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General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 15 March 2023

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Q1. What is a group of owls called?

A
Dither
B
Pride
C
Parliament
D
Hoarding
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Q2. It is thought to have been first played in the early 1940s by Americans in the wartime military, and was called at that time "Touch and Tail football". What name is it now known by?

A
Tagline
B
Touchdown
C
Flag Football
D
Foosball
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Q3. Which country, after Sultan Hussein Shah signed a treaty with the British East India Company on 6 February 1819, officially became a British colony on 2 August 1824 by a new treaty with the Sultan and the Temmenggong?

A
Burma
B
Singapore
C
Malaya
D
Brunei
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Q4. The plotline of which film begins in 1845 in Canada, when young James Howlett kills a groundskeeper named Thomas Logan who had killed his father?

A
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
B
Twilight
C
The Last Station
D
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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Q5. A sequence of overlapping and parallel mountain ranges, commonly called the American Cordillera, forms the backbone of the Americas and stretches from where to where?

A
The Yukon to Nicaragua
B
The Yukon to New Mexico
C
British Columbia to Mexico
D
Brooks Range in Alaska, to Tierra del Fuego
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Q6. The Gapminder Foundation formed in 2005 has what as its aim?

A
To increase safety in railway management
B
To develop software to use in mountaineering
C
To fight misconceptions about global trends
D
To support base jumping
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Q7. Which of these is a British sea captain, whose achievements included circumnavigating the globe?

A
Peacock
B
Gander
C
Drake
D
Sparrow
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