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General Knowledge Quiz 93 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which small country won its only Olympic gold medals since it first participated in 1936, at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, USA?
2. What is the present name of the country in which the Winter Olympics of 1984 were held?
3. In which of these countries is there not a Mount Olympus?
4. Raymond Briggs, English graphic novelist, artist, illustrator and cartoonist, first found enduring popularity with what work?
5. What large, flat valley that dominates the central portion of the state of California USA and stretches approximately 800 kilometres (500 miles) has the northern half called the Sacramento Valley, and the southern half the San Joaquin Valley, which meet at the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta?
6. Alfred Brendel is mostly associated with what instrument?
7. What does the French word "jambon" mean in English?
8. A barrel is a standard unit in both the oil and the fermented or distilled drinks industries; if traditionally it is 42 US gallons (158.9873 litres) for crude oil or other petroleum products how many US gallons is it traditionally for wine?
9. Which Greek philosopher, from the 6th century BCE, is best known for a mathematical theorem which bears his name and for leading a group who discovered square numbers and proposed that the earth was round, planets have an axis, and they travel around the sun?
10. Where are the Tasaday people indigenous?
11. In 2004 who became the constitutional head of government, the King, in Cambodia?
12. Which musical includes the characters Jean Valjean, Javert, Fantine, Cosette, Éponine, Thénardier, Gavroche, Enjolras, Grantaire and Marius?
13. Where in Scotland does the Falkirk Wheel operate?
14. Where are the Bismarck and Owen Stanley ranges?
15. A group of what is usually called a "parliament" ?
16. Who was Queen Elizabeth the First's principal secretary (a position later known as Secretary of State) and spymaster?
17. What are the first words of the US Declaration of Independence?
18. Olympic gold medallists Natasa Janics and Alfréd Hajós represented which country?
19. The building of historical significance known as the Bastille was in which city?
20. Olympic gold medallists Nedo Nadi, Enrico Fabris, Domenico Fioravanti and Alberto Tomba represented which country?
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