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General Knowledge Quiz 762 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which degenerative disorder is found in professional athletes in the fields of boxing, American football, association football, ice hockey, professional wrestling, stunt performing, bull riding, bicycle motocross and rodeo as a result of their sport?
2. What kind of object is "tansy" ?
3. What informal phrase means "well known" or "popular in its day" ?
4. Which of these words is another name for a nose bleed?
5. In Greek mythology, a female hybrid monster with the front of a lion, the middle of a goat and the rear of a dragon is called a ..... ?
6. Round which planet do two shepherd moons circle named Ophelia and Cordelia?
7. Where is the primary source (2015 figures) of mined cobalt?
8. The night of 9 March 1945 saw, according to historians, the most devastating World War II bombing raid in terms of immediate death on what city?
9. If The Beatles were listed in a 1969 telephone book, who would be the last to be listed?
10. In 1961 US President John F Kennedy negotiated for the release of the 1, 189 survivors out of 1, 500 men directed and trained by the USA who had tried to invade which country?
11. What river serves as a border for about 640 kilometres (398 miles), separating South Africa to the southeast from Botswana to the northwest and Zimbabwe to the north?
12. Which of these is an ape that can swing from branch to branch for distances of up to 15 m (50 ft), at speeds as high as 56 km/h (35 mph), make leaps of up to 8 m (27 ft), and walk on two feet with its arms raised for balance?
13. Which point on the African coast is closest to the point where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea?
14. What medium had its first test with a recording of Richard Strauss's "Eine Alpensinfonie" by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan in 1981, and its first commercial pressing with "The Visitors" by ABBA a year later?
15. What Indian word was used by the Portuguese for army servants and became applied by British to Asiatic seamen?
16. Who is the naval officer in Puccini's "Madam Butterfly" ?
17. As what is the American artist "Mr Wiggles" best known?
18. What islands were formerly called the Spice Islands?
19. In the 20th century and since, what is the village of Grimethorpe in the UK particularly well-known for?
20. Which of these are traditionally from Japan?
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