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General Knowledge Quiz 463 (20 MCQs)

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1. On 3 May 2010 United and which other airline announced a stock-swap to combine them into the world's largest airline?
2. According to the Beatles, who had a Lonely Hearts Club Band?
3. Around 2, 000 of which type of rocket-propelled pilotless bomb was launched on London from 8 September 1944 to March 1945?
4. Elizabeth II is (in August 2022) the Queen regnant of how many independent sovereign states known informally as the Commonwealth realms, for which she holds each crown separately and equally in a shared monarchy?
5. The Indian dish "Dopiaza" is named for the Indian word for which of these, which is an ingredient?
6. What British sitcom that aired from 1979 to 1981 in the UK, starred Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles?
7. When was the company, the Tabulating Machine Company which later joined with three others to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, first launched?
8. When did Telefónica Romania, the first mobile phone operator in Romania, launch the Telemobil service?
9. Who, called the "King of Jazz", was the leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, commissioned and debuted George Gershwin's jazz-influenced "Rhapsody In Blue" in 1924?
10. Which group recorded the satirical look at the music industry "Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One" ?
11. Where would you meet the terms straight rail, cushion, balkline, artistic and cowboy?
12. Who officially represented Brazil at the opening of the 2016 Rio Olympics?
13. Who plays Gabrielle Solis in the US TV series "Desperate Housewives" ?
14. Which opera shocked audiences at its première due to a combination of a biblical theme, the erotic and the murderous, especially "The Dance of the Seven Veils" and the heroine making necrophiliac love?
15. The US TV series "The In-Betweeners", the remake of the UK series of the same name, featured the writer of "My Name is Earl" Brad Copeland for several episodes, and director Taika Waititi from the 2004 Academy Award nominated short film called what?
16. What did the London Agreement 1949 concern?
17. The Paraguay/Paraná River basin covers about 2, 800, 000 sq. km (1, 081, 000 sq. miles) of Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina and where else?
18. Which of these Canadian provinces is landlocked?
19. NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) welcomed which new member on 6 May 1955?
20. Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, as well as creating what became the cult British sci fi TV series "Thunderbirds", created what series around the adventures of a 9 year old boy?
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