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Q1. Which 19th century French physicist erected a pendulum 200 feet high in the Pantheon in Paris to demonstrate the earth's rotation?

A
Jean Foucault
B
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
C
René Descartes
D
Nicholas Mercator
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Q2. Before conservative American commentator Tucker Carlson appeared in television and video his career included writing for what magazine?

A
The Weekly Standard
B
Arena
C
The Narwhal
D
Prospect
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Q3. Who took the lead role in the 2014 film "The Imitation Game"?

A
Eddie Redmayne
B
Benedict Cumberbatch
C
Derek Jacobi
D
Ed Stoppard
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Q4. In 1945, which of these joined the British "Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service" as a Second Subaltern, trained as a driver and mechanic, drove a military truck, and rose to the rank of Junior Commander?

A
Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth
B
Lady Astor
C
Clementine Churchill
D
Florence Nightingale
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Q5. Who coined the expressions 'a curate's egg' and 'bedside manner', and wrote three novels, including "Peter Ibbetson" (adapted to a 1935 film starring Gary Cooper and an opera), and another which gave its name to the trilby, a type of hat?

A
J B Priestley
B
Samuel Pepys
C
George du Maurier
D
T. S. Eliot
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Q6. Who was the Philistine warrior, famous for his battle with David, the future king of Israel, as described in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament and, more briefly, in the Quran?

A
The Hulk
B
Titan
C
Goliath
D
The Joker
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Q7. The best known works of which sculptor who aroused hostility over the depiction of sexuality, are 18 large nude sculptures in 1908 for the British Medical Association building on The Strand, the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris, "Rush of Green" in Hyde Park, London, and "St Michael's Victory over the Devil" in Coventry Cathedral?

A
Peter Randall-Page
B
Richard Westmacott
C
Jacob Epstein
D
Leslie Harradine
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