General Knowledge Quiz 853 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the term used for a driver on Memorial Day weekend attempting to race in the Indianapolis 500 during the day and the Coca-Cola 600 during the night?
2. The "Pangboche Hand" is used as proof of the existence of what?
3. From which of these can the Southern Lights be seen?
4. Where is KwaZulu-Natal?
5. "The Gorbals" is an area in which city?
6. On 8 April 1933, the state government of Western Australia held a referendum on which subject, in which 68% of the 237, 198 voters voted in favour?
7. What is the element associated with the Year of the Dog in China in 2030 (by the Western calendar)?
8. What does the name of Nana, one of the centres of "The Travelling Cat Chronicles" by Hiro Arikawa, relate to?
9. When were the first Far Eastern Games, now replaced by the Asian Games, held?
10. Who "packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus" ?
11. What is a hoatzin?
12. To what office in the USA was Henry Kissinger appointed in 1973?
13. In English folklore, what symbolises fertility and rebirth?
14. Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian-born American sports coach and innovator, invented which sport in 1891?
15. These are the first lines from what song: "They asked me how I knew, My true love was true. Oh, I of course replied, Something here inside cannot be denied" ?
16. What is a frequent element in the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama?
17. In Greek mythology, what was left in Pandora's box after the evils, ills, diseases, and burdensome labour had escaped?
18. Which Texas congressman who ran a campaign to rid Afghanistan of Soviet influence in the 1980s, died in February 2010?
19. Which of these developed and produced the Malaysian feature film "Thanggam" (2019) featuring a millennial named Kumar and his elderly grandmother who come to live together but speak separate languages?
20. Robert Cecil, 1st earl of Salisbury, later Viscount Cranbourne, succeeded his father as whose chief minister?