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General Knowledge Quiz 839 (20 MCQs)

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1. In the digital world what does the "V" stand for in "VR" ?
2. What way of travelling is involved in the Put Foot Rally?
3. The song "They're Coming To Take Me Away ha haaa" was banned by the BBC in 1966. Who was the artist?
4. In April 2010, the engagement of a princess from which country was called off after allegations of her fiancé's affair?
5. The historically significant "Wind of Change" speech was made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on 3 February 1960 to the Parliament of which country?
6. Who set a world land speed record of over 400 miles per hour at Bonneville, Utah, USA, and was killed attempting a new water speed record on Loch Ness in September 1952?
7. What was established in 2008 in Chamonix, France, the centenary of the related French Championship?
8. What 1973 film, based on a novel by French ex-convict Henri Charrière, starred Steve McQueen & Dustin Hoffman?
9. The single largest collection of whose works (181 paintings) is at the Barnes Foundation, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
10. What causes the initial sting in the reaction to contact with stinging nettle?
11. Seth MacFarlane is the creator of which of these TV series?
12. The 2017 Biathlon World Championship was run over 11 events; how many did the first Championship include?
13. Deliberate use of concentration camps and starvation for civilians as a military policy marked which of these?
14. Harry Houdini became famous as what?
15. What is a siskin?
16. In which sport would the athletes or sportspeople wear spiked shoes?
17. Cyrus the Great of Persia, for his religious tolerance, power and skill the only non-Jew to be acclaimed as the Messiah, founded the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BCE which stretched how far?
18. What, the largest of its type at the time, was destroyed by fire at Alexandria in the first century BCE?
19. The original line-up of which band was Gary, Howard, Jason, Mark and Robbie?
20. Which of these people was famous for founding a film company in 1896?
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