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General Knowledge Quiz 194 (20 MCQs)

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1. In Jules Verne's book "20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea", who captained the submarine the "Nautilus" ?
2. What or who is Buryat?
3. The present standard model of cosmology indicates that what, not detectable directly but deduced by its effects, constitutes at least 84.5% of the total mass of the universe?
4. Which of these is an old English epic poem, of which an early 11th century manuscript is in the British Museum?
5. Which of Galileo's achievements brought him into conflict with the church, resulting in his being confined to his house for the last years of his life?
6. The oldest still operating national parliament in Europe governs which country?
7. Edward Elgar's March no 1 in D contains the tune of what song?
8. If something is served "a la bigarade", it has a sauce flavoured with which of these?
9. For whom was the Ark Royal, one of the largest vessels in Queen Elizabeth I's fleet and the flagship of Lord High Admiral Howard during England's fight against the Spanish Armada, originally made in 1586?
10. Summer and Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games were all held in 1992, the last year in which they were held at the same time, two in France and two in Spain. What also marked the Winter Paralympics?
11. What was the first full length cartoon film produced by Walt Disney?
12. Which of these phrases means "make it up as you go" ?
13. Two of the brightest stars in Earth's sky, in the constellation Orion, are Betelgeuse and ..... ?
14. What nickname for elaborate, multiple, often implausible mechanisms for achieving something very simple, comes from that of the British artist who became famous for humorous cartoons of such systems?
15. Together with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton received which award in 2018 for their work on deep learning?
16. In competitive foil fencing what is the maximum length of the blade?
17. Which town or city on the mainland is closest to the island of Montecristo, famous from the Alexandre Dumas novel?
18. Who, at the end of her Olympic career in 1964, held the record for winning the most Olympic medals at 18 and the record for most individual medals (14 outside of team events) in Olympic history?
19. In 1923 a devastating earthquake, associated fires, a 40-foot-high tsunami and succeeding violence caused an toll of dead or missing estimated at the time of over 140, 000, in which country?
20. What is most closely linked with the original meanings from which the word "person" is derived?
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