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General Knowledge Quiz 1006 (20 MCQs)

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1. Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, born on the Danish island of Zealand, beginning his professional jazz career aged 14 and remaining active until his sudden death in 2005 aged 58 in Copenhagen, is best known for playing what instrument?
2. Someone who has an abnormal fear of dogs is suffering from what?
3. What is the basis of "pesto" sauce?
4. What statistical term is used in government, marketing or opinion research to denote the characteristics of a population?
5. Which is the odd one out among tahini, hummus, tamarind paste, and tofu?
6. Ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympic Games opened in Mexico, what tragic and related event happened?
7. Which of these disappeared from his job at the British Foreign Office in 1951, at the same time as Donald MacLean, so that both were suspected of spying for Russia?
8. What name was given to the number 10 to the power of 100 (i.e. 1 followed by one hundred zeros) by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner?
9. What are moss, stocking and garter?
10. What is a description of the inflammation of a nerve or the general inflammation of the peripheral nervous system?
11. A hexagon has how many internal angles?
12. Until the Kingdom of Hellas (Greece), newly recognised internationally as independent in 1832, chose and established its capital in Athens which city served as the Kingdom's capital?
13. What weapon, used by some African tribes, is a light throwing spear, tipped with iron?
14. What appeared in the Netherlands in 1608, developed by Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen and Jacob Metius, and improved by Galileo in 1609?
15. Why was Muhammad Ali stripped of his 1964 world heavyweight boxing title?
16. A succession of referendums have been held for which commonwealth to decide whether, among other options, to become the 51st state of the USA?
17. On 17 June 1994, what vehicle was O J Simpson driving in a slow-speed chase by police at 35 miles per hour (56 km/h)?
18. The small (25 sq. km) Pachpadra Lake in the mostly arid Barmer district, Rajasthan, northwestern India, is noted for what?
19. Vientiane is the capital of which country?
20. The main characters of which of these plays are real estate salesmen?
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