General Knowledge Quiz 625 (20 MCQs)

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1. Mohandas Gandhi studied law at which English educational institution?
2. Whose first book, published in 1920, was "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" ?
3. Which of these is the word for a French stew made using lamb or mutton?
4. Still life is a term which can be applied to a certain style of what?
5. How heavy is a megagram?
6. Who was the first Westerner to discover the Victoria Falls?
7. What word can either refer to a nineteenth century mobile theatre device, or, in modern usage, a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum?
8. The distinctive Ponte JK (Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge) spans what body of water in Brazil?
9. Where is the region known as Transylvania?
10. Which early 19th century English writer, while collaborating in several works, also wrote under the pseudonym of Sempronia?
11. More than 99% of the visible mass of our solar system is contained within what?
12. Who was the first woman to make a solo flight from England to Australia in 1930?
13. "Out of Africa" (1985), starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, is based loosely on the 1937 autobiography of a person from which country?
14. The root vegetable called the swede is also called what other name?
15. The rate of glacier melting in ranges across Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, India, China and Pakistan has doubled in the 21st century, except for glaciers in which?
16. Bear Grylls is the only person to appear in what TV series?
17. Symptoms of what disease include fever, shivering, joint pain, vomiting, anaemia, hemoglobinuria, retinal damage, and convulsions, with cyclical occurrence of sudden coldness followed by rigour, fever and sweating?
18. In which US Senate election were all senators popularly elected for the first time?
19. In which country is the city of Cardiff?
20. Which of these sports has an even number of players in a standard team?