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General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 7 August 2017

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Q1. What type of building is famous in Milan, Venice, Florence, Seville, Paris, Chartres, Amiens, Rheims, Cologne, Mainz and Trèves?

A
Railway station
B
Cathedral
C
Town Hall
D
Opera House
Select from the options above.

Q2. Which Austrian composer, whose list of more than 750 works includes symphonies, string quartets and trios, piano sonatas, marches, dances, overtures, masses and operas, received a DMus degree at Oxford University, England?

Note: This question was updated in October 2025
A
Engelbert Humperdinck
B
George Handel
C
Gustav Holst
D
Franz Joseph Haydn
Select from the options above.

Q3. A test developed in 1924 by R.L. Smith & G.E. Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method, is used to measure what?

A
The hardness of materials
B
The viscosity of oil
C
Radiation
D
Rolling resistance
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Q4. What event on 10 May 1933 was celebrated by Joseph Goebbels in Berlin, Germany, as a "a strong, great and symbolic deed"?

A
Windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues were smashed throughout Germany
B
The swastika flag was first flown by Adolf Hitler's National Socialist German Worker's Party (NSDAP)
C
University students throughout Germany burnt more than 25,000 books
D
The SS and Gestapo assassinated most of the Nazi's own military Brownshirts and others
Select from the options above.

Q5. Jeudi is the French word for which of these?

A
Game
B
Thursday
C
Basketball
D
Sow
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Q6. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse" was a famous line from which film?

A
Thunderball
B
Apocalypse Now
C
The Firm
D
The Godfather
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Q7. By the end of the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships which country held the top all-time Championships medal count?

A
Cuba
B
Spain
C
USA
D
South Korea
Select from the options above.
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