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Q1. The narrator of which book begins with the phrase "Call me Ishmael"?

A
Moby Dick
B
Don Quixote
C
The Call of the Wild
D
Huckleberry Finn
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Q2. What is the source of the company name "Xerox"?

A
An adaptation of the Greek word for "dry writing"
B
A marketing change to the word "zero", to mark the absence of printer's ink
C
The name of the company's founder
D
The village in Cyprus where the inventor of the process lived
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Q3. Emperor Napoleon III commissioned what monument from the sculptor Aimé Millet, which was installed in 1865 in Alise-Sainte-Reine, Burgundy, France?

A
Vercingétorix
B
Napoléon Bonaparte
C
Jeanne d'Arc
D
Emperor Charlemagne
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Q4. Three shepherd children had sightings of the Virgin Mary on the 13th day of 6 consecutive months in 1917, starting on 13 May, near a town called Fatima, which is in what country?

A
Portugal
B
Turkey
C
Cyprus
D
Italy
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Q5. Which of these is a disease caused by a lack of Vitamin B1, characterised by inflammation of the peripheral nerves with subsequent paralysis, dropsy and heart failure?

A
Malaria
B
Mumps
C
Beri-beri
D
Whooping cough
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Q6. Which alpine ski racer was World Cup champion in 1967 and 1968, won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing with a sweep of the three gold medals for downhill, giant slalom and slalom at the 1968 Winter Olympics, and then retired?

A
Jean-Claude Killy
B
Henri Oreiller
C
Gustav Thöni
D
Billy Kidd
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Q7. The 2019 Netflix biographical drama "The Two Popes" was written by which New Zealander, adapted from his own play?

A
Anthony McCarten
B
Greg McGee
C
Bruce Mason
D
Sam Neill
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