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General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 27 November 2009

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Q1. What is a key signature?

A
A Personal Identification Number used to enter a building
B
The sample signature that a bank uses to verify a customer's cheques
C
Combinations of sharps or flats at the beginning of each staff indicating the key of a composition
D
A specific pure DNA sample kept on permanent record by the FBI
Select from the options above.

Q2. In May 2009, suspected NAZI death camp guard John Demjanjuk was deported from where to Germany?

A
New South Wales, Australia
B
Chihuahua, Mexico
C
Ohio, USA
D
Berkshire, England
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Q3. The official World Cup for which sport, held every second year from 1986 to 2004 and annually thereafter, is hosted by a number of countries from Canada, USA, UK, multiple European countries, to Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland?

Note: This question was updated in May 2014
A
Track Cycling
B
Orienteering
C
Show jumping
D
Baseball
Select from the options above.

Q4. What famous picture was stolen from its frame in the Louvre in 1911, was recovered in Florence and returned in 1913?

A
The Night Watch
B
Mona Lisa
C
Guernica
D
Woman Going Downstairs
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Q5. What town 16 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, dominated by the Puritans in the 17th century, was famous for its witchcraft trials?

A
Philadelphia
B
Salem
C
Scranton
D
Providence
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Q6. Which French revolutionary, who was instrumental in the death of the King and the establishment of the Republic, was guillotined in 1794?

A
de Gaulle
B
Robespierre
C
de Maupassant
D
Cardinal Richelieu
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Q7. What device found on ships from the 18th century, consists of a telescope, a graduated arc and two mirrors, one of which is attached to a moveable arm?

A
Compass
B
Sextant
C
Quadrant
D
Theodolite
Select from the options above.
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