General Knowledge Quiz 995 (20 MCQs)

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1. What system or systems does an air fryer combine in order to cook food?
2. Which of these is a diamond pattern, often used in knitting?
3. A group of quails or snipe is usually called what?
4. Which country surrounds most of the Sea of Okhotsk?
5. Which of these British army ranks is the highest?
6. The "Byzantine Empire" is the term used since the 19th century to describe the Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centred on its capital, where?
7. What is the opening line of "Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke?
8. The early use of the new technology of the wireless telegram helped British police to capture whom on 31 July 1910?
9. What was called "dephlogisticated air" by Joseph Priestley when he isolated it in 1774?
10. What is a British comic strip character created by Reg Smythe, first published in August 1957, now written by Roger Mahoney (artist) and Roger Kettle (writer)?
11. Which 2010 British film directed by Hideo Nakata is about five teenagers who meet on the Internet and mutually escalate their worst impulses?
12. Since the 17th century the name Aubusson has been particularly associated with what?
13. When would one use an auger?
14. Tennis player, Naomi Osaka, started playing in but then withdrew from which major tennis tournament citing mental health issues?
15. Cloth used to be measured in what?
16. What is the official language of New Caledonia
17. What nationality is the cinematographer Michael Seresin, who has worked on many films from Bugsy Malone (1976), Angela's Ashes (1999), The Life of David Gale (2003), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), to War of the Planet of the Apes (2017)?
18. In the English nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock", what ran up the clock?
19. What is the name of the small village near Calcutta where the first hollow-nosed rifle bullets were made?
20. What was the code name for the German invasion of Russia in World War II?