General Knowledge Quiz 834 (20 MCQs)

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1. Manfred von Brauchitsch from eastern Germany, who drove in Grand Prix and European Championships in the 1930s winning, and sometimes losing with spectacularly bad luck, was associated with what car?
2. After a long history of forceful action, genocide, theft and forced trading carried out by various countries and trading blocs, Britain captured the islands of Maluku, or the Moluccas, over 1796 to 1810, and held them until 1817. What were the islands called in the west?
3. The first nuclear reactor was built in 1942 in which US city?
4. Between 1950 and 1953 the US forces are said to have dropped 635, 000 tons of bombs and 32, 557 tons of napalm across what country?
5. The river which carved out the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, is thought to have begun in its present course about how long ago?
6. How far away is the nearest known system, as of 2022, that astronomers are reasonably confident contains a black hole?
7. Idi Amin, dictator in Uganda from 1951 to 1960, was a champion in his country in what sport?
8. Generala, or Dados, is what kind of game?
9. Which sea serves the Port of Karachi and Port Bin Qasim in Pakistan?
10. December 1865 Pulaski, Tennessee, USA, saw the first meeting of what notorious organisation?
11. The Schengen Agreement, a treaty signed between five states of the European Community in 1985, provided for the removal of what?
12. The game of Parcheesi involves an appropriately marked gameboard, two dice, players and what else?
13. Which boxer was known as the "Manassa Mauler" ?
14. Which 1982 album by Dire Straits included the tracks "Telegraph Road", "Private Investigations" , "Industrial Disease" and "It Never Rains" ?
15. FIA introduced a new racing category, with its first race in September 2014 in Beijing, China, and finishing June 2015 in London, UK. What distinguishes it from the other categories?
16. Under the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), which followed the War Of The Spanish Succession, Spain ceded Minorca and which other area to Britain?
17. Who were the contenders in the longest cricket test match ever played?
18. Which of these cities is the highest administrative capital in the world?
19. Which film musical ends with "Eliza? Where are my slippers?"
20. Which one of these explains the meaning of "silly" ?