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General Knowledge Quiz 207 (20 MCQs)

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1. What ceremony is sometimes called obsequies?
2. Which artist was given the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at Venice Biennale 2007, the first time it had been awarded to a photographer, or to an African?
3. What was the title of the novelty single released by the Israeli duo Esther and Abi Ofarim, number one for 3 weeks in the UK in 1968, that features yodelling and 1920s-style lyrics and music?
4. Before the capital was moved to the purpose-built city of Brasilia, what city was Brazil's capital?
5. What part of the body does arthrogryposis affect?
6. What is the closest city to the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator?
7. What describes Nyamuragira and Nyiragongo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
8. A filibuster is typically found where?
9. Who was the first British monarch to make a nationwide Christmas broadcast?
10. Which fabulous animal is attested to by Pliny around 77 AD, Aristotle around 350 BC and the Bible?
11. In which of these are all of a horse's feet off the ground at the same time?
12. The fall of the city of Edo, capital of the Tokugawa shogunate, in 1868 accelerated the final stages of what change in Japan?
13. What was the name given by the press to Elizabeth Short, a US murder victim who was found murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947?
14. Where is Petra, an archaeological site with rock-cut architecture and designated a World Heritage Site 1985, that was built by the Nabataeans as their capital city around 100 BCE?
15. Who were the parents of Ricky Nelson?
16. Which of these is used to measure energy?
17. Which of these is a punishment?
18. Who recorded the duet "Especially For You" in 1988?
19. Before 918 CE, when Alfred's the Great's son Edward accepted their submission, who ruled in East Anglia and parts of Mercia in England?
20. Which British singer, born Sandra Ann Goodrich, was known as "the barefoot pop princess of the 1960s" ?
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