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General Knowledge Quiz 907 (20 MCQs)

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1. The poem "The New Colossus" that begins "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses ..... " is inscribed where?
2. Who was the head of an international sporting body who once suggested that women players (in that sport) should wear tighter shorts and lowcut shirts to make their game more appealing?
3. A partial meltdown in a nuclear power plant on 20 March 1979 happened where?
4. Badfinger, Black Dyke Band, Elephant's Memory, Grapefruit, Mary Hopkin, Jackie Lomax, Modern Jazz Quartet, Radha Krsna Temple, Ravi Shankar, Ronnie Spector, James Taylor and White Trash have all recorded for what label?
5. What is the highest mountain in Queensland, Australia (1622 metres), named in 1873 after a British colonial administrator who later became president of the Royal Geographical Society?
6. What forms part of the official symbol of Jainism, known as the Jain Prateek Chihna, agreed upon in 1974?
7. How many teams have ever entered the Olympic La Crosse competitions?
8. Who was the Merchant of Yonkers, in the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder?
9. As at 2017 the men's high jump record, set in 1993, is 2.45 m (8 ft 0 1⁄4 in). What is the current women's high jump record?
10. How did Puerto Rico become a US possession?
11. In which city can you visit the Luigi Ferraris Stadium, the gardens of the Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini, the Piazza De Ferrari, the cemetery of Staglieno, the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art and the Torre della Lanterna?
12. The extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe, was known as what?
13. Whose collection, shown in 1947 and called "The New Look", reintroduced the "hourglass" shape for women's fashion?
14. As reported in the November 2016 issue of the international science journal, Nature, what animals particularly like being tickled?
15. If somewhere or something is noisome it ..... ?
16. Claris Cliff is a famous designer of what items?
17. In economic terms what does seigniorage mean?
18. The words "a" and "an" are what parts of speech?
19. In which 1940 film did the characters Adenoid Hynkel, Benzino Napolini, Garbitsch and Herring appear?
20. It started as a long-running radio series, became an even longer-running TV series the first episode of which was introduced by John Wayne. Which was it?
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