General Knowledge Quiz 936 (20 MCQs)

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1. From which game do we get the expression "On a roll" ?
2. What is the greatest distance between a capital and one of its territories?
3. What sign of the zodiac is represented by a crab?
4. What name is given to a spasm of the diaphragm muscle caused by indigestion, intoxication or some forms of pleurisy?
5. The flower heads of which of these are commonly eaten?
6. Who won gold for the individual pursuit at the Track Cycling World Championships in 2009?
7. Which military decoration is awarded to recognize people "being wounded or killed in any action against an enemy of the United States or as a result of an act of any such enemy or opposing armed forces" ?
8. Which video game, released in 2009, is based on a "summoner" and a "champion", and aims to destroy a "Nexus" ?
9. Who wrote the text on which the musical "Cats" was based?
10. On 30 November 2021 what country, with the blessing of its previous ruler, became a republic?
11. What is the subject of the song "Breakin' Dishes", recorded by Rihanna and released on her 2007 album "Good Girl Gone Bad" ?
12. What do the pika who live on the high dry cold Tibetan plains most closely resemble?
13. What large peninsula lies between Iran in Asia, and Egypt and Sudan in Africa?
14. It has been a boy's name, is usually a girl's name, and is well known as the name of Peter Pan's friend in a J.M. Barrie play. What is it?
15. What do the terms lordosis and kyphosis refer to?
16. In August 2009, Britain's largest jewel robbery took place at which store?
17. What country in North Africa, bordered by Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco and the Mediterranean Sea, is the largest country on the Mediterranean, on the African continent and in the Arab world?
18. In the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson which celebrated the charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, what kind of enemy fire surrounded the brigade?
19. Which 19th century Russian's compositions include 8 operas, the ballets "Swan Lake", "The Nutcracker" and "The Sleeping Beauty", 6 symphonies and 3 piano concertos?
20. Why were the 1940 and 1944 Olympic Games not held?