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General Knowledge Quiz 611 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which 1945 film about the Italian Resistance Movement, made in the last months of World War II to a script by Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Amidei and Frederico Fellini, was virtually unnoticed in Italy but caused a stir when smuggled to New York and London?
2. What is the format for winning the World Chess Championships?
3. Which of these is a nickname for Boston, Massachusetts, USA?
4. Mr McGregor is the name of the farmer in which stories?
5. How many countries have territory bordering, or territorial claims in, the Arctic Circle?
6. Which mosquito-borne virus, though known since 1947, caused concern during outbreaks in 2015 and 2016 particularly for its suspected effect on foetuses?
7. Which of these is a 1990 film starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin & Oliver Platt as medical students attempting to find out if there's anything beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments with near-death experiences?
8. Where would one go to see Moai?
9. If someone is called a "pen pusher", what sort of occupation do they have?
10. Which of these is an early Baroque opera by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio, that was written in 1607 for a court performance during the annual Carnival at Mantua, and is still regularly performed?
11. Who painted the famous painting known as "The Night Watch" ?
12. Which of these actors won an Oscar in 1959 for his work in "Separate Tables" ?
13. In 2015 Manny Pacquiao fought Floyd Mayweather in a fight billed as what?
14. The mountainous country which begins as the Cordillera de Guanacaste rising in the north of Costa Rica, continuing into the Cordillera de Talamanca, peters out where?
15. What does the "P" stand for in the international athletes organisation, formed in 2007, WFPF?
16. In 1983, Mandy Smith, when aged 13, began dating which 47 year old?
17. Which of these painters was born in Greece?
18. In Greek mythology, who were the band of heroes who accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece?
19. Early in the 12th century a boy named Astrolabe was born to whom?
20. Which 20th century English author wrote "Ruined City", "A Town Like Alice" and "On The Beach" ?
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