General Knowledge Quiz 661 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which country's territory includes a long narrow east-west tongue separating Zambia from Botswana?

Correct Answer: C) Namibia.

2. What is a word for a computer user's representation of themselves, usually in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games?

Correct Answer: D) Avatar.

3. Who created the character Jesse Stone in a series of 9 detective novels?

Correct Answer: B) Robert Parker.

4. "Love is the Bin" by Banksy was originally called what?

Correct Answer: C) Girl with Balloon.

5. What adjective is usually applied to an owl?

Correct Answer: B) Nocturnal.

6. Which country, and its leader, hosted the 1936 Summer and Winter Olympics?

Correct Answer: B) Germany.

7. Which of these is in a time zone which is 45 minutes offset from Universal Time?

Correct Answer: D) Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

8. "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" and "Factory Girls" are plays by whom?

Correct Answer: C) Frank McGuinness.

9. Ashkenazic and Sephardic are the two divisions of what cultire?

Correct Answer: D) Jewish.

10. Where are Kombu and Irish Moss found?

Correct Answer: C) In coastal seawater.

11. Who wrote "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" ?

Correct Answer: A) Miguel de Cervantes.

12. The first three rounds of the 2009/2010 season for which world championship were cancelled, and eventually the championship itself?

Correct Answer: B) A1 Grand Prix.

13. Which of the Marx Brothers appeared in their vaudeville act, but not in any of their films?

Correct Answer: C) Gummo.

14. What is "bergamot" ?

Correct Answer: A) A fruit or herb.

15. Bumblebees of the subgenus Bombus Psithyrus raise their young in what way?

Correct Answer: B) By forcing other bumblebee species to raise them.

16. What is tumbleweed?

Correct Answer: B) Any plant using tumbling as a means of seed or spore dispersal.

17. By 1988 Switzerland finally shelved plans to develop what?

Correct Answer: B) Nuclear weapons.

18. The name "Subbuteo" is most associated with a table-top version of what game?

Correct Answer: C) Football / Soccer.

19. In which area was part or all of the Dakar Rally run from 2009 to 2019?

Correct Answer: C) South America.

20. Pedology is the study of what?

Correct Answer: D) Soil.