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General Knowledge Quiz 1133 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which female impersonator, Daniel Carroll, whose career began in 1945 and whose most famous role was in the lead of a major production of "Hello, Dolly!", died in June 2009?
2. Which of these is a novel by Ernest Hemingway, set in Spain?
3. What colour is used to describe Sagittarius A*?
4. What gives the game of crib, or cribbage, its name?
5. What was the venue for the first Olympic Games to be held in South America since the first Games in Athens in 1896?
6. Which was the first Olympic Games in which Bhutan participated?
7. In the UK in 1926 there was a General Strike that attempted to improve working conditions for which occupational group?
8. What style of French painting, influenced by Flemish and Dutch Baroque and Italian styles, with schools developed around Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens, was practised by Georges de la Tour, Simon Vouet, and the Le Nain brothers?
9. What city is known to its inhabitants as "auld reekie" ?
10. The instruments in a woodwind, or wind, quintet usually comprise a transverse flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and which other?
11. Which of these animals has hooves?
12. Which is, in British slang, a word for a contemptible or obnoxious person?
13. The system known as DOHC is installed in what?
14. The Bangkok Club System has been used in several world championship tournaments in what card game?
15. Where in Britain is "The Millennium Stadium" ?
16. He trained as a palaeontologist and geologist, but Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) is more widely known as what?
17. When was the first aircraft brought down by another in the course of World War I?
18. In which country were elections planned for 1991 stopped by the military (leading to civil war), were held in 1995, and, in 1999, after a series of short-term military leaders, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected president?
19. What distinguishes a bearded vulture, or ossifrage?
20. What is the function of the organisation which from 2009 to 2017 was known as SportAccord?
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