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General Knowledge Quiz 830 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these countries does not observe within its civil dating system either the Julian Calendar or the Gregorian?
2. What appeared in a newspaper for the first time on 22 March 1904 in the USA's "Daily Illustrated Mirror" ?
3. Vlastimil Hart together with 11 colleagues won the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for documenting what in relation to dogs?
4. When and where was lethal injection first legalised as a means of executing the death penalty in the US?
5. Who was born in 1812 near Porstmouth, spent his childhood in Chatham and London, married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, separated from her in 1858, had much of his work published serially in journals, and died in 1870?
6. Which TV series had, as some of the characters, pigs called Pinky and Perky, a goat called Geraldine and a cockerel called Lenin?
7. What is a means for storing movies and so on, on a disc?
8. Early episodes of UK TV series "Dr Who", "Z-Cars", and most of the iconic "Not Only ..... But Also" share what?
9. Which of these songs is from "Annie Get Your Gun" ?
10. Well known in the 1960s, what was the profession of Holland-Dozier-Holland?
11. What word means the spread of a cancer from one organ or part to another non-adjacent organ or part?
12. What medical apparatus is a large metal cylinder with a compressor that enables the internal air pressure to be changed rhythmically around 12 times per minute?
13. Which singer and songwriter of the 1970s and 1980s was the first to have three consecutive double albums hit #1 on the Billboard charts, and was the first female artist to have four number-one singles in a thirteen-month period?
14. Where did Karen Blixen return home in 1931 after leaving Kenya, and start publishing the books (under the pen name Isaak Dinesen) for which she became well-known internationally?
15. Which of these paintings was painted first?
16. Which board game depends on each competitor drawing destination cards, railway car cards and locomotive cards?
17. A consciously didactic 1857 novel by British lawyer, judge, politician and author Thomas Hughes writes of whose school days?
18. Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward all became infamous in the UK for their part in what event in the 1960s?
19. Who played Rick, the self-proclaimed anarchist who writes poetry and calls himself "The People's Poet" in the UK TV series "The Young Ones" ?
20. Who played David Brent in the English version of the TV series "The Office" ?
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