General Knowledge Quiz 713 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these imaginary lines around the earth goes through the continent of Africa?
2. What is shigin?
3. Which of these runners is from England?
4. Which is NOT a recognised STD or venereal disease?
5. In what field are Scott Helme and Professor Alan Woodward best known?
6. Who was the second person to orbit the earth?
7. What English model, with her short-haired androgynous look, born Lesley Hornby, was discovered in 1966 by Nigel Davies when she was 16 and weighed 61/2 stone (41 kg, 91 lbs), and became "The Face of '66" with her high fashion mod look created by Mary Quant?
8. Clive Owen starred in the title role of which 2004 film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Franzoni, with Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley and Ivano Marescotti?
9. Which UK television series was, unusually, adapted from a US series of the same name?
10. What is a symptom of diabetic retinopathy?
11. What was the cause of a state of emergency in Kenya from October 1952 to December 1959?
12. Which describes the number 169?
13. When was the National Health Service (NHS), to provide good free healthcare for all United Kingdom citizens, launched?
14. Under what name was tacataca, or metegol, patented in the UK in 1923?
15. The RSMDT, started in 1927 and now known as the White Helmets, performed in what?
16. How many African countries are crossed by the equator?
17. Thomas Lanier Williams III, American playwright, became better known under what name?
18. What venue is the next in the series, Mecca, Tehran, Palembang ..... ?
19. A camp was built in 1779 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, to accommodate around 4, 200 prisoners; who were the people?
20. Which book broke the record for book sales in July 2007, selling 15 million copies in the 24 hours following its release?