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General Knowledge Quiz 411 (20 MCQs)

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1. What was the nickname of the British army regiment called "5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards ''?
2. Where is the forest cover known as taiga likely to be found?
3. He trained as a stonemason and sculptor, was held as prisoner of war by the US for a year, was a novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, and graphic artist, and won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature. Who was he?
4. George Cukor directed which 1964 film musical?
5. Which early 20th century composer from the Basque region of France, with folk song and Basque-Spanish influences, whose music incorporates baroque, neoclassicism and jazz, became particularly well-known internationally for a piece composed for a dancer?
6. For what would one use a phenakistoscope, that was invented in 1832 simultaneously by Belgian Joseph Plateau and Austrian Simon von Stampfer?
7. In the 1953 film, what was "Genevieve" ?
8. What life forms have a medusa state as part of their life cycle?
9. Which 19th century book has been everything from inspiration to source of intriguing speculation for writers and thinkers from Robert Graves and James Joyce to Sigmund Freud and Camille Paglia?
10. Which of these is a British comedy drama TV series of 32 episodes over 5 series first broadcast between 1998 and 2003, which follows 3 couples experiencing the ups-and-downs of romance?
11. Which of these US states has a boundary closest to Salt Lake City, Utah?
12. What is the name of the foreign intelligence agency of the German government, which is under the control of the Chancellor's Office?
13. Baja California is part of which country?
14. When the Kindle e-reader was being developed what codename was used for the project?
15. An athlete who in 2013 famously became the first active professional in one of the four major US team sports to declare he is homosexual, has a twin brother who was a professional in what sport?
16. A Red Bull-sponsored freestyle competition in what sport was launched in Maui, Hawai'I, in 2000 and is now held annually in Capetown, South Africa?
17. In 2006 British politician George Galloway was widely quoted as saying that it would be "morally justified if someone chose to assassinate ..... " whom?
18. Women's judo and what other sport debuted in the Olympic Games programme in 1992?
19. What do cygnets grow up to be?
20. What 1850 agreement between the USA and Britain resulted eventually in the British Mosquito (or Miskito) Coast protectorate becoming part of Nicaragua?
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