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General Knowledge Quiz 430 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which book, winner of the Canadian Governor-General's Award for Fiction 2021, assembles six present-day Inuk stories?
2. What silver-gray, malleable and ductile, lustrous transition metal element is also regarded as a semi-precious gemstone?
3. Ranidaphobia is the irrational fear of what?
4. In Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations", who or what was Abel Magwitch?
5. San Miguel Island is part of an eight-island archipelago known as what?
6. A major USA dam, completed in 1935, was known as Boulder Dam from 1933 to 1947 at which point its name was changed by a joint resolution of Congress to what?
7. Paul Simon wrote the music for what 1998 musical?
8. When did India first participate in the modern Olympic Games?
9. Following the publication of a story in the "News of the World" on 2 May 2010, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association announced the immediate suspension of 3 time World Champion John Higgins. What was Higgins accused of?
10. Where is a diaeresis, or dieresis, used?
11. Which is Venezuela's main port, and capital city of its state of Vargas?
12. Which former General and President of South Vietnam resigned and left for Taiwan 9 days before South Vietnam unconditionally surrendered on 30 April, 1975, handing power to his Vice President?
13. What is a sphygmomanometer used to measure?
14. In the Shavian alphabet what graphics represent vowel sounds?
15. Which Liverpudlian was Prime Minister of Great Britain four times in the 19th century?
16. He was deeply interested in the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, won the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, published works in psychology in particular colour perception, but became known widely for a paradox about a cat. Who was he?
17. Which of these is a fictional character created by P D James?
18. The saying "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" is commonly attributed to whom?
19. Which of these was an Austrian composer who, though he died at the age of 31, wrote around 600 Lieder, nine symphonies, liturgical music, operas and a large body of chamber and solo piano music?
20. Internet pages run by apps such as Anonymonkey are intended for what?
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