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General Knowledge Quiz 811 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a cruft?
2. Which of these is an open world, 3rd person shooter video game, set in the fictional Pacific City for the Xbox 360 released in 2007, that was conceived by Realtime Worlds' founder, David Jones?
3. Which British band, a four-piece when it formed in the early 1960s, is still touring although only the singer and guitarist/composer, are still alive?
4. Which computer company produced the BBC Micro which dominated the market in the 1980s?
5. From 1794 until 1976, when it became independent as the Republic of Seychelles, the Seychelles was governed by which other country?
6. How did the results of their athletes in weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul affect the Bulgarian weightlifting team?
7. Who was an American gangster, the leader of a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era, whose criminal career ended in 1931 when he was convicted for income-tax evasion?
8. What name is given to a cocktail consisting mainly of vodka and orange?
9. The phrases "cry wolf" and "sour grapes" have a basis in which collection of stories?
10. Bohemian engraver and artist Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) created multiple works prized in England as tools of government. What were they?
11. What country borders the Spanish city of Ceuta?
12. Which of these is associated with Dijon, France?
13. Which of these airports serves Chicago?
14. The "Land of Fire" is at the southern tip of which continent or sub-continent?
15. What does a philologist work with particularly?
16. "House music" originated in clubs in which city?
17. The original terms of reference of the International Whaling Commission were to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry"; what did the Commission do in 1982?
18. What nationality was the physician Paracelsus, prominent in the Renaissance revolution in medicine?
19. Who lost in the 1994 Women's Singles final at Wimbledon to Conchita Martínez, and was beaten by her in the first round of the 2004 French Open, 6-1, 6-3?
20. According to a book by former British foreign secretary Lord Owen, which world leader collapsed while sitting on a sofa watching a football game in 2002?
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