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General Knowledge Quiz 143 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is a word for poetry which has trite, clichéd, or overly sentimental content, forced or imprecise rhymes, faulty metre or misordering of words to force correct metre?
2. Who patented the phonograph in 1878 (after developing and demonstrating it the previous year)?
3. Which of these, one of the two most powerful battleships built by Germany in World War II, was destroyed while hiding near Tromsø on the Norwegian coast by RAF bombers?
4. Who is the writer for the TV series "Absolutely Fabulous" ?
5. What word describes a vertical window in a projection from a steeply sloping roof of a building?
6. What tennis tournament, first played in 1877, is the oldest in the world?
7. By what name is Iosif Vissarionovich Izhugashvili better known?
8. Which 1938 novel of growing up and its hard choices in the backwoods of central Florida following the American Civil War, was both the best-selling novel in the US for 1938 and the Pulitzer Prize winner for 1939?
9. What shape are the 6 faces of a cube?
10. Initially mentioned in a 1906 trade magazine, later described in Dorothy Levitt's book "The Woman and the Car", then used in Ray Harroun's racing car, what did Elmer Brigg call it after he patented it in 1911?
11. Suspension, hump and cantilever are all types of what?
12. Through how many of the 5 boroughs of New York City does the New York marathon run?
13. By what name is Mrs Montagu Barstow better known?
14. Which of these is not one of the four phases of the moon?
15. Norman Wisdom and Fulton Mackay, together with Judi Dench and Stephanie Cole, starred in which critically acclaimed 1981 BBC "Playhouse" TV play?
16. At 114.5 metres (376 ft) tall, the ArcelorMittal Orbit observation tower is Britain's largest piece of public art. Where?
17. Which of these dates has never been proclaimed to be Thanksgiving by US congress or president?
18. Which of these mountains is the highest?
19. A board marked in the appropriate pattern is needed for which of these games?
20. Taking 0 BC as a point in time (not a year in its own right), what is the last day of the first decade of the third millennium?
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