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General Knowledge Quiz 653 (20 MCQs)

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1. What central London street is famous for containing the main government offices?
2. Epsom salts, traditionally used in bath salts and in agriculture, are what mineral compound?
3. Who was hanged on 11 November 1880 at the Melbourne Gaol, Australia?
4. What is the capital city of Australia?
5. A newly analysed human skull discovered in 1933 in northeastern China is described as a previously unknown line called what?
6. Which 2014 international conference held in Australia did Vladimir Putin leave before the closing ceremonies?
7. Hobart, Tasmania is due south of where?
8. In the movie 'Miracle on 34th Street', Kris Kringle is hired to play Santa Claus in what large department store?
9. What were the grounds for the debate about whether Russian athletes would be allowed to participate in the 2016 Olympic Games?
10. In February 1939 Madison Square Garden was the venue for a rally some 20, 000 strong in vociferous support of what or whom?
11. Which is one of the land masses closest to the Comoro Islands?
12. What is the principal ingredient of slivovitz brandy?
13. What engineering work was opened by Mayor McLellan on 27 October 1904?
14. The aims of the international organisation FIEP, originally mooted in 1900 and eventually established (as the FIGE) in 1923, are broadly speaking to promote action in what field?
15. What was the name of the enterprise, directed by J Robert Oppenheimer, to develop the first US nuclear weapon?
16. Which of the following people made their debut as a dancer in 1908, appeared with the Diaghileff Company, and became a choreographer in 1912?
17. From Hainan in the north to and including Singapore in the south, and including the Gulf of Thailand, how many countries have coasts on the South China Sea?
18. What do Seung-Hui Cho, Thomas Watt Hamilton, Robert Steinhäuser, Charles Joseph Whitman, Tim Kretschmer, Marc Lépine, Dylan Bennet Klebold, Eric David Harris, Farda Gadirov, Bai Ningyang and Walter Seifert have in common?
19. Who, after making a living painting porcelain and sun blinds, became well known due to such paintings as "Portrait of Alfred Sisley", "William Sisley (Father of Alfred Sisley)" and "Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne" ?
20. Where are the terms "flight", "paddle" and "lock" used?
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