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General Knowledge Quiz 629 (20 MCQs)

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1. Apart from one species, bromeliads are native to where?
2. A Röntgen is a measure of what?
3. Which one of the four provinces of Ireland includes Northern Ireland, and three counties in the Republic of Ireland?
4. Between 1783 and 1865, Englishmen William Wilberforce, Sir Cecil Wray and Dr Beilby Porteus, Africans Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho and, in the USA, William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston were leading figures in which movement?
5. A keffiyeh or kufiya, is a what?
6. Which Indonesian volcano erupted in October / November 2010, forcing 70, 000 people from their homes?
7. Which of these is used for colouring hair?
8. Hugh Masekela, legendary trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer, spent 30 years in exile from what country?
9. According to a musical by Gilbert and Sullivan, whose "lot is not a happy one" ?
10. The Port of Hambantota, for which construction began in January 2008 to provide bunkering, ship repair, ship building and crew change facilities, is in which country?
11. What can be the effect of injecting too much insulin?
12. Louis XIV of France was known as what?
13. For what inventions used during World War II did British aviation engineer Barnes Wallis, later knighted, become famous?
14. A state of Australia, one of the world's biggest waterfalls, a London railway station, Africa's largest lake and a large public park in Hong Kong are all named after whom?
15. What annual event takes place in spring on the beaches of Berck-sur-Mer on the Opal Coast of northern France?
16. The waters of the Gulf of Mexico flow to meet the Atlantic Ocean through what?
17. What gas is the main component of the atmosphere of the planet Mars?
18. A quote from Samuel Johnson is that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of ..... " what?
19. Who wrote the theme tune to the hit TV show The Big Bang Theory?
20. In his autobiography "Life", what does Keith Richards say is his nickname for Mick Jagger?
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