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General Knowledge Quiz 1084 (20 MCQs)

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1. When they played together between 1965 and 1966, John Mayall, Hughie Flint, John McVie & Eric Clapton were known as what band?
2. What is the name for a small single-headed drum, in the rim of which are fitted pairs of small circular metal plates, called "jingles" ?
3. From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, what was considered to be the Solar System's ninth planet?
4. Nancy Astor made history in Britain in 1919 by doing what?
5. How does the Bishop of Durham sign himself?
6. What constitutes a "capot" in playing the card game piquet?
7. Why was the start of the Eurasian KHL (Kontinental Hockey League) 2011-12 season of ice hockey delayed for nearly a week?
8. Of which species of plant found on the floors of east Asian forests from eastern India, Indochina, China and Japan have 93 species been formally described, and, it is speculated, there may be 200 to 300?
9. Which multiple award-winning American TV series (the first of which was broadcast in 2011) was filmed in Northern Ireland, Croatia, Iceland, Spain, Malta, Morocco, Scotland, and Canada as well as the USA?
10. Which of these was not a nickname for George Herman Ruth, Jr, the American Major League baseball player from 1914-1935?
11. Which naval battle took place in December 1939, the second naval battle in the events for the Second World War?
12. When the Itaipu Dam was filled in 1982 it submerged what spectacular Falls?
13. Which of these aircraft was built last?
14. Which of these countries was an ally of Germany at the start of World War II, and its enemy by the end of it?
15. Iō-tō, also known previously as Iwo Jima, is part of which country?
16. In the USA, what is special about 2 February?
17. Where in the UK is the Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum, a statue of James Cook as a boy by Nicholas Dimbleby, and a granite obelisk that marks the original site of the Cook family home?
18. Which American vocalist (described by the British newspaper "The Guardian" as "one of the greatest voices of her generation") whose repertoire included jazz, blues, folk, gospel and pop, was unknown outside Washington, D.C., until after she died of melanoma in 1996?
19. The films "The Hunt for Red October", "Patriot Games", "Clear and Present Danger" and "The Sum of All Fears" feature which character created by Tom Clancy?
20. One of the actors in the TV series "The IT Crowd" (2006-2013) also appears in which of these other TV series?
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