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General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 17 April 2025

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Q1. Whose trial in France in 1431 for heresy, subsidised by the English, was famously nullified by French courts and declared unjust and deceitful less than a decade later?

A
Geneviève
B
Olympe de Gouges
C
Héloïse
D
Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc)
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Q2. Where is the Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro designed by Italian engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli, and built in 1589?

A
Gibraltar
B
The entrance to Havana bay in Havana, Cuba
C
Rio de Janeiro
D
Montevideo
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Q3. What machine, that enables a person to breathe when the work of breathing exceeds their ability to do so, was invented by Phillip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw in 1928 and improved upon by John Haven "Jack" Emerson in 1931?

A
Electro-cardiograph
B
Incubator
C
Combine harvester
D
Iron lung
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Q4. We the People, which started a new direction in the wargame movement and is influential in current wargame design, is what kind of game?

A
Miniatures
B
Cards
C
Flip-book
D
Counters
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Q5. Who was the first centrefold in "Playboy magazine" in the first issue, in 1951?

A
Mae West
B
Betty Grable
C
Katharine Hepburn
D
Marilyn Monroe
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Q6. Who wrote and directed the Bafta Award winning short film "Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life" (1993)?

A
Peter Jackson
B
Peter Capaldi
C
Jane Campion
D
Chen Kaige
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Q7. What happens in the literary device known as zeugma?

A
Implying the positive by negating the negative
B
Applying the different meanings of a word and its homophone to the same word or phrase
C
A word or phrase is applied to multiple other words with a different meaning in each case
D
A word or phrase is contracted by omitting sounds or syllables
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