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General Knowledge Quiz 899 (20 MCQs)

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1. Whose visit to Vietnam in November 2000 was the first by a U.S. President since the end of the Vietnam War?
2. Which play was described by its author as a comedy with elements of farce but was directed for its debut at the Moscow Art Theatre on 17 January 1904 as a tragedy?
3. John Lennon's hand-written lyrics for which song sold for US$ 1.2 million at Sotheby's in June 2010?
4. Gamma-coniceine and coniine are the two principles which contribute most to the poisonous effect of what plant?
5. Which of these is a South Korean island that was shelled by North Korean artillery on 23 November 2010?
6. Dartboards were made from solid wood, most often elm. What is said to be the material of which the best quality modern dartboards are made?
7. What term, in musical rhythm, refers to playing three beats in the time of two?
8. What other book is the author of "A Child's Garden of Verses" (1885), initially published under the title of "Penny Whistles", particularly well-known for?
9. In the course of what did the captain of the Australian cricket team Michael Clarke resign in 2015?
10. At the 1980 Olympics at Moscow, which Cuban was the first to win three Olympic gold medals in Heavyweight boxing?
11. Who wrote the blank verse drama "Boris Godunov", later the basis for an opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky?
12. Which of these was the 1958 Nobel Prize laureate, a Russian poet, novelist and translator of Goethe and Shakespeare, most celebrated in Russia as a poet?
13. In 1998 the Iroquois nation sent its first team to the world championships of which sport?
14. Which of these words is not part of the slogan that arose during the French revolution?
15. Which of these drinks is made from cherries?
16. What does the title journeyman mean?
17. In the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, who has a technicolour dreamcoat?
18. Where did Gustav Fabergé from the Baltics establish the jewellery firm in 1842 which later, under his son, created the Fabergé eggs?
19. Which of these hibernates during the cold months?
20. Which of these is an early wind instrument, dating from the Mediaeval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, that takes the form of a tube, typically about 60 cm long, made of ivory or wood, with woodwind-style fingerholes?
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