General Knowledge Quiz 807 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is another name for a Lexicon?
2. Which sporting equipment is made principally of fibreglass or carbon-fibre, or a mixture of both?
3. Whose play about the Salem witch trials in the 17th century drew parallels to McCarthyism in the 1950s?
4. Where and when did the character Worzel Gummidge first appear?
5. Which of Little Red Riding Hood's relations was eaten by a wolf?
6. Who was Queen of France as the wife of Henry II (who reigned for 15 years from 1547) and remained the dominant person in France after his death during the reign of 3 of her 4 sons until 1589?
7. Michael Douglas starred in what TV series, set in California, which ran on US TV from 1972 and 1980?
8. Whose campaign is the subject of the 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" ?
9. What was the nickname for the Boeing B-17 long-range bomber used in World War II?
10. Corsica is surrounded by which sea?
11. The 2021 TV series "The Lost Symbol", starring Ashley Zukerman and Eddie Izzard, is a prequel to what?
12. What is the traditional name for someone who is a professional copyist or writer of formal documents, such as deeds or contracts?
13. Who was the Champion at the 2017 Australian Open?
14. What was the musical work by Mike Oldfield released as an album, containing only one track on each side, in 1973?
15. The island of Taiwan is off the coast of where?
16. Which was the first of these four to be an Olympic 100 metres winner?
17. According to the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who raised Tarzan after he was orphaned?
18. Where is the VRAEM?
19. What is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar, the month of fasting, in which Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and so on from dawn to sunset?
20. Which tree, native to Western Australia, has flowers that are used to make honey, and long, straight trunks which provide a deep rich reddish-brown, termite-resistant wood with an attractive grain?