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General Knowledge Quiz 47 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the "First Law of Robotics" devised by Isaac Asimov in his science fiction stories?
2. Traditionally, what are the black keys of a piano made of?
3. What term can apply to someone's mouth, a colostomy, and trepanning?
4. When is Labour Day in the USA, Bermuda and Canada?
5. What was the occupation of John Spilsbury of London, England, who is credited with inventing the jigsaw puzzle around 1760?
6. What was the catch-cry of the Three Musketeers?
7. The Tiergarten, German for "Animal Garden", is the name of both a park and a locality in which city?
8. Which of these countries was claimed to Portugal, Spain, Brazil and Argentina before becoming independent in 1828 and a republic in 1830?
9. When was the earliest recorded gambling lottery which distributed prize money?
10. What generic term describes food traditionally favoured by southern black Americans such as country fried chicken, chitterlings and black-eyed peas?
11. In England in 1778 Joseph Bramah of Yorkshire patented the first practical what?
12. What church, known as "the Irvingites" mainly due to the preaching of Edward Irving, was founded in Scotland in 1832?
13. Which British film actor and author of 9 autobiographies and 6 fiction books first appeared on a West End stage using his own first name of Derek?
14. What is the name for the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, from which Muslims date their era?
15. Who, with husband Chris Martin, called their child Moses when he was born in 2006?
16. What was the first name of the "Rambo" character created by Sylvester Stallone?
17. Which 1940 film, a story of corruption in politics written and directed by Preston Sturges, is told in flashback by a bartender about his rise to, and fall from, being a state Governor?
18. What organisation, established in 1981 similar to one established in the USA (but limited to the USA) in 1979, is housed at Wingate Institute in Israel?
19. Where was the first annual G6 leaders summit (which later became the G8) held in 1975?
20. A tabard is a type of what?
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