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General Knowledge Quiz 728 (20 MCQs)

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1. What do Switzerland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have in common?
2. What name was given to a series of violent events on 21 May 1979 in San Francisco, USA, sparked by the lenient sentencing (for voluntary manslaughter, the lightest possible) of Dan White for the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, which led to changes in the city's official attitude to gays?
3. Which 1942 film starring Tim Holt, Joseph Cotton, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello and Richard Bennett was adapted by Orson Welles from a novel by Booth Tarkington?
4. Who carved Pinocchio?
5. Anne Geddes, an Australian-born photographer and clothing designer, is known for her stylized depictions of what?
6. What is the term for a wine with harsh and pronounced flavours?
7. Which book of the Christian Bible provides the details of the Apocalypse?
8. What US policy introduced in 1823, that efforts by European governments to colonise land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed by the USA as acts of aggression requiring US intervention, became one of the longest-standing tenets of US foreign policy?
9. Belgian Thierry Boutsen, winner of the 1989 Canadian Grand Prix and the 1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, drove for the Formula One teams of Benetton, Williams-Renault, Ligier, Jordan-Hart and what other?
10. Snooker is played with a what?
11. What, according to Greek legend, was built at Cnossos, Crete, by Daedalus?
12. Where is the woodland and plains ecoregion known as the Bushveld?
13. Why did Indian actress Deepika Padukone receive multiple death threats in 2017 and 2018?
14. What, apart from its warning bright orange and black colouring, gives the Monarch butterfly a level of protection from birds, lizards and similar predators?
15. Which low-key "equipment" is being used in Europe to catch drones which are believed to be posing a danger to the public?
16. Where would you go in all of U.S. territory to see the first sunrise of a new day at the equinox?
17. The city of Vladivostok is on which of Russia's coasts?
18. Pedro Lascuráin had the shortest Presidency of less than one hour (sources quote ranges between 15 and 55 minutes), of which country, thus giving it three presidents in one day on 18 February 1913?
19. Which of these is not a character in the TV series "Friends" ?
20. The International Olympic Committee and the United States Olympics and Paralympics Committees in 2021 and 2023, respectively, recognised which International Federation, making its sport eligible for inclusion in the Olympic Games?
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