General Knowledge Quiz 641 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which event in late 2022 devastated the Cayman Islands, Cuba and south east USA?
2. In the USA in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt formed the Progressive Party when he lost the Republican nomination to William Howard Taft. What was the party also known as?
3. Which Jewish festival, celebrated over the 14th and 15th of the Hebrew month of Adar (approximately March in the Gregorian calendar), is to commemorate the preservation of the Jews in Persia from the destruction threatened by Haman?
4. The island of Rรฉunion, in the Mascarene Islands and an overseas department and region of France, is closest to which other country to its west?
5. What would munition normally be?
6. What is the word for a literary work that imitates another style or artist?
7. What are Toyosu in Tokyo, La Nueva Viga in Mexico, Mercamadrid in Spain, and Feskekรดrka in Sweden?
8. A "tip off" is the start of each game in which sport?
9. What were the championships known as USSR vs. Rest of the World in 1970 and 1984?
10. What is a trug usually used for?
11. Who coined the expression "portmanteau words" for words made from combinations of other words, such as "brunch" ?
12. What are krugerrands made of?
13. Who composed the 1723 suite for wind instruments known as the Water Music?
14. What did the 1985 Accord signed by the US and four other nations at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in November apply to?
15. Where is the term "gongoozler" most often used?
16. Henry Croft, an orphan street sweeper who collected money for charity, is associated with what organised charitable tradition of working class culture in London, England?
17. Ninette de Valois was involved professionally in what activity?
18. What is a "chapman" ?
19. Which partly fictional book published in the late nineteenth century is based on a two-week holiday on an English river?
20. What state, earlier known as the Bohemian Kingdom and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time of the Empire's dissolution at the end of World War I, was formed in 1918?