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General Knowledge Quiz 276 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who invented a system of cartography whereby lines of latitude and longitude are drawn at right angles?
2. What is the closest planet to the sun?
3. When the Cocos Plate collided with another tectonic plate, forcing up seabed and volcanic mountains, what two land masses were eventually linked 4 million years ago?
4. In golf, what is the term for "one stroke over par" ?
5. Which of these mountains is in Australia?
6. In the Alfred Hitchcock film "Psycho", where did the murder take place?
7. Where are the most famous examples of "cliff-dwellings", habitats of primitive peoples constructed of lime and stone in the hollow surface of cliffs?
8. Which country relinquished Puerto Rico and Cuba to the USA in 1898?
9. In 2012, 16 members of a dissident Amish group in Ohio were convicted of what?
10. What was the name of Paddington Bear's aunt, who sent him from Peru to London?
11. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is known as what?
12. The 6 Brandenburg concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach are widely regarded as among the finest musical compositions of which era?
13. What phrase means "let the buyer beware" ?
14. Where is it sometimes possible to walk from Japan to Russia?
15. The Clipper ship "Dunedin" caused excitement when it arrived in London after a 98 day voyage in 1882. Where had it come from?
16. When Lieutenant, later Captain, James Cook sailed for the Pacific Ocean in 1768 what had the voyage been commissioned to achieve?
17. Who is the player who has come closest to meeting the modern definition of golf's Grand Slam by holding all four modern major championships simultaneously?
18. How does an épée differ from the sabre used in fencing competitions?
19. Trop v. Dulles (1958) was a landmark case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the government to do what to US citizens as punishment?
20. Where is Mauritania?
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