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General Knowledge Quiz 85 (20 MCQs)

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1. By what name is James Osterberg popularly known?
2. Among plants and inanimate objects, what is a cob?
3. Which of these is word for a writer's assistant?
4. Which mountain range would you come across first if you went due East from San Jose, California?
5. In May 2010, what store was sold to Qatar Holdings by Mohammed Al Fayed for £1.5 billion?
6. What is the shortest book of the Old Testament?
7. In October 1981 France abolished what?
8. Newkirk is the surname of which of these entertainers?
9. Which of these Italian towns and cities is on the coast?
10. Who was the star of "8 Mile" (2002) a hip-hop drama film which was a fictionalized account of his growing up in Detroit and early career in rap?
11. Possession of what was made illegal in California, the first part of the USA to do so, on 6 October 1966?
12. The Little Red Book was required reading under whose rule?
13. Sid Baker, in his book "The Australian Language", suggests that a derogatory word used in Australasia to refer to a young person who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviour was a contraction of the name of which fictional race which appears in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift?
14. Where is the active Mayon volcano?
15. Which Welsh poet (e.g. "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog") wrote a play "Under Milk Wood" that was published posthumously in 1954?
16. The Moray is a type of what?
17. Dutch conductor and composer André Rieu, best known for creating an international revival in waltz music with his "Johann Strauss Orchestra" which began in 1987, is associated with which instrument?
18. Who, in 1970, became the first woman during the open era and the second woman ever to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same calendar year and became a Pentecostal minister in 1991?
19. Where or in what would a plumbata have been found?
20. What was the fate of "Blanche" in Poulenc's opera "Les Dialogues des Carmelites" ?
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