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General Knowledge #13

15 general knowledge questions
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Last updated: October 24, 2021
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Which UK Prime Minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953?
Winston Churchill
The TV series The Wire depicted various aspects of life in which US city?
Baltimore
Who composed the English-language oratorio Messiah, first performed in 1742?
George Frideric Handel
What is the chemical symbol for the element Lead?
Pb
Which large cat, native to Africa and Iran, is said to be the fastest land mammal?
Cheetah
François Mitterrand is the longest serving President of which country?
France
Which Brit won the Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship in 2013 and 2016?
Andy Murray
In which year did the Battle of Hastings take place?
1066
Which country singer was sometimes nicknamed ‘The Man In Black’?
Johnny Cash
Liebfraumilch is a style of semi-sweet white from which European country?
Germany
In Greek mythology, who was the god of the dead and king of the underworld?
Hades
Arrival, Ring Ring and Voulez-Vous were all 1970s albums for which music act?
ABBA
Which fourteenth century English poet and author wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Honshu is the largest & most populous of the 6,852 islands of which country?
Japan
Which director made cameo appearances in forty of his films, his first such appearance being in The Lodger (1927) and his last being in Family Plot (1976)?
Alfred Hitchcock
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