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General Knowledge Quiz 354 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the closest description of the interior of South Africa?
2. In 2004 Sri Lanka deprived what people of the right to have an identity card?
3. A moratorium on capital punishment throughout the US for about four years was occasioned after a 1972 decision by the US Supreme Court. What was the decision?
4. "Death Comes to Pemberley" (2013) is a television series extending the situation of characters introduced by which 18th/19th century author?
5. A critic hailed "Les Misérables", when it was first published in 1862, as "exaggerated and inflated nonsense"; what would have been a simile for that description?
6. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018, Donal Ryan's novel, "from a low and quiet sea", explores what?
7. Which medal, originally called the Badge of Military Merit, was established by George Washington in 1782, awarded to only 3 Revolutionary War soldiers, and not proposed again officially until after World War I?
8. What did the Romans call Ireland?
9. In the 1980s one of the matches between Australia and New Zealand in One Day International cricket was infamous for what?
10. Which film, that opens at the annual presentation of the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement, focusses on the personality clash of two stage actresses played by Bette Davis and Anne Baxter?
11. What is the name of the principle that "if two explanations account equally well for a particular phenomenon, the one to be chosen is the one with the fewer assumptions" ?
12. Who is singer and actor Miley Cyrus's godmother?
13. The sign language used in some stock exchanges to buy and sell is called what?
14. Who won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, married Kris Kardashian in 1991 and from 2007 starred in the E! reality series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" ?
15. What is the conifer native to the west coast of North America that grows to over 300 feet high?
16. Historically, lead poisoning was recognised as a common industrial disease of which of these professions?
17. In 1904 the Russian cruiser "Rossia" used what, the first time it was used by a warship on the high seas during a time of war?
18. If a forest fire reaches a hill how does it change?
19. What purpose does lustration serve?
20. What condition caused by spasm of arterioles and sometimes small veins, results in the formation of small raised areas that are white or red, affecting mainly fingers and toes, which later throb and itch?
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