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General Knowledge Quiz 792 (20 MCQs)

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1. On whose book did Walt Disney base his 1940 feature film "Pinocchio" ?
2. Where did the car manufacturer Audi originate?
3. Edwina Currie, first elected to the British House of Commons as a Conservative Party MP in 1983 and a Junior Health Minister for 2 years before resigning in 1988, had an affair with whom from 1984 to 1988?
4. Charlie owes his adventures in a chocolate factory to which British author?
5. The Summer Olympics are held how many years apart?
6. World-wide publicity was given when the Codex Sinaiticus was made available on the internet in June 2009. What is it?
7. How many wheels were there on each hansom cab, the horse-drawn taxis that used to operate in London in Victorian times?
8. In the late 19th century, Jean Desbouvrie, an amateur bird trainer, persuaded the government of France to conduct a feasibility study to use what birds as messengers after early demonstrations showed that they could "home" and flew faster than pigeons?
9. What is an alternative name for Whit Sunday the time when, according to Christian tradition, the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles?
10. What genus of flowering plants, native to an area from Brazil to Peru to southern Argentina discovered in 1768 by French botanist Philibert Commerçon, is a thorny, woody vine reaching from 1 to 12 metres tall by growing over other plants with hooked thorns tipped with a black, waxy substance?
11. The board for which game has 121 indentations arranged to form a six-pointed star, with ten indentations in each triangular star-point of the hexagram, and 61 within its hexagon?
12. For women's basketball, the official basketball size is 28.5 inches in circumference (size 6) and what weight in ounces?
13. Tom Lehrer, an American singer-songwriter, whose work contained much black humor and risque lyrics, often parodying popular song forms, taught which subject from 1972 to 2001 at the University of California, Santa Cruz?
14. The Lotus Temple in Delhi, India, which opened in 1986 is a centre for people of which faith?
15. What does the "U" stand for in "USB" ?
16. In 2018, after five years of deliberation, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a ruling on a case brought by Bolivia seeking what?
17. From 1922 to 1937, what name was given to the area of Ireland that was more independent than the rest of the island?
18. O'Hare International Airport serves which city?
19. Jesse Owens represented which country at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin?
20. Which of these is a tragic heroine in Greek mythology?
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