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General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 1 August 2015

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Q1. Where was gold discovered by James Wilson Marshall on January 24, 1848, that led to the California Gold Rush (1848-1855)?

A
Capitol Hill
B
Mount Rushmore
C
Fort Sumter
D
Sutter's Mill
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Q2. Charity and Mercy Pecksniff appear in which novel by Charles Dickens?

A
Oliver Twist
B
Martin Chuzzlewit
C
Pickwick papers
D
The Old Curiosity Shop
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Q3. Beals Conjecture, or the Tijdeman-Zagier conjecture, in number theory grew from investigations in which of these?

A
Fermat's Last Theorem
B
The Taniyama-Shimura-Weil conjecture
C
Ribet's Theorem
D
Germain's Theorem
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Q4. The southern border of which country is with the continental USA?

A
Mexico
B
Canada
C
Russia
D
Panama
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Q5. Who wrote "Banished Misfortune", "Fighting With Shadows" and "A Goat's Song"?

A
Maeve Binchy
B
John Barth
C
Seamus Heaney
D
Dermot Healy
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Q6. Who is the present wife of golfer Greg Norman?

A
Interior decorator Kirsten Kutner
B
Squash star Susan Devoy
C
Tennis star Chris Evert
D
Flight attendant Laura Andrassy
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Q7. Which of these is a type of international code?

A
Holmes
B
Colombo
C
Marple
D
Morse
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