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General Knowledge Quiz 809 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the name for radiations of a wavelength shorter than, and immediately next to, the visible spectrum?
2. Which German-American structural engineer and designer was Chief Engineer for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco?
3. Which country has the highest population density in the world?
4. In its early use in the Middle Ages, what was one of the main meanings of "daunger" (modern "danger")?
5. Which of these is a mythical monster that possessed a deadly touch to plants and an evil eye that killed humans and animals?
6. In general what is the maximum time applied to competitive eating contests, where the aim is to eat the most of some food in a set time?
7. What was the name of the alliance of trading cities and their guilds, each with their own law system and with armies for mutual aid, that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland, from the 13th to 17th centuries?
8. What is the common name for the sternum?
9. Which of these qualities are actor Geoffrey Rush, artist David Hockney, composer Alexander Scriabin, writer Vladimir Nabokov, and poet Bob Dylan understood to have shared?
10. The game, scatter jacks, jackstones, snobs, astragalus, tali and dibs among other names which has been played in various forms in every continent, was played with bones from what part of an animal's body?
11. Where does the phrase "show me the money" come from?
12. "Thrombus" is another word for which of these?
13. Which was most used by Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote?
14. Who or what were hoplites?
15. Mixing the colours red and blue results in what colour?
16. As at 2019, which country leads in medals in equestrian events at the Olympic Games?
17. The ostrich, emu, rhea, kiwi and the extinct "elephant bird" of Madagascar and moa are all types of what diverse group of large, flightless birds?
18. In 2015 there was an upsurge of inaugural national championships in what sport?
19. Which country forcibly colonised the island now known as Taiwan in 1895?
20. Soccer player George Best once said that he spent 95% of his money on wine, women and song, and the other 5% he ..... what?
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