General Knowledge Quiz 980 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who wrote and performed the song "Rehab" that won the 2007 Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song, and Grammy Awards in 2008 for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance?
2. Who was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
3. In 1997 Bougainville gained autonomy within Papua New Guinea, after negotiations brokered by what country?
4. Which of these words best describes Wales?
5. An imam is an authority figure in which religion?
6. The American Civil War was fought in which decade?
7. Who is the parrot perch in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" ?
8. Which of these is a member of the European Union?
9. Which country is Papua New Guinea part of?
10. Where is the Sea of Tranquillity?
11. A species of elk is named after which of these US presidents?
12. With what do artists working in oils wash their brushes?
13. The Massacre of Aleppo in 1850 in Syria was carried out during which rule?
14. Which countries hosted the first three American Football World Cup (also known as the IFAF World Cup and Gridiron World Cup) contests in 1999, 2003 and 2007?
15. From 1920, when the first World Championship in Ice Hockey was decided, until 2019 which has won the most gold medals?
16. Which of these best describes the location in Italy of Mt Vesuvius, which erupted and buried Pompeii in 79AD?
17. What is 40-40 in tennis?
18. Roland, a military commander in the late 8th century in the army of Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards and eventually Holy Roman Emperor, died at the Pass of Roncesvalles in the Pyrenees. According to Charlemagne's biography who killed him?
19. Which is the highest mountain in Africa?
20. Which video game, the music for which was composed specially for the game, features composition by Nobuo Uematsu and includes work by Masashi Hamauzu, Hitoshi Sakimoto and Yoko Shimomura?