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General Knowledge Quiz 1091 (20 MCQs)

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1. Since the first time it was run in 1951, only 3 non-Scandinavians had won the Rally of Finland before Sébastien Loeb in 2008. Which of these is not one of them?
2. Which is a poem surveying the people, kings, and heroes of Europe in the Heroic Age of Northern Europe?
3. In which song does the singer sing about "the way you wear your hat, the way you sip your tea", and "the way you hold your knife, the way we danced till three" ?
4. Tourtière, a pie popular in Canada, is made with what?
5. Which of these is a British possession on the European continental mainland?
6. Where is Uhuru Peak?
7. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI ) aims to promote air sports and recreational flying, a vision of safe participation in these, and what else?
8. What name is given to the syndrome which involves a delusion that the affected person can transform or has transformed into an animal?
9. What respected psychology professor, after exposure to LSD, wrote "The Politics of Ecstasy" and devised the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out" ?
10. In December 2009 it was decided that which of these sports would be included in the Olympic Games for the first time in 2016?
11. Where is the county of Barsetshire, which contains the county town and cathedral town of Barchester, near the towns of Silverbridge, Hogglestock and Greshamsbury?
12. What is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies, consisting mainly of psalms, said around 3 p.m.?
13. What word came to mean a disparaging description of British merchants who returned to Britain, having made a fortune in India, was originally the title for a provincial governor or viceroy of specific parts of India?
14. Where do the rivers Dart, Tavy, Teigh and Okement rise?
15. In 1974 Peter Anastos, Anthony Bassae and Natch Taylor founded what company, aimed at a playful view of traditional ballet in parody form and with men performing all roles-including en pointe-and at a focus on dance and choreography?
16. Which country set up the "Committee on Public Information" from April 1917 to June 1919 to run a propaganda campaign, and told citizens to seek out spies, which led to the creation of "patriotic organizations" ?
17. What is the name for playing the notes of a chord in sequence rather than all together?
18. Who won a Best Actor Oscar for the 1996 film "Shine" ?
19. In several ancient cultures, and still practised, there is a rite or sport known as (what)-leaping?
20. Disabilites are recognised in Paralympic competition under how many headings?
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