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General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 14 April 2018

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Q1. What sport, the season for which is March to August, has been phased out in all states in Australia except for Victoria and South Australia, and was scheduled to end in Victoria after the 2010 season?

A
Spear fishing
B
Motor racing on street circuits
C
Fox hunting
D
Steeplechase
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Q2. In what decade was the oral vaccine against polio developed?

A
1950s
B
1960s
C
1940s
D
1970s
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Q3. Who was defence counsel at the Oz conspiracy trial in 1971 and defended the Sex Pistols in a 1977 obscenity trial over the title of their album "Never Mind The Bollocks"?

A
Jerry Hayes
B
Roger Bushell
C
John Mortimer
D
Simon Tolkien
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Q4. What music was commissioned for George II's coronation in 1727, and has featured in every British coronation since?

A
"Jubilate Deo" ("All people that on earth do dwell") by Vaughan Williams
B
"Gloria in Excelsis" by Charles Stanford
C
"I Was Glad" by Hubert Parry
D
"Zadok the Priest" by Handel
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Q5. What is a feud where the relatives of a murdered man take vengeance on the family of those who killed him, for generations?

A
Miscegenation
B
Nemesis
C
Assassination
D
Vendetta
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Q6. Where is the Lula (formerly the Tupi) oil field?

A
Offshore southern Brazil
B
Offshore Mexico
C
Texas, USA
D
Offshore New Zealand
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Q7. What most immediately inspired the Commission, set up in 1953, which produced the immense Delta Works project?

A
A North Sea flood on the last night of January of that year
B
The Great Smog of 1952 in London
C
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in the UK
D
A season of devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean
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