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General Knowledge Quiz 779 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is one way to make "5+5+5 = 550" a true statement by drawing one straight line?
2. Which Iron Maiden album, their third and the first to be released with Bruce Dickinson as vocalist, reached No 1 in the UK charts and at the same time went platinum in the USA?
3. What was the surname of the actor who won only 1 Academy Award, for Best Actor for the 1934 "It Happened One Night" ?
4. The Gila Cliff Dwellings and Fort Union National Monuments are in which US State?
5. What is the northernmost point in all U.S. territory?
6. Which of these is a book of maps?
7. What name is given to the police force in the Republic of Ireland?
8. What was the name of the 1976 film that told the story of Woody Guthrie?
9. Which boxer held the World Welterweight title from the end of 1946 to 1951, at which point he then won the World Middleweight title?
10. How many different people were President of the USA in the first 200 years after 30 April 1789?
11. What was the title of the third Mad Max film (1985), starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner?
12. Which playwright wrote the musical "Mamma Mia" ?
13. In June 2010, 8 highly endangered monkeys (4 cottontop tamarins and 4 pygmy marmosets) were stolen from the Symbio Wildlife Park in which country?
14. What word applies to the action of tilting one's head back, allowing a mouthful of liquid to sit in the upper throat and expelling air from the lungs, causing the liquid to bubble through the throat and mouth?
15. In what city did Cacareco famously receive about 100, 000 votes in the city council elections of 1958, more than any other candidate, but did not take office?
16. Which of these musicals is set in France following Napoleon's fall from power, during the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy and the uprising which ends it?
17. Several traditional musical genres are almost exclusively based on percussion; which of these is not one?
18. The opening of the 2012 Summer Olympics had echoes of what event at the 1984 Olympic Games opening?
19. Where, in 1857, was there a brutal and unsuccessful uprising against British control, with estimates of the number of deaths in the hundreds of thousands?
20. Which abolitionist was hanged in 1859 for his role in the Harper's Ferry Raid and played a major role in starting the Civil War?
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