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General Knowledge Quiz 746 (20 MCQs)

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1. The Sagrada Família in Barcelona, which began construction in 1882, was consecrated and declared a basilica by the Pope in what year?
2. What is the name of the system whereby a number of persons subscribe to an invested fund which becomes the property of the last survivor?
3. Who were the winning team at the first World Aerobatic Championships in 1960?
4. Who or what was Jesus referring to when he said "Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these" ?
5. A billion in short scale is 1 followed by 9 zeroes. What is it in long scale?
6. Which of these is best remembered as the mothers in the TV series "Lassie" and "Lost in Space", and for her portrayal of Dr. Janet Craig on the sitcom "Petticoat Junction" from 1968 to 1970?
7. What is the name of the long narrow island off the east coast of Russia?
8. What carries the larvae of guinea worms?
9. What U K TV series about a father and son, rag and bone men, was the basis for the U S TV series "Sandford and Son" ?
10. Which Italian island in the Mediterranean is to the south of Corsica?
11. John Calvin, 16th century French theologian, was the autocrat of which city for 13 years, where he improved the city and provided harsh punishments for moral transgressions?
12. What is a common name for the small ancient wingless insects of the order known as Archaeognatha, which live almost world-wide in conditions ranging from the Arctic to moist soil to sandy deserts?
13. What is the stage name of Victoria Hesketh, an English electropop musician who sings and plays the keyboard, piano, stylophone and the Tenori-on?
14. If, viewed mathematically, the alphabet leads to "A plus B equals C"; what does "I plus Q" equal?
15. In 2022 a number of international sports bodies banned events in Russia (and, in some cases, Belarus) and sportspeople from Russia in events everywhere else. What was the reason?
16. Which of these films does not include reference to events on 11 September 2001?
17. A sport practised in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, North America and for a short time in parts of England, involved trying to decapitate what?
18. Who voiced the eponymous hero in the 1973 film "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" ?
19. Which of these buildings is in Bangkok?
20. What spirit, in Ireland and Scotland, makes noises near a house when someone is about to die?
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