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General Knowledge Quiz 640 (20 MCQs)

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1. What was the name of the country in west Africa which, in 1975, was re-named "The People's Republic of Benin" ?
2. The Atacama area on the Pacific coast of South America is best characterised as what?
3. Who wrote "Robinson Crusoe" ?
4. Which is the nearest country to the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon?
5. Where does the River Isis, which rises in the Cotswolds in the UK, reach the sea?
6. "The Kiss" is a 1907 painting by whom?
7. What abbreviation is used to refer to a General Practitioner?
8. Which car maker has marketed models called Passat and Golf?
9. The Oregon Treaty of 1846, which divided "the Oregon Country" along the 49th parallel, gave the USA land which later became parts of Montana and Wyoming, and the states of Washington, Oregon and which other?
10. In the Christian biblical quotation, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a what than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God?
11. Porcupine grass is also known as what?
12. What astronomical instrument was used in Classical Antiquity and through the medieval Islamic world, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by astronomers, navigators, and astrologers to locate and predict the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars, determine local time or latitude, for surveying and to cast horoscopes?
13. Which of these British science fiction TV programmes was the first to start transmission?
14. Which of these countries became independent in the twentieth century first?
15. Which of these is at one end of the Suez Canal?
16. What are usually found in an aquarium?
17. Brian Lochore was coach to the New Zealand team in the first World Cup in 1987 for what sport?
18. In 1944 Iceland ended its political connection with Denmark, abolished its monarchy, and established itself as a republic, following what?
19. Which city held the 2012 Summer Olympics, making it the first city to host the Games three times?
20. Concentric circles on the sea floor near Japan, about 2 m (7 ft) in diameter with intricate ridged radial lines and valleys of sand, are what?
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