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General Knowledge Quiz 405 (20 MCQs)

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1. On a Monopoly board, what is the symbol for "Chance" ?
2. In which radio programme did the morbidly super-intelligent character, Marvin, first feature?
3. The Latin word from which the term "verb" is derived means what?
4. In 17th century Italian theatre what commedia dell'arte character had two fathers?
5. What did the term "scallywag" refer to in America in the 19th century?
6. The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire except for where?
7. Which of these wines comes from Spain?
8. In September 1581, Francis Drake became mayor of which of these cities?
9. Which song contains the following characters:a banker who never wore a mac even in the pouring rain, a fireman with an hourglass and a portrait of the Queen in his pocket, a pretty nurse who sold poppies from a tray, & a barber who had photographs of heads he'd worked on?
10. What book includes the characters Dill, "Boo" Radley, Scout Finch, her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus?
11. What is the answer if you multiply all of the numbers on the number keypad of a cellphone or a keyboard?
12. The major geologic exposures in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, range in age from the 2 billion year old Vishnu Schist layers at the bottom of the Inner Gorge to the 230 million year old layer on the Rim which is called what?
13. In August 1914 the UK passed an Act to give powers to suppress published criticism, imprison without trial, make regulations creating criminal offences, and commandeer resources for war effort. How was it known colloquially?
14. Which peoples are native to the Aleutian Islands, Kodiak Island, the lower Alaska and Kenai Peninsulas, and Prince William Sound in Alaska?
15. Who painted mostly in egg tempera, is best known for "Christina's World", and whose common subject was Helga Testorf?
16. Which 1st century Athenian dramatist wrote over 100 tragedies, only 7 of which survive, including "Oedipus Rex", "Antigone" and "Electra" ?
17. In music, what does the term "Adagio" mean?
18. The kri-kri is a species of what?
19. What is one of the things for which Ludwig van Beethoven is remembered?
20. The long-standing textbook, "Anatomy", by Henry Gray (1827-1861) owed much of its effectiveness to the illustrations which were drawn by whom?
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