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General Knowledge Quiz 841 (20 MCQs)

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1. In 1961 Alan Shepard made the first manned flight into space for the USA aboard what vehicle?
2. What is a branch of Islam which reveres Ali, cousin of Muhammad, believing him alone to be Muhammad's rightful successor?
3. Frédéric Chopin is best known for his compositions for which instrument?
4. Which of these people was not a member of the '' electric" band that backed Bob Dylan at his performance at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday 25 July 1965?
5. Who composed the music "By the Waters of Babylon", "The Lost Chord" and incidental music to Shakespeare's "The Tempest" performed to acclaim at the Crystal Palace in 1862?
6. The Valdés Peninsula and its waters, which are a nature reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999, and the most important breeding ground for the endangered Southern Right whale in the world, are part of which country?
7. When did the Hasanid Sharifs rule in western Asia?
8. Where is Saint Kitts and Nevis?
9. The genus of plants called nopal or opuntia, native to the Americas and found in arid, semiarid, and drought-prone areas, is a source of what kind of food?
10. Considered by Eugene Merle Shoemaker to be the first definitive proof of an extraterrestrial impact on the Earth's surface, was which meteorite impact crater?
11. What is the name of 100 novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio, a medieval allegorical work known for its bawdy tales of love from the erotic to the tragic, which were probably written in the 1350s?
12. What needlework technique incorporating features of embroidery, cutwork and needle lace, popular in England in the 19th century, is characterised by patterns composed of small holes or eyelets bound with overcast or buttonhole stitches?
13. Who rests in the Hotel des Invalides, Paris?
14. After the World Cup in 1962, the government of Brazil declared which player an "official national treasure" to prevent him from being transferred out of the country when wealthy European clubs tried to sign him?
15. In golf, what is the term for "three strokes under par" ?
16. Two of its cones are considered extinct while the third, Kibo, is only dormant and sports gas fumeroles. Which mountain is it?
17. If someone has a BA, they are a Bachelor of what?
18. What were the names of Elvis Presley's parents?
19. With what process are cacao seeds treated initially to turn them brown?
20. Where was the penal colony which features in a 1969 semi-autobiography by an ex-criminal and convict imprisoned there from 1933 until he finally escaped in the 1940s?
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