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General Knowledge Quiz 893 (20 MCQs)

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1. In which modern country was the Aksumite, or Axumite, Empire, which flourished from about the late first millennium BCE until the 9th century CE, centred?
2. Who wrote the music for the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" and "Peter and the Wolf" (a children's tale for narrator and orchestra)?
3. Which country won the most gold medals for the Olympic Marathon, the first 25 times that it was run (1896-2004)?
4. Who was the last of these to win their first Oscar?
5. In what long-running UK television documentary series have specialists Mick Aston, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding regularly appeared?
6. Which of these words is English slang for "head" ?
7. Who is credited with the invention of boxing gloves?
8. How many theses were nailed to a church door by Martin Luther in 1517 (generally accepted to be the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, on All Saints Eve, 31 October)?
9. Which member country of the Council of Europe has the smallest population?
10. Which of these forms of transport was the most recent to carry commercial passengers?
11. When was canoeing accepted as an Olympic sport?
12. Which of these was an African-American revolutionary organisation established to promote Black Power, and self-defence for blacks, that was active in the USA from 1966 into the 1970s?
13. The longest word included in English language dictionaries, and probably contrived to be so, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. What does it mean?
14. The album "The Wall" was made by which band?
15. What does the day known in the US as Juneteenth mark?
16. In 1974 many ranks of life-size models were discovered buried in China; they are known as ..... ?
17. "The Count of Monte Cristo" was originally written in which language?
18. What is a lizardfish native to the waters between Mumbai and Kutch in the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the China Sea?
19. Through which of these does the Pacific "Ring of Fire" run?
20. Which of these films was about the relationship between two sisters?
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