General Knowledge Quiz 644 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which is one of the most prominent landmarks of the city of Abuja in Nigeria?
2. What connects one of the symbols of the Lillehammer Winter Olympics 1994, and two Norwegian teenagers on the island of Tro, Norway, in 2016?
3. What is a small ceramic dish used for baking an individual portion?
4. In 1990 the World Weightlifting Championships were run separately for men and women for the last time. Where were they held?
5. Malagasy is the language spoken by the indigenous people of what country?
6. Founded in 914 CE by the Vikings who built on the banks of the River Suir, and with Reginald's Tower as its most recognisable landmark, what is the oldest city in the Republic of Ireland?
7. In cartography, the method by which a spherical shape is represented as a rectangle was invented by whom?
8. An internationally recognised activist for freedom of information, is Julian who?
9. Which physicist wrote "A Brief History of Time" ?
10. The wreck of which warship, one of the largest in the English navy of King Henry VIII in the first half of the 16th century, was rediscovered in 1971 and salvaged in October 1982?
11. What is the shortest-serving capital in the current states of the USA?
12. What was the name of the Liverpool club where the Beatles played in the early 1960s?
13. What is the name of the stadium in The Bronx in New York City which was the home baseball park of the New York Yankees from 1923 to 2008?
14. What field is Albert Einstein best known for working in?
15. Which of these, sporting large backward-curving horns, is a bearded mountain goat from Eurasia and northern Africa?
16. Which Irish artist was lead singer of an Irish rock band from 1990 to 2003 when the band dissolved for the first time?
17. Which world leaders shared fish and chips in a London pub in 2003?
18. To what does the term "radiology" refer?
19. What does the "A" stand for in the abbreviation "PDA", that refers to a small computer that has the ability to connect to the internet?
20. Which Irish-born philanthropist founded over 112 institutions for deprived children in the last half of the 19th century?