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General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 27 February 2019

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Q1. What is the Russian rocket launch and development site in the Astrakhan Oblast, between Volgograd and Astrakhan, established in 1946?

A
Kapustin Yar
B
Rasputin Car
C
Kalingrad
D
Yekaterinburg
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Q2. What is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies that consists mainly of psalms and is said at noon?

A
Sext
B
Int
C
Thet
D
Ctit
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Q3. What is an IPO?

A
Internal Price Outmoded
B
Instant Police Officer
C
International Protest Overseas
D
Initial public stock offering
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Q4. Which horse race meeting, for "The Gold Cup", was first run in 1711 and is held on 7 June each year?

A
Scottish Grand National
B
Aintree Grand National
C
Epsom Derby
D
Royal Ascot
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Q5. Nelson beat Napoleon's fleet, which lost 13 of 17 ships, in which battle in Aboukir Bay on 1 August 1793?

A
Battle of El Alamein
B
Battle of Trafalgar
C
Battle of the Nile
D
Battle of Lissa
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Q6. Which English King assented to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, Surrey, England, in 1215?

Note: This question was updated in February 2024
A
King Elton
B
King John
C
King Paul
D
King Ringo
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Q7. Badfinger, Black Dyke Band, Elephant's Memory, Grapefruit, Mary Hopkin, Jackie Lomax, Modern Jazz Quartet, Radha Krsna Temple, Ravi Shankar, Ronnie Spector, James Taylor and White Trash have all recorded for what label?

A
Reprise
B
Parlophone
C
Tamla
D
Apple
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