General Knowledge Quiz 774 (20 MCQs)

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1. What tuning is the cavalry trumpet most often used for sounding the Last Post in British cavalry and Royal Regiment of Artillery (Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Artillery)?
2. Vellum, a type of parchment, was originally made from the skin of which animal?
3. In May 1999, the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic in the northwestern Caucasus conducted its first what?
4. If you travel down the Zarumilla River on the border between Peru and Ecuador, where do you arrive?
5. Olympic weightlifters are permitted, in addition to a close-fitting one-piece leotard, to wear what?
6. Bukhara (or Bokhara), one of the ancient cites on the Silk Road, is in what present-day country?
7. The first international hot air balloon flight by Jean-Pierre Blanchard in 1785 was between France and which other country?
8. A hit for the Marvelettes, the Beatles and the Carpenters was "Please Mr ..... who?
9. Which of these is subject to scientific debate about whether it is a bear (classified in the Family "Ursidae" ), a racoon (a "Procyonidae") or a type all of its own ("Ailuridae")?
10. What was Kriegsspiel developed for?
11. In which country, in 1984, did its Prime Minister bar nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from using its ports or entering waters?
12. Which of these is not green?
13. The Celtics are a professional basketball team based where?
14. "Coppélia", a sentimental comic ballet with original choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to a ballet libretto by Saint-Léon and Charles Nuitter and music by Léo Delibes, was based upon two macabre stories by whom?
15. In the 18th century, whale bone was used universally in making which of these?
16. Who created the English schoolboy "William" ?
17. Who was Christianity's first openly gay bishop in a major Christian denomination believing in the historic episcopate?
18. Where was the only national team boycott at a Winter Olympic Games, which was when the Taiwanese athletes arrived at the Olympic village with their Republic of China identification cards, were not admitted, and left in protest?
19. The 1988 Winter Olympics saw the debut of the national bobsleigh team from where?
20. The internal angles of a rectangle add up to how many degrees?