General Knowledge Quiz 798 (20 MCQs)

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1. How many books are there in the "Harry Potter" series by J K Rowling?
2. Which of these characters was created by Enid Blyton?
3. ABBA named a song after which battle?
4. Who established the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw in 1807?
5. Paediatrics is concerned with what?
6. Loch Long, in the Loch Lomond area of Scotland, UK, sometimes hosts which of these?
7. Benjamin Franklin is usually credited with the creation of the first pair of what items of optical equipment in the early 1760s?
8. Which book was published in 2015 but written before, and seen as a preliminary to, the author's only other book, a prize-winning work published in 1960?
9. What is the title of the first album by Susan Boyle?
10. The "rig veda" is a collection of scriptures sacred to which religion?
11. Where did the ancient city state known now as Palenque or Lakamha flourish?
12. To what did the light-heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay change his name?
13. Alevism shares many beliefs with what religion?
14. A time signature in music which contains two minims per measure with a beat on both, is called what?
15. Which is a name for a thin slice of meat?
16. When South Sudan was established as an country independent of Sudan in 2011 how was this done?
17. Which film, directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold and Louis Jourdan, had been a Broadway play based on a story by Colette?
18. Who wrote the poem called "The New Colossus" that is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty?
19. What does scroggin usually include?
20. On 1 July 1867 which of these happened in Canada?