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General Knowledge Quiz 741 (20 MCQs)

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1. The phrase "The Dashing White Sergeant" refers to ..... ?
2. In Greek legend, Ulysses sailed safely between ..... what?
3. What was "the world's first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses, " that went online in 1957?
4. What English football club lost 8 players and 3 officials in the Munich air disaster of 1958?
5. Although now a term for an ordinary infantryman, in 1640 a "fusilier" was so called because his weapon was a fusil. What was a fusil?
6. The HMHS Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic and heir to the experience gained by that sinking, was completed at the end of 1915 and requisitioned as what before falling foul of a mine and sinking in 1916?
7. Dodge Morgan, who became famous in 1986 at age 54 when he sailed solo around the globe without stops in 150 days (breaking the record of 292 days), had become a millionaire by operating a company that manufactured what from 1971 to 1983?
8. The Colorado Beetle destroys which crop?
9. Which of these Mexican cities is close to the Gulf of Mexico?
10. What is the deepest lake in the world?
11. What was an ingredient of the fermented sauce first released commercially in 1838 under the name "Worcestershire Sauce", and eventually "Lea & Perrins" ?
12. What do the words "xoxo", "pogonophobia" and "yarn bombing" have in common?
13. Which of these cities lies between Philadelphia and Washington, DC?
14. Which is a security agency administered by and part of the Ministry of Justice in Japan?
15. Which comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks that first appeared in 1897 in the "American Humorist", the Sunday supplement of the New York Journal, is still distributed, making it the oldest comic strip still in syndication?
16. Martin Kamen, with Sam Ruben, synthesised the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 and then was the first to use it to study what?
17. What do the matches played under the auspices of the FIDE take place on?
18. Who takes care of animals on a film set?
19. According to the 1962 film "The Day of the Triffids", what was fatal to the triffids?
20. In May 2010, David Byrne, the former lead singer of 1980s band "Talking Heads", began a lawsuit claiming $ 1 million in damages against Florida governor Charlie Crist over the use of which song in an election commercial?
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