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General Knowledge Quiz 318 (20 MCQs)

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1. When did the song "Singin' in the Rain" first appear in a film?
2. Which school is the setting for the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle" ?
3. Which of these is not a slang word related to stealing?
4. What device, invented by Peter Cooper Hewitt in 1902 and obsolete by 1975 with the introduction of devices such as the silicon diode and thyristor, converts alternating current to direct current by means of putting electricity through vapor?
5. What kind of music did Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky write?
6. What is the profession of the two main characters in Luc Besson's 1985 film "Le Grand Bleu", or "The Big Blue" ?
7. What is the name for the branch of astronomy that relates to precise measurements and explanations of the positions and movements of celestial bodies?
8. What is the direct source of power which drives a Newcomen pump?
9. Which university, in 1878, was the first in Britain to make all degrees open to women?
10. The intergovernmental East African Community includes five African nations, the Republics of Burundi and Kenya, and three more nations; which of these is not one?
11. In the mid-twentieth century, American antiques dealer William H. Guthman was among the first to reframe 18th century carving or painting on what, as colonisers' folk art?
12. Before her marriage what was the name of Maria Feodorovna, wife of Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II the last Tsar of Russia, and the recipient of the first royal Fabergé egg?
13. Which was the youngest of these four solo acts to reach number one on Billboard magazine's weekly pop singles chart?
14. In 2020, when did the International Olympics Committee (IOC) schedule the first Olympic Games in Africa?
15. Which of these was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, political activist and poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005?
16. Berbera, Bossaso, Merca and Kismayo are what?
17. Which German was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF & UHF radio waves?
18. Which of these sports is thought to be second only to archery as the oldest British outdoor game?
19. Who featured on the 2006 UK #1 single "Thunder in My Heart Again" by Meck?
20. What is "Yakitori" ?
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