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General Knowledge Quiz 48 (20 MCQs)

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1. What street leads to the front of Buckingham Palace in London?
2. What size is a standard professional boxing ring?
3. What is the common nickname for a steam-powered winch, widely used in logging, mining and maritime industries?
4. How many three minute rounds are there in a boxing match at the Olympic Games?
5. At which Winter Olympics was artificial snow first used?
6. What does the name of the nursing convent from which the midwives of the British TV series "Call the Midwife" refer to?
7. Why were Canadian men's rowing pair Chris Jarvis and David Calder disqualified in the Semifinal B round of the Men's coxless pair at the 2004 Summer Olympics?
8. Which claimant to the Kingdoms of England and Ireland was de facto monarch of England after the death of Edward VI for just over a week in July 1553, and was executed in 1554?
9. Which empire, established in and around Cappadocia, was powerful in Asia Minor from 1400 to 1200 BC?
10. Who played a professional boxer in a 2004 film?
11. Because of a disputed election result in December 2010, two candidates, Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara, were separately sworn in as the winner of the presidential election in which country?
12. Which 1959 film, produced by John and Roy Boulting, starring Peter Sellers as Kite and Ian Carmichael as Stanley Windrush, was about a trade union reaction to the firing of an incompetent forklift driver?
13. On 2 November 2010, the oil painting "Nude Sitting on a Divan" sold for $ 68.9 million, a record for an artwork by which artist?
14. Tommy Hilfiger is associated with which of these brands?
15. What are the main ingredients of a Waldorf salad?
16. Which of these is an opera in 3 acts composed by William Vincent Wallace, with a libretto by Edward Fitzball based on the play "Don César de Bazan" by Adolphe d'Ennery & Philippe François Pinel Dumanoir that was first produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 15 November 1845?
17. In New Zealand a sport of gumboot tossing is played. A similar sport in north western Spain or south western France involves tossing what?
18. Which of these was a very successful German fighter pilot in World War I who was shot down and killed on the Somme in 1918?
19. Until 1965, it was thought that which planet was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun, rotating once for each orbit and keeping the same face directed towards the Sun at all times, in the same way that the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth?
20. Who caused a stir in the UK on 8 January 2005 by wearing a Nazi storm trooper uniform to a fancy dress party?
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