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General Knowledge Quiz 175 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these were invented by Elizabeth Beresford?
2. Which of these was a song written by Peter Yarrow in 1959, based on a poem by Leonard Lipton, who was inspired by an Ogden Nash poem titled "Custard the Dragon, " about a "Really-O, Truly-O, little pet dragon" ?
3. In 1878 the Princess Alice, a steamboat that took day-trippers up and down the Thames, crashed into another ship, sank, and pitched over 600 passengers into the river; 130 people were rescued but several later died. What was their death attributed to?
4. Which of these areas on the Asian continent has a shore directly on the Pacific Ocean?
5. Which of these is a London landmark?
6. Archimedes' name is still used today to describe what type of mechanical device?
7. Which is an ingredient sometimes used in making a meringue?
8. Which of these is a type of tea?
9. Stevie Nicks is mostly associated with which of these groups?
10. The first father and son win at the Oscars was in 1948 when John Huston won the award for Directing and for Writing Adapted Screenplay and his father Walter Huston won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Which film had they worked on together to win these awards?
11. Where are the Yaghan, or Yagán, people native?
12. Mrs Do-As-You-Be-Done-By features in what children's book?
13. What was the context for the 1858 Mahtra War, or Uprising, in what is now Estonia?
14. The discovery of the process of vulcanisation is most closely associated in the modern context with whom?
15. Where did Category 5 Hurricane Patricia in the Pacific, the second-most intense tropical cyclone on record worldwide, make landfall in 2015?
16. Who wrote a book about the US car industry, published in 1965, called "Unsafe at Any Speed" ?
17. Which TV series featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay that debuted in 2004 shows him visiting a failing restaurant and try to improve it in one week?
18. Cabo Delgado province is in the north of which African country?
19. The FIM is the global governing and sanctioning body of what?
20. Who was the 15th century woman who led a French army to relieve the siege of Orleans by the English army?
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