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General Knowledge Quiz 708 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which group in a TV series were on the run for "a crime they didn't commit" ?
2. To what does the phrase "Sunday best" refer?
3. In what year was the Married Women's Property Act passed into British law, that recognised husband and wife as separate legal entities, and gave married women the legal right to sue and be sued, be liable for their own debts, hold stock in their own names and to own, buy and sell separate property?
4. What was unusual about the 1960 Olympic marathon win by Abebe Bikila?
5. What are Duke Nukem, Frogger and Lemmings?
6. What is the only state flag in the USA that incorporates the Battle Flag of the Confederacy (also called the "rebel", "Southern Cross, or "Dixie" flag)?
7. Which of these is a major Australian River?
8. In the books by A A Milne, what was Eeyore?
9. The Waterbury children are from which film?
10. By what road do the Joads and Jim Casy travel west to California in John Steinbeck's novel of the great depression in America, "The Grapes of Wrath" ?
11. A famous round-robin chess tournament, one of the first super tournaments, was conducted in Hastings in England from August 5 to September 2 of what year?
12. Which of these French cities is famous for their mustard?
13. When the first pay toilets were established in the UK, at the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1851, the penny charge included using the hygiene facilities and what else?
14. A study of bacterial DNA through the 1960s and 1970s isolated and identified a new branch of the tree of life many of whose members live in places extremely hostile to other forms of life. What is it called?
15. Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the world's oldest and most famous cricket club (founded in 1787), is based where?
16. Who instigated the first complete translation of the Bible into English?
17. Which small marsupial, thought extinct until 1994, now survives naturally only in Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve in Western Australia, in estimated numbers of about 70?
18. What is the record speed, set in 2009 on Ivanpah Dry Lake near Primm, Nevada, USA, for land yacht sailing>?
19. Who wrote the music for the musical "A Chorus Line" ?
20. What word is commonly used to describe residents of the South American pampas, chacos, or Patagonian grasslands?
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