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Wildcard Quiz #82

Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 14 August 2010

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Q1. What word is used in the UK for chicken less than 28 days old at slaughter and usually weighing 400-450 grammes and in the USA for the Rock Cornish game hen, which is twice as old and twice as large?

A
Poussin
B
Poisson
C
Pontoon
D
Pleasante
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Q2. What is a claymore?

A
A second for Muhammed Ali
B
Musical instrument
C
Large excavating machine
D
Double-edged broad sword
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Q3. Which company bought the Daimler, Lanchester, Jaguar and Land Rover brand names in March 2008?

A
Tata Motors, India
B
Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea
C
Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
D
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW), Germany
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Q4. Which biblical personality was called Jekuthiel, Heber, Jered, Avi Zanoah, Avi Gedor, Avi Soco, Shemaiah ben Nethanel, Toviah, Levi, Heman, Mechoqeiq and Ehl Gav Ish?

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A
Jonah
B
Joshua
C
Moses
D
Daniel
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Q5. Rapidly boiling a liquid to make it thicker and more concentrated is called what?

A
Repleting
B
Reducing
C
Rebooting
D
Refracting
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Q6. According to the proverb, the way to hell is paved with what?

A
Good intentions
B
Good ideas
C
Good deeds
D
Golden rings
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Q7. Sid Baker, in his book "The Australian Language", suggests that a derogatory word used in Australasia to refer to a young person who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviour was a contraction of the name of which fictional race which appears in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift?

A
Lilliputian
B
Houyhnhnm
C
Brobdingnagian
D
Blefuscus
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