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General Knowledge Quiz 388 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these items is termed "whiteware" ?
2. Jill Munroe, Sabrina Duncan, Kelly Garrett, Kris Munroe, Tiffany Welles and Julie Rogers were characters in which US TV series?
3. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë tells the story of which two lovers?
4. Which of these began life as a 1954 play for radio by Dylan Thomas?
5. In the film "Home Alone", what is the name of the character who is left alone at Christmas, played by Macaulay Culkin?
6. Who wrote "Little Women" ?
7. A commentator in 1835 in England described two men at their first meeting as, variously, "full of trickery and treachery-he has no ethics" and "as deadly and as poisonous as a rattlesnake with about the same ethics"; what were they doing together?
8. Which president of the USA lent his name to a species of elk?
9. The 1969 drama "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" directed by Sydney Pollack centres on what event?
10. Which pen manufacturer was founded in 1891 in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA?
11. The singer and English TV personality Priscilla White is better known by what name?
12. Who is recognised as the first to identify, and name, dark matter in the universe?
13. She trained as a goldsmith, has been a film actress, and a lead and solo singer with international and European hits under what name?
14. Which item of footwear can be applied to starting up a computer?
15. The 1605 plot by discontented Catholics including Guy Fawkes to blow up the English parliament and their king is popularly known as what?
16. What are the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron known as?
17. What Australian weekly magazine founded by two Sydney journalists, J.F. Archibald and John Haynes, which first appeared on 31 January 1880, ceased publication on 23 January 2008?
18. "Die Fledermaus" is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II. What is a "fledermaus" ?
19. Which of these countries reaches furthest north?
20. On 12 November 1991 pro-independence student demonstrators in Dili who were protesting the Indonesian occupation of East Timor were shot at by Indonesian forces, killing at least 250. Where were they at the time?
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