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General Knowledge Quiz 1056 (20 MCQs)

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1. What was worn in the 19th century in the west by women to give shape to the lower back?
2. Where is the city of Basrah?
3. What is the name for the period of French history from 2 December 1852 (when Napoleon III became Emperor) to 4 September 1870 (when the Third Republic was set up after the Battle of Sedan)?
4. In what game are the Marshall Attack or Defence gambits usually played
5. French woman Suzanne Lenglen dominated which sport in the 1920s?
6. Which is known as the hottest desert in Mexico?
7. The range running the length of the island of Borneo, from Mt Kinibalu in the north east to the south west Muller Mountains, is the line of divide between the administrative government of Indonesia and what?
8. What country was often called in western countries a "hermit kingdom" over the later part of the 16th to the beginning of the 20th centuries?
9. Phenolics are what?
10. According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who had "a long grey beard and a glittering eye" ?
11. The Easter Rising, an insurrection staged during Easter Week 1916 with the aim of ending British rule, was where?
12. Who was the hero of a number of tall stories by Rudolph Erich Raspe, published in 1785?
13. The 50.5 km Channel Tunnel, built under the English Channel or, in France, La Manche, to link the UK and France with road and rail access was finally opened in 1994. When was the first official Anglo-French protocol established to create the railway aspect of the link?
14. What is the word for the minimum number of people that must be at a meeting for it to become official?
15. How many islands greater than 1, 500 sq.km are shown in a map of New Zealand?
16. What type of dog is traditionally used above the Arctic Circle to pull sleds over snow?
17. How many sports were competed at the first Olympic Games in 8th century BCE?
18. Which romantic UK TV series aired from 1992 to 2005, written by one half of the scriptwriting duo behind "The Good Life" and "Ever Decreasing Circles" ?
19. Which is the fretted string instrument, part of the lute family, found in north Thailand?
20. In which of these was there a lamassu from 1952 to 1979?
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