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General Knowledge Quiz 806 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who is quoted as saying " ..... advertising ..... attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists ..... Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little" ?
2. What is Paris Hilton famous for?
3. Henry Ford established a car factory in which city which became the centre of the motor vehicle manufacturing industry in the USA?
4. In which country is the city of Mecca?
5. Which of these cities is the most northern?
6. Which of these is the name given to a strong, cold, dry north or northwesterly wind which accelerates when it passes through the valleys of the Rhone and the Durance Rivers to the coast of the Mediterranean?
7. Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss's publisher, wagered $ 50 that Seuss could not write a book using only fifty different words. Seuss won by writing which book?
8. Which singer first found her wider audience through performance with the Chick Webb band, and the 1938 song she co-wrote "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" ?
9. The Tibesti Mountains range across which desert?
10. How many military conflicts have been generally given the name of World War?
11. What card game is argued by 19th century authority on card games Henry ("Cavendish") Jones to have been derived ultimately from the pre-16th century Italian game called "ronfa" ?
12. In astronomy, what is AU?
13. In film and photography, what is the name for the distance in front of and behind the subject which appears to be in focus?
14. Who was the first driver to die in a Formula One-related incident?
15. In cockney rhyming slang, what is "Trouble and Strife" ?
16. What is Russia's largest port city on the Pacific Ocean at the head of the Golden Horn Bay not far from Russia's border with China and North Korea, and the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet?
17. In the phrase which might be represented by the abbreviation "a w f a g's b", what does the "b" stand for?
18. A group of what creatures is called an "array" ?
19. What is the hooped whalebone framework for a petticoat, a fashion brought to England by Catherine of Aragon from Spain on her marriage to Prince Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII in 1501, and worn in England until the 17th century?
20. Which of these breeds is most commonly used as a police dog?
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