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QUIZ 19 – General Knowledge

1 Sir Thomas Beecham called which London venue a “giant chicken coop”?

2 Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes created which packaging material?

3 What number is denoted by the word myriad?

4 Lady Godiva rode nude through the streets of which city?

5 Which English photographer married Catherine Deneuve in 1965?

6 Which children’s TV show featured The Soup Dragon and Froglets?

7 Craster in Northumberland is famed for which fish delicacy?

8 Who was the oldest member of the pop group The Jackson 5?

9 Unani, Ayurveda and Siddha are alternative forms of what?

10 Who first appeared together in the 1915 story Extricating Young Gussie?

11 A luxury brand of General Motors, what is the oldest active American car make?

12 Which artist painted the Uffizi’s Ognissanti Madonna (c.1310)?

13 In humans, which dark pigment is the main determinant of skin colour?

14 Named after a British physicist, what is the SI derived unit of absorbed dose?

15 Who did Suetonius claim sang the Sack of Ilium during the Great Fire of Rome?

16 A photo of which 1970 meeting is the most requested reproduction from the US National Archives?

17 Whistled by Brother Bones, what is the Harlem Globetrotters’ signature song?

18 The Canadian dentist William George Beers is known as the father of which sport?

19 Wearing the Star of David on his trunks, which boxer defeated Max Schmeling in 1933?

20 Name the pictured king –


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