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General Knowledge Quiz 994 (20 MCQs)

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1. The cities of Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, Laredo and Brownsville are on the banks of which river?
2. Which constellation lies between the Centaur's foot and the Southern ecliptic pole?
3. Whose epitaph by Johnson in Westminster Abbey reads in part "Nihil quod tetigit non ornavit" ("He touched nothing without adding a lustre to it" ?
4. For what was the Italian Enrico Caruso famous?
5. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, a Renaissance man of many talents, is well-known for his writings on politics but was also a well-known politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, letter writer, playwright, poet, songwriter, and what else?
6. What preceded the transition in Thailand from an absolute to a constitutional monarchy?
7. "84 Charing Cross Road" is a book based on 20 years of correspondence between which New York writer and Frank Doel, an antiquarian bookseller in London?
8. Which of these is a famous Parisian restaurant?
9. The names of Cannae, Gaugamela and Austerlitz are associated with what?
10. Where is the source of the Yangtze River?
11. A French/American/British co-produced film focussing on Germans and Italians in one of the Greek islands in 1943, based on the novel by Louis de Bernières, was "Captain Corelli's ..... "?
12. Who is the only cricketer, as at 2023, to have scored 400 runs in a single innings in a test match?
13. Where was the semi-mythical Strait of Anián usually placed on a map?
14. When was the spacecraft Rosetta launched to make contact with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P)?
15. What is the name for a site serving as the final resting place of human skeletal remains, which is frequently used where burial space is scarce?
16. Whose autobiography was called "Unreliable Memoirs" ?
17. What Australian company began as a saddlery business in 1856 and produced the first "Australian Car" in 1948?
18. Which military powers fought the Punic Wars?
19. What are the epic tales associated with Iceland traditionally called?
20. Mount St Helens is in which state of the USA?
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