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General Knowledge Quiz 882 (20 MCQs)

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1. Why did Captain Cook throw 6 of his 10 cannon into the sea at Great Barrier Reef, off the Australian coast in 1770?
2. The modern Olympic Games, the first of which was held in 1896, has attracted several internationally famous people, including ..... ?
3. What type of land does Bogotá, Colombia, have most of?
4. Who first started exhibiting paintings at the Paris Salon in 1864 and painted several thousand works until his death in 1919, even though during the last twenty years of his life he was wheelchair-bound and rheumatoid arthritis severely limited his movement?
5. Who released an album called "Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player" in 1973?
6. Which inn at Cheapside near Friday Street (where, it is said, Shakespeare, Johnson and friends met frequently), was destroyed by the Great Fire of London?
7. Which of these is a landmark in Bogota?
8. What height should the top of the rim of a basketball net be above the court?
9. Where is hydrochloric acid found in the human body?
10. Who played the title role in the 1970s TV series "McCloud", about a cowboy policeman working in New York?
11. The amateur sport ARDF is a competition in what field?
12. What is the world's largest rodent?
13. What is the name for the meteorites that arrive at earth's atmosphere around mid November?
14. Which of these women was rushed to hospital in 2007 following a drug overdose, reportedly a cocktail of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and alcohol?
15. What is another name for the alligator pear?
16. Which US TV show, for which the cast list included Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jason Alexander, was set predominantly in an apartment block on New York City's Upper West Side (but shot mostly in Los Angeles, California)?
17. Which of these uses is not one thought to relate to Bedloe's Island?
18. The Kuril island archipelago lies between the Pacific Ocean and which other sea?
19. What Christian festival commemorates the coming of the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem?
20. What is the capital of Peru?
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