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General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 23 September 2024

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Q1. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) was rocked in 2015 by what?

A
Russia pulled out of hosting the 2018 World Cup
B
Large scale indictments and arrests for corruption
C
All the European, American and Asian teams pulled out of the Qatar 2022 World Cup
D
The headquarters were bombed during the presidential election
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Q2. Which is a definition of hardwood?

A
Wood from the heart of a tree
B
Wood from gymnosperm trees
C
Wood from dicot angiosperm trees
D
Particularly dense timber
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Q3. What is a name given to a pointless, long drawn out story?

A
Shaggy dog
B
Bald cat
C
Hairy budgie
D
Furry hamster
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Q4. What nationality was the 17th century leader Stenka Razin?

A
Caucasian Kalmyk
B
Don Cossack
C
Crimean Tartar
D
Polish
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Q5. An early type of futures market, and a huge speculative bubble and collapse, related to what?

A
Rice, in 1710
B
Olives, 6th century BCE
C
Tulip bulbs, in 1636-7
D
Corn, in 1851
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Q6. The phrase "wardrobe malfunction" entered pop music vocabulary following a performance at the Super Bowl XXXVIII between Janet Jackson and which other singer?

A
Beenie Man
B
Justin Timberlake
C
Nelly
D
Tyler Perry
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Q7. What is the name of the garden created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson that is designed as a series of "rooms", each with a different character of colour and/or theme, divided by high clipped hedges and pink brick walls?

A
Glastonbury
B
Sissinghurst
C
Marlborough
D
Badminton
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