General Knowledge Quiz 60 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the name of a slender highly tempered, sharp-pointed, edgeless weapon about 3 feet long?
2. In the western or the Christian world what is termed "the Good Book" ?
3. What game, whose players use a squidger, aim to squop their opponents, occasionally to boondock them, and in a variant play a jeu de puces, was held in a Royal Match in 2008 to commemorate a 50th anniversary?
4. Which of these is the name of a US special operations force?
5. In the song "My Generation" by the Who, what words follow the line "People try to put us down" ?
6. The aria "Nessun Dorma" is from what opera?
7. If a field is 25 metres square, what is the length of the perimeter?
8. By what name is Marian (or Mary Ann) Evans, who wrote "Adam Bede", "The Mill On The Floss" and "Silas Marner", better known?
9. Apart from in zoos and breeding centres, where is the endangered pygmy hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis, mostly found?
10. How many bones are there, excluding the jaw and the bones in the ear, in the human skull?
11. Which of these musicals was not composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber?
12. Five of Canada's fourteen UNESCO World heritage sites (Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Wood Buffalo National Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump) are in which Canadian province?
13. The school of thought known as diffusionism is a study in which field?
14. In 2019 what are Dorian, Lorenzo and Humberto?
15. The portrait of which US statesman appears on the US $ 100 bill?
16. By what name is Vincent Fernier better known?
17. Which country has borders with Brazil, Paraguay and Peru?
18. Which of these is a branch of crime fiction characterised by strong, independent female detectives, that was labelled and effectively created as a genre during the 1990s?
19. Where is Mount Ararat?
20. What is a rhumb line?