General Knowledge Quiz 990 (20 MCQs)

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1. What comes before Zeta in the Greek alphabet?
2. What is a paronomasia?
3. Which are found in books?
4. Motorcycle speedway riders compete over how many anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit?
5. Which one of these means to raise or semi-raise one's hat?
6. Who printed his own translations of a French romance "The Recwyell of the Historyes of Troy" and "The Game and Plays of the Chesse" in Bruges in 1474?
7. The greater part of Lake Maggiore is in which country?
8. The Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, about 252 to 66 million years ago, are collectively known as what era?
9. The islands of Kos, Leros, Nisyros, Patmos and Rhodes are in what sea?
10. In cloth weaving, both the warp and the weft threads may be visible, but in tapestry, all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work. What is this type of weaving called?
11. Which is most usually associated with the word "sakura" ?
12. In depictions of the Hindu God Rama, he is famously holding what in his right hand?
13. "The Glass Universe" (2016) by Dava Sobel chronicles what scientific work, or workers?
14. In Botticelli's painting "The Birth of Venus", what is she standing on?
15. The online computer game Build With Chrome combines Lego and what?
16. The genus of beautiful and venomous marine fish called Pterois, which is invading and dominating the west Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Mediterranean Sea, is native to where?
17. Which English pop group became known for the 1982 No.1 hit "Come On Eileen", a single from their album Too-Rye-Ay?
18. Who was the president of France and Co-Prince of Andorra from 2012 to 2017?
19. What is the surname of the film director whose first names are Francis Ford?
20. What name is given to the area above the stage into which scenery can be raised?