General Knowledge Quiz 915 (20 MCQs)

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1. How are coffee beans harvested?
2. Which of these is not one of South Africa's three capital cities?
3. Which of these marks an increasing break between the African and the Arabian tectonic plates?
4. Who was the "Angela" whose ashes Frank McCourt included in the title of his memoir (publ. 1996)?
5. As who is Naruhito, son of Akihito, always known in Japan?
6. Which of these is a 600-mile (1, 000 km) strip of land on the Pacific coast of South America, that is believed to be the driest desert in the world outside Antarctica?
7. In which country is the area called "the Algarve" ?
8. What is the "Uroclub", invented by Floyd E Seskin of Florida, which looks like a big-handled golf club?
9. Several unexpected and late participants in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, came from which country?
10. Which musical term means "sweetly" ?
11. Who or what is the centre of the 1983 film "Let's Spend the Night Together" directed by Hal Ashby?
12. What is K-pop?
13. The practice of divining and prophesying the future through dreams is known as what?
14. What is the name of the short bar with weights at each end that is sometimes used by bodybuilders?
15. The developing Great East-West Schism between the eastern and western arms of the Christian church was marked in 1054 by which watershed event between the leaders of the two arms?
16. Where, in 1934, was land distributed to peasants, church property nationalised, the railway taken over by its employees and, in 1938, the property of US and British oil companies confiscated?
17. What type of drink is "scrumpy" ?
18. Who was the Greek goddess of victory daughter of Pallas represented as a winged figure wreathed or palm bearing sometimes guiding victors' horses?
19. Who or what took the Great Trek which started in 1836?
20. What was the name given to a type of xylophone consisting of large stones, dating from 2, 500-4, 000 BC found in China?