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General Knowledge Quiz 766 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a "scion" ?
2. What song plays at the end of the film "You've Got Mail" when the two lead characters meet in the park?
3. What is a pismire, or pishmire?
4. In 1745 a type of glass container was invented, dubbed the Leyden (or Leiden) jar, to do what?
5. The bars of which of these instruments, first marketed in its current form in 1928, are made of aluminium, each of which has a device to give a tremolo effect to the sounds produced?
6. Which is the gerund in the sentence "we listened to the whispering" ?
7. Michael Phelps who during the Summer Olympics 2012 brought his swimming medal total to a record 18 golds represents which country?
8. What is the highest honour awarded in Denmark?
9. On 3 June 2010, an episode of which British soap opera, which featured a hostage situation involving guns, was postponed after it was due to air on the same day as a man shot 12 people dead and injured several more in Cumbria, England?
10. In Rudyard Kipling's story of The Elephant's Child in his "Just So Stories" which was the "great grey-green, greasy" river?
11. Who was Vice President to Bill Clinton's presidency, which was from 1993 to 2001?
12. In Billy Wilder's film "Sunset Boulevard", in which Gloria Swanson often said the line, "All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up", who played Cecil B DeMille?
13. At which Olympic Games did a water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union end as a pitched battle between the teams?
14. Where was the first permanent European settlement established in North America?
15. From 1960 to 1979, where was the largest stained glass installation in the world?
16. Who destroyed the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem?
17. What is the proper term for the # symbol, often referred to as a "number sign", "hash" or "pound sign" ?
18. What does "B" stand for in the term "BPM" in relation to music?
19. Which platform game developed by Nintendo and first released in 1985 has generated multiple versions and spinoffs?
20. What Louisiana Creole dish is traditionally made with meats, vegetables, stock and rice?
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