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General Knowledge Quiz 100 (20 MCQs)

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1. Three members of which family, between 1781 and 1850, discovered Uranus, compiled a star catalogue, mapped all the stars in the Northern hemisphere and founded an observatory to map those in the Southern?
2. What is the next in this series:Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan ..... ?
3. Who was "Monty Python's Life of ..... ''?
4. What term is used to describe Western European architectural style for the period from the late 10th to the 12th century which was identifiably Medieval and prefigured the Gothic, yet maintained the rounded Roman arch?
5. The cleric Einhard (c.770-840) wrote a ground-breaking and much copied biography of which figure?
6. Who took the lead role in the 2014 film "The Imitation Game" ?
7. What is the name for an enthusiast for the TV series "Star Trek" ?
8. Thailand is on what continent?
9. What religion commonly identifies a fish as its symbol?
10. In November 1903, Panama declared its independence from which country to enable a treaty to be signed with the USA?
11. Which mythological lumberjack, usually believed to be a giant, was first documented in the work of US journalist James MacGillivray in 1910?
12. What was the real name of El Cid, a Spanish national hero?
13. On which planet is Olympus Mons?
14. Which of these is a bird?
15. What is the family name of the brothers, both world champion boxers, both the holders of a PhD in sports science, one also a politician and the mayor (from 2014) of Kyiv, Ukraine?
16. What was the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, first isolated on 19 October 1943 by Albert Schatz, a graduate student, in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University?
17. The wettest and greenest part of Africa lies roughly between the Tropic of Capricorn and which latitude?
18. Croatia won their first ever Olympic gold in Atlanta in 1996 in which event?
19. Which of these hats is traditionally made from straw?
20. What temperature scale is referenced to absolute zero (i.e. where there is the theoretical absence of all thermal energy)?
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