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General Knowledge Quiz 88 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which infectious disease is characterised by ulceration and inflammation of the bowel with generalised toxaemia and "wasting", usually caused via infection of food contaminated by flies?
2. The film 1953 Calamity Jane produced which hit for Doris Day that reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1954?
3. Which of these is the name of 13 books written in Alexandria around 300 BC, a collection of definitions, axioms, theorems, constructions and proofs was used as the basic text on geometry throughout the Western world for about 2, 000 years?
4. The pericardium is part of which organ?
5. The Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" was stereo-typical of milliners making felt hats, who used what chemical to separate the fur from the pelt and matt it together?
6. Who wrote the 16th century play "Tamburlaine the Great", one of the first English plays in blank verse?
7. Where is the Satsuma peninsula?
8. Which American photographer who lived from 1923 to 1971 was noted for her portraits of people such as transvestites, dwarfs, giants and prostitutes in unconventional poses and settings?
9. What is the generally accepted name for the Puritans who became the earliest settlers in the Plymouth colony in America, in 1620?
10. The 1982 song "Sexual Healing" was the first single released by which singer after his break from Motown?
11. Bill and Hillary Clinton and Jim and Susan McDougal were investigated as part of what financial scandal by the US Justice Department in 1994?
12. Gouache, pointillism, and sable are terms which can be found in what discipline?
13. What name is given to a section of the Alps located mostly in the province of Belluno, and extending into the provinces of Bolzano-Bozen and Trento?
14. In which year did the space shuttle Challenger explode 73 seconds after lift off?
15. Whose final words, on 8 April 1973, were reported to be "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink any more" ?
16. Which 19th century American author went to sea aged 17 in a whaler, deserted twice, was captured by cannibals and joined a man of war before writing novels such as "White Jacket" and "Billy Budd" ?
17. Along the Bight of Benin in West Africa, what did European traders formerly call the coastal area between the Volta River in Ghana and the Lagos Lagoon in Nigeria?
18. The UK TV series Sharpe, 1993-2009, starred which two actors?
19. People who have cancer have wanted to take some forms of marijuana to help alleviate what?
20. Which of these is not a flatfish?
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