General Knowledge Quiz 738 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where is Bass Strait?
2. Who formally opened the 2020 Summer Olympics?
3. What was the first car to be equipped with GPS as an option, which began to be marketed in 1990?
4. Which of these is a name for a fear of flying?
5. Which of these was an 18th-century German philosopher from Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) who was the last influential philosopher of modern Europe in the classic sequence of the theory of knowledge during the Enlightenment which began with John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume?
6. Where did the phrase which is said to have led to "Trip the light fantastic" originate?
7. What river holds the unusual Moconá Falls (also called the Yucumã Falls)?
8. Grace Kelly appeared in which of these classic films?
9. What is the name for an Australian Aboriginal spear-throwing device used to increase the power of a throw?
10. In the TV series "Criminal Minds", the lead characters are part of a section called the BAU. What does this acronym stand for?
11. Which musical, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows, is based on two short stories by Damon Runyon ("The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure")?
12. How did Boudica (also spelled Boudicca or Boadicea), Queen of the Iceni, die in 63 AD?
13. Which cartoon character, created by Yuko Shimizu, is depicted with a red bow and no visible mouth?
14. Neanderthals are considered one of the closest extinct relatives of what other still living creature?
15. Which of these groups of characters was invented by director Peter Jackson?
16. In "The Hobbit", what type of creature was Smaug?
17. When did Kristallnacht happen?
18. What gas is used to make carbonated soft drinks and soda water?
19. In the 19th century in Europe, cubebs, known as Piper cubeba, tailed pepper, or Java pepper, were thought to be possibly a useful medicine in the treatment of what?
20. Which is the most populous city in Ecuador?