General Knowledge Quiz 699 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where was naumachy carried out?
2. Who is the next in this series:Jersey Joe Walcott, Rocky Marciano, Floyd Patterson, Ingemar Johansson, Floyd Patterson, ..... ?
3. Where was the Treaty of Waitangi signed in 1840?
4. What is entombed in a cenotaph?
5. A sound change within a word that indicates grammatical information is known as what?
6. What is the name of the bird in the Peanuts comic strip?
7. In 1930, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina began a thirty-one year dictatorship of where?
8. The inaugural day-night cricket test game played at the Oval, Adelaide, Australia, in November 2015 was played between Australia and which other country?
9. Which of these is not considered a true desert?
10. What river runs through Memphis, Tennessee, USA?
11. Three Americans, artist Samuel F. B. Morse, physicist Joseph Henry, and machinist and inventor Alfred Vail, developed what in the 1830s?
12. Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey were involved with the launch of what computer application?
13. What organisation, set up to encourage scientific research, was founded in 1648 and obtained a charter from King Charles II in 1660?
14. The World Championships in which sport are held both indoors (first held in 1979, competed annually) and outdoors (first held in 1966, competed every four years)?
15. What is the name of the place where water comes out of the ground?
16. In ancient, mediaeval, and Renaissance Europe what was a trencher?
17. An oil used in cosmetics is produced in the seed of which shrub?
18. Erik Akkersdijk set a world record of 7.08 seconds at the Czech Open in 2008 ..... for what?
19. When was the Heian period in Japan, named after the imperial city at the time (modern Kyoto)?
20. Fingerprints come in three basic patterns. Which of these is not one of them?