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General Knowledge Quiz 541 (20 MCQs)

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1. In the USA which birds are reportedly most often involved with aircraft in bird strike?
2. By what name is Siddhartha Gautama better known?
3. The first commercial (non-state) flights to carry a civilian to the edge of space happened in which year?
4. What is panela or gur made from?
5. What architectural term was applied by the Romans to any public building built in a rectangle twice as long as it was broad with an internal 2 storied colonnade?
6. Frederick III of Swabia, elected king of Germany in 1152 CE as Frederick I, crowned Holy Roman Emperor and King of Italy in 1155, and extending empire over much of Europe, was popularly known as what?
7. Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey were in which politically incorrect (at least on the surface) comedy UK TV series 1992 to 1997?
8. Apart from a board marked in squares what do the players of the strategy game, Go, need to play a game?
9. What does the O J stand for in O J Simpson?
10. Which of these was Prime Minister of Great Britain?
11. The British conquest of which country began in 1824 in response to its attempt to invade India, and from 1886 to 1937 was administered as a province of British India when it became a separate, self-governing colony?
12. What phrase is applied to people temporarily in charge of a child?
13. Before 2019 what was Le Grand K?
14. What famous and still surviving structure was built in Rome by the Emperors Vespasian and, later, Titus between about 70 and 80 CE?
15. In World War I, the troops of New Zealand and what other country were formed into a single Army Corps called ANZACs?
16. Which of these is a British TV series (which has the alternative title of "MI-5") that follows the work of a group of intelligence officers based at their Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid?
17. Which space telescope was carried into orbit by a space shuttle in April 1990?
18. Which of these was a famous American photographer who worked between the 1960s and the 1980s photographing statuesque male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and highly formal portraits of artists and celebrities?
19. Edward Somerset, Denis Papin, Thomas Newcomen and James Watt are known for work in relation to what?
20. The comment "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor" is ascribed to which writer?
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