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General Knowledge Quiz 1131 (20 MCQs)

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1. According to ancient sources, the principal ingredient of absinthe was sometimes used medically to do what?
2. When was curling first played as a Winter Olympic sport?
3. What was the name given to the largest alluvial gold nugget discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, Victoria, Australia on 5 February 1869?
4. When is the annual five day Diwali Festival celebrated?
5. What was the name of the line of fortification that ran across Italy during World War II from just north of where the Garigliano River flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, through the Apennine Mountains to the mouth of the Sangro River on the Adriatic coast in the east via Monte Cassino and Monte Cairo?
6. What is the most likely use for a privet shrub?
7. What is one aspect which singles out the Indus River from other rivers in Pakistan?
8. Who were the father and son who appeared in Cecil B DeMille's 1957 epic film "The Ten Commandments" ?
9. What game has as its object getting a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) across a horizontal table past wooden pins into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs without knocking the pegs over?
10. Which of these whales is the largest toothed animal?
11. A bagel is a type of what?
12. What trading company was a major influence on the growth of the city Gothenburg in Sweden during the 18th and early 19th centuries?
13. Which of these is a type of international code?
14. Prior to its annexation by the USA in 1898, Hawaií had been a republic for about four years. What was it immediately before that?
15. The first successful public operation under which anaesthetic was carried out at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846 by William Morton?
16. Which of these is the oldest known complex scientific calculator, sometimes called the first analogue computer?
17. The tiny area of Walvis Bay (a deep harbour) and the Penguin Islands in Namibia were under the control of which other country until 1994?
18. At which battle, which began on 4 May 1942, were Japanese losses at least 7 warships, with over 20 others damaged, and USA losses included the aircraft carrier "Lexington" and two other ships?
19. Which of these is an Australian state that is all on one island?
20. New Zealand author Margaret Mahy is known for writing what?
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