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Q1. "Four Quartets", a set of four poems ("Burnt Norton", "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding") published between 1936 and 1942, was written by whom?

A
T. S. Eliot
B
Ted Hughes
C
Daphne du Maurier
D
W H Auden
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Q2. Who, aged 54, married 18 year old Oona O'Neill, the daughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill, in June 1943?

A
Al Capone
B
Humphrey Bogart
C
Charlie Chaplin
D
Spencer Tracy
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Q3. Who became vice-president and then president of the USA without having been voted into either office?

A
Grover Cleveland
B
Lyndon Johnson
C
Harry S Truman
D
Gerald Ford
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Q4. Who was the Serbian electrical engineer and inventor whose inventions include the induction motor, 3-phase electricity, fluorescent lighting, a resonant transformer circuit that generates high-voltage, high-frequency alternating current electricity?

A
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
B
Nikolaus Otto (1832-1891)
C
Elon Musk (1971-now)
D
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859)
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Q5. Who fell out of favour with Queen Elizabeth I over his intrigue and secret marriage with Elizabeth Throckmorton, or Throgmorton, was imprisoned and eventually beheaded?

A
Lord Melchett
B
Sir Francis Drake
C
Sir Walter Raleigh
D
Captain Flashman
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Q6. Who was Grigori Rasputin popularly linked with?

A
Catherine the Great of Russia
B
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
C
Ivan the Terrible of Russia
D
Vladimir Putin of Russia
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Q7. She figures in plays by Hesiod and Euripides, and in an account by Herodotus, as a semi-divine powerful priestess, sorceress, seductress and murdering avenger, daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis and wife of Jason of the Argonauts. Who is she?

A
Clytemnestra
B
Penelope
C
Medea
D
Artemis
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