General Knowledge Quiz 83 (20 MCQs)

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1. What does the company Faber and Faber Ltd do?
2. The Dalton Minimum (roughly 1790-1830) and the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715) are associated with periods of cooler temperatures around the world, and refer to what?
3. Which of these is a board game?
4. Which of these famous scientists could escape the schoolyard nicknames of Copperknickers, The Great Newt, or The Eddystone Lighthouse?
5. What genus of grass is also known as kaffir corn, dhurra, Guinea corn and Indian millet?
6. Which of these parts of a horse's harness is the rear-most?
7. What are Halley's, Hale-Bopp, Kohoutek, West, Hyakutake and McNaught?
8. What was the first nation to recognise the USA as an independent nation?
9. What fruit gets its name from its similarity to the locally native word for testicle?
10. In the UK TV series "Coronation Street", which of these were the last to be married?
11. What game requires 6 hoops and 2 posts set up on a ground around 35 yards by 28 yards?
12. What is the name for someone who engages in the scientific study of fermentation?
13. Which of these establishments is based in Langley, Virginia?
14. Duck or goose feathers, from the left wing only, are used in what?
15. Where is Luxor?
16. What is the main ingredient, apart from icing sugar, in Royal icing?
17. Where is Komodo National Park?
18. An oenophile is fond of what?
19. Who won a Nobel prize in 1918 "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta", established a major Law of Radiation and sparked the development of Quantum Theory from 1900?
20. The 2011-12 and 2015-16 World Champion in men's individual archery, Kim Woo-Jin, represents what nation?