7. In 2009, L'Osservatore Romano published a controversial article that demonstrated that what had done more for the liberation of woman than the contraceptive pill and abortion pill?
8. Which Greek philosopher was accused by the Sophists of corrupting the youth of Athens and was condemned to death by drinking hemlock?
9. From 1928 the obverse of medals awarded at the Olympic Games carried a picture of the Roman Colosseum. At which Games was this replaced by the Panathinaikon Stadium in Greece?
10. What is the number of the beast, according to the Book of Revelation?
11. What is Bundesliga?
12. Which November 2016 series created by, and released in its entirety on, Netflix had within three months been given awards from the Screen Actors Guild, the Golden Globe and Critics' Choice Television?
13. In 2006 Monty Panesar became the first person of what religion to play test cricket for England?
14. What can be one of the effects on Earth of a Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun?
15. Apart from the platypus what are the only living examples of egg-laying mammals?
16. What does Dorothy Sayers's character Lord Peter Wimsey call his 12-cylinder ("double-six") 1927 Daimler four-seater?
17. What is the country of origin of the cheese called "Monterey Jack" ?
18. Among the works of which English landscape painter are "The Fighting Temeraire" and "The Sun of Venice Going to Sea" ?
19. In what can a slow over rate be penalised?
20. Rabbits are the background for what hit song, biggest selling single in the UK in 1979?