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General Knowledge Quiz 287 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who wrote "The High Window", "The Lady in the Lake", "No Crime In The Mountains", "The Little Sister", "The Long Goodbye", "Playback", and a series of short detective novels most of which featured private detective Philip Marlowe?
2. In the game of quoits specific to Scotland and Wales, how tall does the metal pin, or hob, stand?
3. What nest at Sandy Cape, the most northern point on Fraser Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, which is protected as part of the Great Sandy National Park?
4. What is another name for a sweater?
5. The Hong Kong Sevens, a competition for seven-a-side rugby, has been held at what venue since 1994?
6. Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514) are works by which artist?
7. Whose alter ego is Sasha Fierce?
8. Which of these is a popular work by J M Barrie?
9. Nick Leeson became famous in 1995 for what activity?
10. Which UK TV drama broadcast 1991-1997 starred Robson Green and Jerome Flynn as soldiers in a fictional British Army infantry regiment, The King's Fusiliers?
11. The white fumes that form when hydrogen chloride dissolves in water consist of what?
12. What is synovium in the body?
13. Which dictator's face was printed on labels of soft drink bottles that went on sale in February 2010?
14. Who is the latest actor to portray Alan Turing's fiancée, Joan Clarke, in film?
15. Buster Keaton's film "The Three Ages" included the invention of Stone Age baseball and modern traffic problems in classical Rome. What is this an example of?
16. What was reported as being from ancient Greece by authors Lynn and Gray Poole in their "History of the Ancient Games", after they saw it carved on a stone when visiting Delphi In the 1950s?
17. When was the first Football Association Cup tournament played?
18. Which planet weighs more than all the other planets of our solar system combined?
19. In the 1890s, in what field was John L. Sullivan recognised as a world champion?
20. The word "nebula" derives from the latin word for what?
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