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General Knowledge Quiz 1178 (20 MCQs)

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1. In April 2014 a record BASE jump from the top of the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, involved how many people jumping?
2. What is the technical term for 4 bits of digital data?
3. In what Olympic Games did Dick Fosbury first use his, then new, technique in the high jump?
4. Which was one of the three demonstration sports featured in the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona?
5. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the 9th king of the House of Chakri, who became king in 1946 in which country, became its longest reigning monarch, and the second longest in the world, when his reign ended in 2016?
6. What ancient structures have been recorded and excavated as being built for tombs, religious and monumental use, throughout China, India, Nubia (southern Egypt and Sudan), Middle America, Greece, Mesopotamia, and Egypt?
7. Which of Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies starts with two tempestuous statements, when interpreted by the Morse code, of the letter "V" ?
8. Which of these is a type of bed?
9. Lloyd's of London, a British insurance and reinsurance market, began around 1688 in what kind of place?
10. What novel, alternatively entitled "There and Back Again", is a fantasy novel by J R R Tolkien, published in September 1937?
11. Which of these is a game for four players that is similar to whist?
12. The spacecraft Cassini in the 20-year joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission was crash landed where in September 2017?
13. What does 2 squared, plus the circumference of a circle, minus twice the product of the circle's radius and pi, minus the cube root of 8, equal?
14. What is the expression of equating two things which are in fact the same thing expressed in different words?
15. Who or what was Captain Flint in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" ?
16. In what month or months are the Winter Olympic Games held?
17. Which of these was a British actor, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, theatre and opera director, director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter between 1940 and 2004?
18. What region of the Mediterranean Sea separates Italy from Bosnia and Herzegovina?
19. The first editions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice ..... " books were given a special flavour by illustrations by which 19th century graphic humourist and political cartoonist?
20. Which of Queen Elizabeth II's children was the last to leave the single state and get married?
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