General Knowledge Quiz 20 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which is a pre-cancerous condition?
2. What unfortunate link do Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes have?
3. Which of these is an American vulture of the Andes?
4. Which of these was not one of the first three countries to receive an internationalised country code top-level domain (i.e. that employs a non Latin alphabet) in the Internet Domain Name System?
5. Which of the following was largely responsible for the British application of radar in World War II?
6. When Russia became a communist state in 1918 with Lenin as virtual dictator, who was his foreign secretary?
7. Which BBC drama series, starring Peter Davison, Graham Crowden, David Troughton and Barbara Flynn, was rated in 2010 by "The Guardian" as 5th in their list of "The Top 50 TV Dramas of All Time" but ran for only 2 series, in 1986 and 1988?
8. Which country declared war on Mexico on 13 May 1846?
9. The islands of Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii and New Caledonia are in which ocean?
10. According to The Bible, who was the older brother of Moses, who set up a golden calf on Mt Sinai for people to worship?
11. Which of these seas is not on the coast of Asia?
12. Which of these developed an early version of a computer in the 19th century?
13. The London embassy of which country was seized in 1980 by gunmen demanding the release of political prisoners?
14. Magnus Carlsen, on the way to becoming World Champion, was frequently the world's youngest what?
15. The award-winning 1982 film "Gandhi" was filmed in the UK and what other country?
16. Who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" ?
17. What was the name of the wife of Herman Munster?
18. Which author, poet, playwright, actor, Shintoist and nationalist committed seppuku in 1970 after declaring "Long live the Emperor" ?
19. What relationship had the Sword of Damocles to Damocles?
20. Why was the annual steeplechase known as the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the most valuable non-handicap chase in Britain, not run in 2001?