General Knowledge Quiz 710 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who was the first female prime minister of the Republic of India, who served for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and then from 1980 until her assassination in 1984?
2. What term is used when a sports team gathers in a tight circle to strategise, motivate or celebrate?
3. Which Irish Republican, an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, was elected to the UK Parliament while leading the 1981 hunger strike to protest against the removal of Special Category Status?
4. The World Freefall Convention moved in 2001 from Quincy, Illinois, where it had been first established in 1990, to where?
5. The Democratic Party is one of the main parties in US politics. What is the other?
6. What did the 1975 Viking programme aim to do?
7. Where is the northernmost point in the African mainland?
8. Apart from Africa where is there a Table Mountain?
9. What devastating event happened in north-east Asia in May 1987?
10. The third atomic bomb to be dropped from an aeroplane was where?
11. What age was Henry III of England when he succeeded his father, King John, in 1216 during an incursion by foreign forces?
12. Cameron Carpenter, born in Pennsylvania and currently living in the USA and Berlin, was the first what to be nominated for a Grammy Award for a solo album?
13. Which battle was partly fought on Senlac Hill?
14. The matched grip, Moeller method, Open, Rudiment and Traditional grip are terms used in playing what instrument?
15. In South America, the equator crosses Ecuador, Colombia and which other country?
16. Who was president of the USA at the outbreak of World War I?
17. What is the name for the station logo or watermark played at the corner of the screen in many TV programmes to identify the channel?
18. Which of these TV series is a cartoon?
19. What is the name for the outer covering of the shell of a coconut which is made into yarn used to make matting and brushes?
20. When a sensor is attached to the tip of someone's finger or their earlobe in the course of a hospital stay what is it measuring?