General Knowledge Quiz 477 (20 MCQs)

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1. Labour laws in the UK and France in 1833 and 1841 respectively prohibited employment (in certain types of factories) of people below which age?
2. What was the sub-title of the book "The Snow Goose" by US writer Paul Gallico?
3. What new radio edit was created of a 2009 song by Britney Spears because the original caused controversy in many English-speaking countries due to its use of a double entendre in the chorus?
4. Which of these is a USA possession in the Greater Antilles, east of Hispaniola?
5. What is an affliction of nose, throat, upper air passages and eyes caused by over-sensitivity to proteins of pollen in certain plants?
6. What profession is referred to in the title of the UK TV series "The Professionals" (1977-83)?
7. Which of these is a disease caused by a lack of Vitamin B1, characterised by inflammation of the peripheral nerves with subsequent paralysis, dropsy and heart failure?
8. What did Edgar the Atheling spectacularly fail to do in England in 1066?
9. Which British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team won four drivers' and two constructors' world championships in its 30-year Formula One history?
10. Who married Sir Winston Churchill?
11. Which two countries are closest to the islands and archipelagos of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe?
12. Which of these people appeared in the TV series "The Good Life" and "To The Manor Born" ?
13. Who was mother to Napoléon Bonaparte's son and heir, also named Napoléon?
14. Where is the calcaneus bone?
15. After the guilty verdict in the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus in 897 in Rome, what prison sentence was carried out?
16. What type of sausage is usually sold in a flat circular coil?
17. According to Malory and Tennyson who was the son of Lancelot and Elaine, raised by nuns and knighted on his arrival at Camelot?
18. In June 2013 the UK's College of Arms granted which chef a personal coat of arms?
19. Which of these is a town in Ireland that is famous for the manufacture of crystal glass?
20. At the 2008 Olympic Games at Beijing, 4 countries won one medal, a gold. Which of these countries won more than that?