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General Knowledge Quiz 842 (20 MCQs)

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1. Why do American Airlines Flights 11 and 77 and United Airlines Flights 93 and 175 feature in the history of the USA?
2. Which island group between the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean was discovered in 1521 by Magellan, was taken by Spain, ceded to the USA in 1898 and became an independent republic in 1946?
3. Bergers White Ball, Giant Prague and Diamant are cultivars of what food plant?
4. Which of these 1955 films is a bedroom farce set in Sweden in the early 1900s, directed by Ingmar Bergman?
5. What number is the factorial of 4?
6. The Swedish soldier, humanitarian and diplomat Greve Folke Bernadotte is particularly remembered for what during the course of World War II?
7. What actress, born in Muscat, Oman, began acting on Australian television on "Paradise Beach" and "Home and Away" and is known for her roles in "Wedding Crashers", "Confessions of a Shopaholic", "Rango" and "The Great Gatsby" ?
8. Which colour in the visible spectrum has the longest wavelength?
9. Which of these is used in Buddhism?
10. What language is the primary source of the word "parallel" ?
11. Which 87 sq km (34 sq mi) island in the Caribbean Sea was divided between France and the Netherlands in 1648?
12. What species of tree of the genus Prunus, native to the Middle East, produces a seed in a corrugated shell which is botanically not a nut, but a drupe?
13. Who wrote "J'accuse", an open letter to Félix Fauré, President of France, accusing the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus (a French officer sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage) that was published on 13 January 1898, in the newspaper "L'Aurore" ?
14. The Vatican erected a statue inside the Vatican's walls of which person who was convicted by the Catholic Church of heresy in 1633 and sentenced to house arrest for life?
15. What was the most famous work of writer L. Frank Baum, who wrote from 1897 to 1912?
16. Which is the largest of Britain's Channel Islands?
17. What is a name for the building where monks live and work?
18. What major event was expected for the island of St Helena in 2015/2016?
19. Indigenous languages spoken in French Guiana include Wayampi, Emerillon and ..... ?
20. What are or were the Selma to Montgomery Marches?
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