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General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 20 October 2012

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Q1. The head of state of Jersey and Guernsey, which are both Crown dependencies and not part of the United Kingdom, is the monarch of Great Britain. They rule there because they hold what title?

Note: This question was updated in September 2022
A
Viceroy
B
Duke or Duchess of Malfi
C
Defender of the Faith
D
Duke of Normandy
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Q2. Who was president of the USA at the outbreak of World War II?

Note: This question was updated in December 2020
A
Dwight D. Eisenhower
B
Woodrow Wilson
C
Richard Nixon
D
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Q3. What is the name of the surface used to play a game of curling?

A
Pitch
B
Bed
C
Field
D
Sheet
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Q4. What are the topmost 7 vertebrae of the backbone called?

A
Cervical
B
Thoracic
C
Lumbar
D
Sacral
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Q5. Who painted "Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer", which sold at auction for $US135 million in 2006?

A
Gustav Klimt
B
Jackson Pollock
C
Willem de Kooning
D
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Q6. When was the North Atlantic Treaty which established NATO signed?

A
1919
B
1939
C
1949
D
1989
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Q7. Which of these is not one of the primary users of the Airbus A380, a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine airliner?

Note: This question was updated in February 2021
A
Continental
B
Singapore Airlines
C
Emirates
D
Qantas
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