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General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 21 September 2024

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Q1. With a career that lasted from 1967 to 1971, who had 2 hit records that made #2 on the US charts and #1 and #5 on the UK charts: "Young Girl" and "Lady Willpower"?

A
Gary Lewis and the Playboys
B
Dino, Desi and Billy
C
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
D
Huey Lewis and the News
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Q2. Te Ika a Maui and Te Waipounamu are the two main islands of which country?

A
Japan
B
The United Kingdom
C
The Philippines
D
New Zealand
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Q3. Who wrote the Queensberry rules published in 1867 for the sport of boxing?

A
Percy Douglas, 10th Marquess of Queensberry
B
John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
C
John Graham Chambers, one of the founders of the British Amateur Athletic Club
D
Sir Montague Shearman, one of the founders of the Amateur Athletics Association
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Q4. According to the saying, something that is the best possible is the what?

A
Ant's ankles
B
Bee's knees
C
Fly's elbows
D
Flea's wrists
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Q5. When the radioactive isotope carbon-14 decays, a change which fields such as archaeology and palaeontology use to detect age, what does it become?

A
Carbon
B
Nitrogen
C
Boron
D
Oxygen
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Q6. The TV series "Peaky Blinders", aired first in 2013, is based on late 19th and early 20th century urban youth gangs in what city?

A
Chicago, USA
B
Manchester, UK
C
Birmingham, UK
D
Marseilles, France
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Q7. In the 11th century China issued the first state-backed and printed what?

A
History of the Song dynasty
B
Paper money
C
Encyclopaedia
D
Sayings of Kǒng Fūzǐ, known in the West as Confucius
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