General Knowledge Quiz 585 (20 MCQs)

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1. What submarine feature joins mainland Ecuador to the Galapagos Islands?
2. What do the Bobo Ashanti and the Nyabinghi form part of?
3. Which is the 1999 Sega open-world action-adventure game, with detail unprecedented at the time, including a day-and-night system, variable weather effects, non-player characters with daily schedules, numerous interactive objects, and various minigames?
4. Edward Wilson as chief scientist, and others-zoologists, biologists, geologists, a physicist and a meteorologist-were the scientific team for which expedition?
5. In May 1949, 10 western nations formed the Council of Europe. These were Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and which other country?
6. What are Proxima Centauri, Sirius A, Pollux, Arcturus and Betelgeuse?
7. What is "stinkhorn" ?
8. In May 2017 there was a worldwide ransomware cyber attack, called what?
9. During his career from 1959 to 1993, who battled more than 2, 000 fires in oil and natural gas wells, notably in 1962 when he tackled a fire at a gas field in the Sahara nicknamed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter, a 450-foot (137 m) flame?
10. According to the song, who loved Puff, the magic dragon?
11. What size is a doubles Padel (or Paddle) court?
12. In humans, the adult skull is normally made up of 22 bones, which are joined together by sutures, rigid articulations permitting very little movement, except for which one?
13. Which of these minerals is blue?
14. Which European country was twice, in 1892 and again in 1902, declared bankrupt?
15. "The Bowery" is a street in which US city?
16. Which part of the body would be treated if the patient was suffering from bunions?
17. Until 971 the Southern Han dynasty in southern China kept a permanent military corps of what?
18. Which of the following was not recorded in the Christian Bible as a gift from a magi?
19. In ÊpÊe fencing what is a valid target on the opponent's body?
20. What was the reason for a period of silence observed during the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games?