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General Knowledge Quiz 517 (20 MCQs)

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1. "The Little Sparrow" was the nickname for which singer?
2. Which cricket commentator, who began his broadcasting career at the BBC in 1960 and commentated in Britain to 2005 and Australia from 1964, announced his 2010 retirement on 18 February 2009?
3. Which of the usual foods of the minute 6-celled marine animal Trichoplax sometimes appears to live internally in symbiosis?
4. Which award-winning band are named after a South African football team?
5. Why were George Atzerodt, Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell and David Herold hanged in Washington, D.C., on 7 July 1865?
6. What is one of the characteristics common to both the colobus monkey and Geoffroy's spider monkey?
7. Which of these is a dish of meat (often chicken, fish, beef, shrimp or pork) cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage and celery and bound in a starch-thickened sauce, typically served with rice and sometimes stir-fried noodles?
8. What was La Fronde in France between 1648 and 1653?
9. Behourd, quintain, mêlée, and hastilude are terms relating to what?
10. Which is a popular Indian game, using the concept of 'ring play', and originally played on chariots with strategies and tactics possibly derived from the epic, 'Mahabharata', and called Rathera?
11. Which French playwright, writing in the 20th century, produced "Les Parents Terribles", "Les Monstres Sacrés" and "Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde" ?
12. Which of these is an acute fatal disease of the nervous system characterised by convulsions and paralysis of all muscles?
13. What is a claymore?
14. What was the occupation of Edmund Hilary, the first man (with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay) to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1953?
15. There is a legend that blues musician Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for mastery of the guitar. There is a similar story about which 19th century violin virtuoso?
16. Where is the island of Montserrat?
17. Where is Netflix's 2018 musical "Been So Long" set?
18. Microsoft announced its intent in 2022 to make the largest acquisition of a tech company in history. Which company?
19. What name was given to 6 December 1745, after Scottish highlanders led by Charles Edward Stuart reached Derby, over 200 miles (320 km) into English territory, causing a financial panic in London?
20. Charity and Mercy Pecksniff appear in which novel by Charles Dickens?
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