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General Knowledge Quiz 768 (20 MCQs)

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1. What stretches for about 1, 000 km north to south down the coastal western border of the Atacama Desert?
2. Ferdinand de Lesseps was a French diplomat, and a builder of what?
3. What "Commonwealth" was formed on 1 January 1901, with Lord Hopetoun as Governor-General and Edmund Barton as Prime Minister?
4. When were the debts incurred by Montreal, Canada, in staging the 1976 Olympics finally met in full?
5. In 1957, there were how many states in the USA?
6. Which of these was a nurse who was a heroine (from the British and Allied point of view) in World War I?
7. At Christmas, it is customary to exchange kisses beneath a sprig of which plant?
8. The phrase to be in the "limelight" refers to burning of what as a brilliant light source in old theatre and music hall performances?
9. Which 1962 film, directed by Tony Richardson from a script by Alan Sillitoe, is about a boy (played by Tom Courtenay) in Borstal and his defiance of the accepted norms of British society?
10. What was the first ballet written by Tchaikovsky?
11. What internationally recognised unit of length equal to 0.1 nanometre (1 × 10-10 m) is often used to express the size of atoms, lengths of chemical bonds and the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, and in technology for parts of integrated circuits?
12. Emilio Lavazza, who died in February 2010, ran a company which was associated with what product?
13. In which of these areas would you be most likely to find a traditional dwelling called a yurt?
14. Drummer Rick Allen lost an arm in an accident but continued to perform with which band?
15. The San Andreas fault line runs through which of these cities?
16. What are "chiroptera" ?
17. The show "Holby City" was a spin off from which UK TV series?
18. The musical "Fiddler on the Roof" is set in what country?
19. In the International Radio Alphabet, how many are traditional male given names?
20. To roquet in a game what must a player do?
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