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General Knowledge Quiz 54 (20 MCQs)

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1. What Championship is a counterpart in the Southern Hemisphere of the Five, now Six, Nations Championship in the Northern Hemisphere?
2. In Scotland, porridge is traditionally made with what?
3. Which of these is a disease affecting poultry?
4. What is the engineering term for the slope of a structure, slightly out of the vertical?
5. The song "My Kind Of Town", written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen in 1964, was about which city?
6. What name was given to teenage boys who wore drainpipe trousers and liked rock and roll in 1950s Britain?
7. Which of these is a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature?
8. Which 1962 American psychological espionage thriller was directed and produced by John Frankenheimer and starred Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury, with Janet Leigh, Henry Silva, and James Gregory?
9. Alan Bates played an escaped convict who was mistaken for the son of God in which 1961 film?
10. At which event, in 2010, was Francesca Schiavone the first Italian woman to win a tennis Grand Slam event in singles?
11. In which country is the city of Wells?
12. Which of these countries is landlocked?
13. What was the predecessor to the computer game Riven?
14. In what field is the American, Philip Glass, well known?
15. The term "New England" covers the US states of Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island and which other state?
16. Someone who deprives themselves of sleep is said to be "burning the ..... what ..... at both ends" ?
17. In 1983, the highest TV audience in the USA was set by the last episode of "M*A*S*H" . What programme broke that record?
18. In 1937 the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Simpson were married in which country?
19. In 1713 Charles XII, King of Sweden, created what position to ensure that public officials acted in accordance with the law and discharged their duties satisfactorily, and could initiate legal proceedings against them for dereliction of duty?
20. When the Mensheviks were a political force how were their opposition known?
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