General Knowledge Quiz 879 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these countries was never a member of The League of Nations, which was created by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I?
2. Tony Hawk won 9 gold medals at what annual event between 1995 and 2002?
3. What name is given to an over-theatrical actor?
4. Which London landmark was designed by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Great Fire of London?
5. What is the name for a group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem or song?
6. An endomorph has what physical characteristic?
7. The film "The African Queen", starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was set during which war?
8. Which of these has the highest annual alcohol consumption per capita?
9. Why was Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian disqualified by the IOC from his medal for the men's 84kg Greco-Roman wrestling event at the 2008 Olympics?
10. What was the name of the otter, the subject of a novel by Henry Williamson that was first published in 1927?
11. What is the background of the character Kim in the 1901 book of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling?
12. Who is the main protagonist in the action-adventure game series, "The Legend of Zelda" ?
13. Which country in 1990 had the first female Prime Minister to give birth to a child while in office?
14. Which of these has the highest heart rate?
15. When was the scourge known in England as the "harrying of the north" carried out?
16. On television, who was the father of Meadow and Anthony Junior?
17. Before the Battle of Copenhagen, what is Nelson said to have put to his blind eye?
18. When they played together between 1966 and 1968, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker & Eric Clapton were known as what band?
19. What is the world's richest horse race in 2023?
20. In music, what word means increasing the loudness of the tone?