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General Knowledge Quiz 521 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which band's seventh album "In Rainbows" was released through their website on 10 October 2007 as a download for which customers could make whatever payment that they wanted, even nothing?
2. "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll", a 1955 play by Ray Lawler, is set in Carlton, a suburb of what city?
3. Which British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet who had strong views on matters such as immigration, national identity, monetary policy, and the UK's entry into the EEC, was a Conservative Party MP 1950 to 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP 1974 to 1987?
4. What is the name of the whirlpool system between two islands of the Lofoten Group north west of Norway?
5. Unlike many artists he was extremely wealthy from the income from his work during his lifetime, and was given his country's highest honour for his work; who was he?
6. In organic substrates what is the prime means of generating adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in the absence of oxygen?
7. Who was Prime Minister of the UK on 28 March 1979, when the House of Commons passed a Motion of No Confidence, forcing a general election that was won by Margaret Thatcher?
8. What substance was believed by Alchemists to transmute other metals into gold?
9. Which British show, featuring adult contestants and broadcast by the BBC on 31 May 1938, is generally held to have been the world's first TV game show?
10. Which Scotsman was given a ship by Americans to harass English shipping near Great Britain, and later became an admiral in the Russian Navy of Catherine The Great?
11. Jocky Wilson, an unemployed coal delivery man and miner, was World professional Champion in 1982 and 1989 in what sport?
12. What cocktail is made with advocaat and lemonade?
13. Which country declared a state of emergency on 8 November 2005 as a result of prolonged rioting, allegedly provoked by the death of 2 teenagers?
14. Which country is known as "The Land of 1, 000 Lakes" ?
15. The Boer War was fought in which country?
16. What was the flight number of the aircraft which disappeared in 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and has still not been traced?
17. In Walt Disney's "Snow White", which dwarf was completely bald, with not even a beard?
18. Which wonder of the ancient world was at Olympia?
19. What is another word for a hiccup?
20. In the middle of the 16th century in what is now known as Nigeria, the warrior Queen Amina (or Aminatu) ruled where, expanding it and making it the first united Hausa kingdom?
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