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General Knowledge Quiz 266 (20 MCQs)

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1. In July 1946 the Philippines claimed its independence from what country?
2. What sort of pie is a critical plot element in Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan" ?
3. The first band-specific game in the "Rock Band" series of music video games, where players simulate playing music using controllers shaped like musical instruments was "The Beatles:Rock Band" . Who was the subject of the next one to be released?
4. In "Coronation Street", what did Tracey Barlow name her daughter, born in 2004?
5. What does the term "barleycorn" not refer to?
6. Which of these is a game thought to have been commercialised in 1760 by John Spilsbury, a London mapmaker and engraver?
7. Where did the old woman who "had so many children she didn't know what to do" live?
8. What type of aircraft powerplant uses a gas turbine to drive a propeller?
9. With which sport is Nadia Comăneci associated?
10. A widespread National Football League controversy about a game in January 2015 in the USA was called, colloquially, what?
11. What is the word for a moving camera platform?
12. What very popular sport, introduced to England by the Romans, was banned temporarily under Cromwell and finally outlawed in 1849?
13. What play ends "So give me your hands if we be friends and Robin shall restore amends" ?
14. Under what name did Helen Porter Mitchell perform opera?
15. Which English King died of dysentery while campaigning in France?
16. Which scientist allegedly used mirrors to focus the sun's rays to burn Roman ships during the Siege of Syracuse around 214-212 BC?
17. When he took office on 9 May 2009, the President of which country was pictured with three women who were said to be his wives:Sizakele Khumalo, Nompumelelo and Thobeka Mabhija?
18. The Canary Islands in the Atlantic are named after what?
19. Which was a musical instrument used by NZ group From Scratch in records they released 1985-7?
20. Who was physician to James I and Charles I, and whose chief discovery was to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart, which he published in 1628?
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