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General Knowledge Quiz 268 (20 MCQs)

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1. In Greek mythology, who was tied to a fiery wheel for eternity as a punishment?
2. What alloy is created from copper and tin?
3. What would you be expected to do with aspic?
4. In what field are excipients used?
5. If you went to Bizet's "Carmen", what would you expect to see?
6. Which of these is a small variety of a marrow?
7. Chile's coat of arms contains the country's two national animals, the Andean condor and which other?
8. What is the median of 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 25?
9. Which British television series, running from 1969 to 1982, was described by the writers of Monty Python's Flying Circus which went to air very soon after as making them "very depressed because we thought it was what we wanted to do" ?
10. What, invented by William Harbutt of Bath, England in 1897, is composed of calcium salts (principally calcium carbonate), petroleum jelly, and long-chain aliphatic acids (principally stearic acid)?
11. The 1996 Port Arthur massacre, carried out by a single gunman, took place where?
12. What is Raman spectroscopy used to do?
13. In 1835, James Pratt and John Smith were hanged outside Newgate Prison in London, in the last execution in England for this activity, after a conviction for what?
14. In which country has guerilla warfare been waged to a greater or lesser extent for over 50 years by a group called FARC?
15. "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well." This is known as what?
16. In 1985 the Greenpeace protest ship "Rainbow Warrior" was bombed and sunk by French agents in which harbour?
17. The charter of Georgia in America, when it was established in 1732, prohibited liquor and what else?
18. Some insects use a form of defence known as autothysis, which has what effect on the insect itself?
19. Which of these is a member of the cat family?
20. How often is the Elfstedentocht run?
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