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General Knowledge Quiz 1168 (20 MCQs)

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1. The USA tested munitions on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico, a territory of the USA, until when?
2. Research published in 2023 shows a relatively abrupt change in north-western Africa from foraging to farming about 7, 500 years ago, influenced by immigration from where?
3. Which of these was a book by Dale Carnegie, first published in 1936?
4. What is the name of the major north-south mountain range dividing the flat lowlands of the Northeast (Manchurian) Plain to its east from the high Mongolian Plateau to its west?
5. First imposed in England in 1696 what tax was repealed in 1851?
6. The phrase "Here I stand. I can do no other" is popularly understood to have been said while facing what?
7. Which English novelist was arranged to be released from prison in 1703 by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, and was employed by him as a spy?
8. What does the D H stand for in the name of author D H Lawrence?
9. What is the name of an exhibition basketball team created by Abe Saperstein in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, which grew a focus on athleticism, theatre and comedy?
10. What system was the spacecraft Rosetta launched on?
11. Which king of England was called "the wisest fool in Christendom" ?
12. What country, an ideal of the "Illyrian Movement" began to become a reality after the 1918 collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, and was formally renamed (as a "Kingdom") in 1929?
13. Which of these is a Scottish dish which is, essentially, baked chicken with spinach and poached eggs?
14. What does a querulous person do?
15. Who wrote the aria "O mio babbino caro" ?
16. What was the Mars rover, Curiosity, investigating in its first ever drilling operation in 2013?
17. What relationship were the English kings Richard the Lionheart and John (of Magna Carta fame) to each other?
18. Which National Basketball Association team, whose colours are purple, gold and white, use purple uniforms for road games and gold uniforms for home games, with white jerseys for Sunday and holiday home games?
19. According to Burt Bacharach's theme for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", what "keep fallin' on my head" ?
20. Where is the Sonoran desert?
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