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General Knowledge Quiz 131 (20 MCQs)

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1. What sport is known as "the Turf" ?
2. The Mawlawฤซyah (Sufi Order) in Turkey are also known as what?
3. Which were the final Olympic Games held under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch?
4. US President Bush sent 2, 000 troops into which country to conduct regular military exercises and, after a US serviceman was shot by local forces in December 1989, ordered an additional 24, 000 troops in to take control?
5. What creates the landform known as a pingo?
6. Who wrote: "So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum." ?
7. The circuit at Parc Jean-Drapeau on รŽle Notre-Dame, a man-made island in the St. Lawrence River, is named after which winning Formula One driver?
8. What ancient Sumerian city stood on the banks of the Euphrates River between 3200 and 2300 BC?
9. Which 1955 film was withdrawn from the Venice Film Festival when the US Ambassador to Italy, Clare Booth Luce, refused to attend because the film gave too alarming an impression of conditions in US schools?
10. What type of book are accounts usually written in?
11. "Kick off" is the way that the ball is put into play in which game?
12. On Christmas Day 1100CE French Crusader Baldwin was crowned the first king of what?
13. Which of these countries has a capital city where the name starts and ends with the same letter?
14. Which of these measurements requires direction as well as magnitude to be stated?
15. In track and field competitions, what object weighing 16 pounds (7.26 kg) is thrown in the men's competition?
16. Where is the lowest point in South America?
17. He was known for a stellar career as a dancer and choreographer, and an almost parallel career as an actor included the role of the spine-chilling Child Catcher in the film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968); who was he?
18. What did the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919 mark?
19. Where did the biscuit-making company called Peek Frean first appear?
20. The Yakshas, Nagas and later Tamils are some of the early peoples of what modern country?
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