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General Knowledge Quiz 108 (20 MCQs)

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1. "Historia Naturalis" was a major work by whom?
2. From which sport do we get the expression "Getting to first base" ?
3. Where did Jeffrey Eugenides, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Middlesex" (2002) dealing with gender identity and gene inheritance in a Greek family, grow up, an area he saw as a haunting and continuing influence?
4. What is the stringy substance used to clean between the teeth?
5. What was the name of a comic strip created by George McManus that ran from January 1913 to May 2000 about an Irishman, Jiggs, who comes into wealth in the USA but wants to live much as he used to?
6. What was the occupation of the founder of Guy's Hospital, London?
7. Wholesale trade in diamonds, and diamond cutting, is limited to few locations. Which of these is not one of them?
8. IOC President Jaques Rogge led a spontaneous one minute silence on 23 July before the opening of the 2012 Olympics to mark what?
9. Which country lies between Libya and Algeria?
10. What was the surname of "George and Mildred" ?
11. Snail fever is caused by organisms of which genus?
12. Ex-US President Richard Nixon was disqualified from what in 1976?
13. In which sport is "lock" a position?
14. Which of these people did not win one of the four major golf tournaments in 2010?
15. Dame Mary Beard, PhD, DBE, FSA, FBA, FRSL, now a respected deviser and presenter of television programmes on Ancient Rome, and "Inside Culture", first appeared on television in which of these?
16. What is the name for 40 foot (12 meters) high round forts, designed to accommodate a small garrison with cannon, constructed on the English coast and the Channel Islands at the time of threatened invasion by Napoleon?
17. Ingredients of a Big Mac include meat patties, a bun, cheese, onion, sauce, pickles and what else?
18. Who played the title role in the 1998 film "Blade" ?
19. In 1946, what did the USA offer to buy for $ 100, 000, 000?
20. "Magic" Johnson was a leading player in which sport?
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