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General Knowledge Quiz 156 (20 MCQs)

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1. What would one use a spurtle for?
2. Emilio Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Vicente Fernández, Gilberto Gil and Carlos Santana were the first 5 recipients of which award from 2000 to 2004?
3. In 1527 Rome was comprehensively sacked and its people massacred (although not by an invading country but by troops of discontented foreign soldiers) in the course of what war?
4. What is the ninth month of the Muslim year, a period of fasting during which there is strict abstinence during daylight from food, drink and perfume?
5. What is an anodyne?
6. Which is an official spoken language of China?
7. Sledge, tack, claw, framing, upholstery, ball-peen, twist, dog-head and bush are all types of what?
8. In 1961 16 leading people in their field signed the Morges Manifesto, which was succeeded by what?
9. Which film starring Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren and Ben Affleck is a remake of a 2003 BBC TV mini-series of the same name?
10. On which continent are there native fauna called ostrich, lion, giraffe and okapi?
11. What does micrographia often indicate?
12. In their raiding, exploring, trading and settling in the 9th century Scandinavian Vikings took which city, and grew it into the capital of what became known as the Land of the Rus?
13. Which scandal involving an oil well on public land occurred during the presidency of Warren Harding?
14. Which previously independent country, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25-50 km (15-30 miles) off the coast of Africa, united with Tanganyika to form Tanzania in 1964?
15. Who was a boogie-woogie, blues, gospel and jazz pianist and singer who worked with various musicians including Memphis Slim and Mose Vinson and appeared in two films, but did not record his debut album until he was almost eighty years of age?
16. Who was President of the International Olympic Committee when the 2000 Games were held in Sydney, Australia?
17. What Scottish city is at the confluence of the rivers Dee and Don?
18. In which country were there Land Wars during the 1840s to 1870s between the British and the indigenous peoples?
19. What fictional Cincinnati radio station was the setting for a US TV sitcom starring Gary Sandy, Howard Hesseman, Gordon Jump, Loni Anderson, Tim Reid, Jan Smithers, Richard Sanders and Frank Bonner in 1978-1982?
20. What does the organisation "FEGUIFUT" administer?
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