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QUIZ 61 – General Knowledge

1 Will Kane is the marshal of Hadleyville forced to stand alone against Frank Miller and his gang in which Western?

2 Which US band released the 1982 song Bad to the Bone?

3 Which infectious disease is also known as “infantile paralysis”?

4 Eric Fenby became the amanuensis of which blind composer in 1928?

5 Which Biblical king was “a mighty hunter before the Lord”?

6 Which ancient Greek city-state lay on the right bank of the Eurotas River?

7 Which SI derived unit of work or energy is named after an English physicist?

8 Which regulatory protein is so named because it is present in almost all tissues of eukaryotic organisms?

9 The French liqueur St-Germain is made from which blossoms?

10 Founded in 1946, which Swiss film festival awards the Golden Leopard?

11 Which healing technique derives its name from the Japanese for ‘universal life energy’?

12 Constantine XI Palaiologos (1404–53) was the last ruler of which empire?

13 Apophis or Apep was the demon of chaos in which mythology?

14 Matthew Holness won the Perrier Award for playing which spoof horror author?

15 In 1792, which European country became the first to ban the slave trade?

16 Which US artist began his Onement series of “zip” paintings in 1948?

17 Which digital pet gets its name from the Japanese for ‘egg-watch’?

18 Zombies, Spider Jockeys and Creepers are hostile ‘mobs’ in which video game?

19 Which South Korean boxer died after his 1982 bout with Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini?

20 Name the king of the Hindu gods in the picture –


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