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General Knowledge Quiz 111 (20 MCQs)

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1. By the time of Julius Caesar a century, which was the body commanded in the first instance by a centurion in the Roman army, consisted of how many soldiers?
2. What is the name of the arts programme made for British television from 1978 that is identified with Melvyn Bragg?
3. When was the athletics event known as the marathon first included for competition in the modern Olympic Games?
4. Which of these is a phrase meaning "free to go where or act as one pleases" ?
5. Which pioneer of molecular gastronomy is also the founder and proprietor of 3-Michelin-star restaurant "The Fat Duck" in Berkshire, England?
6. Where are the Comoros, or the Comoro Islands?
7. Which 1936 children's book was labelled a pacifist manifesto, banned at the time in Spain, burned as propaganda in Nazi Germany, but granted privileged status by Stalin as the only non-communist children's book allowed in Poland?
8. At 8.5 million square km, and covering 5.5% of the earth's surface, what is the world's largest desert?
9. Which of these is an actor who suffers from Parkinson's disease?
10. "The Other Side of the Wind", released in 2018 by Netflix from production companies Americas Film Conservancy, Les Films de L'Astrophore, Royal Road Entertainment and SACI, was directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited by whom?
11. What was the first airship to cross the Atlantic, in 1919?
12. What term is not used to describe the fruit of the coffee tree?
13. Kailash Satyarthi, who was joint winner of 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, was renowned as what?
14. As at 2010, which team had played the most seasons of professional baseball games without winning the World Series, with their last win in 1908?
15. What links the TV shows Threshold and Ultra, and the televised version of a book series by G Martin?
16. Why was the Olympic flag raised upside down at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia?
17. Which of these territories did not pass to the control of the USA as part of the Treaty of Paris following the Spanish-American War of 1898?
18. In what sport would you use a niblick?
19. How many signs of the Zodiac are human?
20. What would you expect to find in "The Cloisters", Upper Manhattan, New York City, USA, an art museum administered by The Metropolitan Museum of Art?
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