General Knowledge Quiz 767 (20 MCQs)

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1. The Guarani Aquifer lies under Paraguay, Brazil, and what other country or countries?
2. The Worlds Championship which in 2018 was won by China's Invictus team, is for players of what?
3. What is likely to be made with a hurdy-gurdy?
4. What would you expect if you asked for Focaccia in an Italian restaurant?
5. What was regarded at one time as the 27th letter of the English alphabet, and was formally in the alphabet from at least the 10th century CE?
6. What name, currently used for the principal chamber of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, was given by Sinn Fein to the revolutionary parliament of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic that they set up in Dublin in 1919?
7. A "land run" into which current state of the USA began at noon on 22 April 1889, when an estimated 50, 000 people lined up to race to claim 160 acre (0.65 km2) pieces of the available 2 million acres (8, 000 km²)?
8. What is a bassinet?
9. What is the meaning of "corpus delicti" ?
10. What is the word in music for any set of different notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously?
11. Who was known as "The Waltz King" ?
12. Trophies of the same name were awarded to the winners of a world soccer competition run by UEFA and CONMEBOL, a first-class cricket competition run by the ICC for 12 of its associate members, a baseball competition sanctioned by the IBAF and a basketball competition between each of the European Cup winners. What is the name of these trophies?
13. The crane fly is also known by what name?
14. Which country did long distance runner Emil Zatopek represent?
15. What are both Tony Kushner and August Strindberg known as?
16. When was there a vote and decree to abolish the French slave trade and slavery in France's overseas colonies?
17. Countries are variable in conducting a census of their populations, the count often being associated with taxation needs as was one prime example in 1086, the Domesday Book in England. What century are censuses thought to have been first carried out in England's neighbour, France?
18. What chemicals are used to transmit messages to other animals of the same species?
19. Giuseppe Rossi, who was born and raised in Clifton, New Jersey, USA, was the top scorer with 4 goals in the men's association football tournament at the 2008 Olympics. Which team did he play for?
20. Who created St Trinians, a fictional girls' boarding school, the subject of 8 books and 7 films between 1954 and 2009?