General Knowledge Quiz 634 (20 MCQs)

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1. What 1963 political scandal in the UK involved the Secretary of State for War, after he had a brief relationship with the mistress of a Russian spy (a showgirl named Christine Keeler), and lied to the House of Commons about it?
2. Venus and which other planet in our solar system have no moon?
3. Which of these is a designer of hats?
4. Who was the first president of the Turkish Republic after the overthrow of the Sultan in 1922?
5. Moroni is the capital of which African country?
6. Which is the preposition in the tongue twister "She sells sea shells by the sea shore" ?
7. In March 2016, the European Union agreed an arrangement with what country to reduce an increasingly overwhelming flow of migrants to EU countries?
8. The ancient city of Carthage is in which modern day country?
9. Which venue hosted the Winter Olympics in both 1964 and 1976?
10. The Holy Roman Emperor Francis Ii did what in 1806?
11. What can "obverse" mean?
12. Which cakes were named after a baker who lived in Bath?
13. If you travelled downstream along the main outflow from Lake Victoria, which forms part of the borders of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, which city would you be closest to when you reached the mouth of the river?
14. What bridge, completed in the 12th century, is on the Rhone?
15. Which island has belonged to Carthage, Rome, the Saracens, the King of Aragon, the Dukes of Savoy, United Italy under Victor Emmanuel and was granted autonomous government in 1947?
16. One of the books by the English monk Byrhtferth (c. 970-c. 1020), among the most learned scholars of the 10th and 11th centuries, was his Manual or Enchiridion documenting what?
17. The pineapple express is a Pacific jetstream that runs from Hawaii to where?
18. Under what name was the short-lived 1991 TV series based on the "Where's Wally" books released in America?
19. The modern version of what code-breaking board game for two players, that resembles an old pencil and paper game called "Bulls and Cows" , was invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert?
20. The function of the human lymphatic system includes stimulating immune response, taking white blood cells to and from bones, removing interstitial fluid from tissues and what else?